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2/5 Meanwhile, JVL member David Rosenberg wrote an article in the Morning Star. He was upset on #HMD2019 because the word ‘shoah’ is being used, which is Hebrew. 
3/5 He claims zionists had ‘an extremely patchy record of opposing antisemitism and Nazism in the 1930s.’ This Historical fantasy puts Nazis and their Jewish victims on an equal footing. In Rosenberg’s story, Jews are culpable in their own genocide
4/5 And Rosenberg casts doubt on the ‘Zionist’ idea that Jews would had been saved from the Holocaust had Israel existed. It’s a fact that many Jews had nowhere to escape to, and that a Jewish state would have been the one place to take them in
5/5 JVL cynically used #HMD2019 to downplay Labour antisemitism and revise details of the Holocaust to suit their own warped agenda.
