Thread by @JVL_Watch

.@uklabour *THREAD* 1/11 Asa Winstanley writes for the notorious ‘Electronic Intifada’. He has now been suspended from the Labour Party for antisemitism.

But it came as a shock to many that he was even a member, because he is known for...

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- arguing there was an alliance between zionists and Nazis

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- repeatedly attacking people raising antisemitism

- accusing @jewishlabour of working on behalf of Israel and maliciously sabotaging the Labour Party on their behalf

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- attacking and mocking the IHRA definition of antisemitism

- accusing victims of Labour antisemitism of fabricating their claims
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5/11 Winstanley is so extreme that he attacks anyone who isn’t aligned to his fanatical level of conspiratorial antisemitism denial. That even includes Jon Lansman, Momentum and....

6/11 Owen Jones! Winstanley’s articles on British antisemitism are subtitled under the sinister category ‘lobby watch’. He views any admission of Labour antisemitism as a plot on behalf of people loyal to a foreign power. And even Owen Jones and Momentum are part of it.

7/11 In Winstanley’s warped reality, people mentioning antisemitism in the Labour Party are the real racists, and they’re out to maliciously ‘smear anti-racists’.

8/11 Accusing the victims (and their supporters) of being the perpetrators is Winstanley’s tactic. So a high profile Jewish person highlighting Labour antisemitism and criticising Winstanley’s disgusting inversions of reality, is labelled ‘anti-semitic’.

9/11 By now it should be clear that Asa Winstanley is no more than an antisemitic propagandist. But even more concerning is his popularity among Labour Party officials and supporters. He has 25.6k followers, so is influential in his ‘scene’.

10/11 Which leaves just one question. He is useful to the Labour Party leadership, but how can they defend the indefensible? How can you legitimise this level of antisemitic propaganda?

11/11 With the support of a tiny group of extremists and antisemites called JVL. They exist to whitewash Labour racism by giving antisemites the ‘Jewish’ seal of approval. It’s why @jeremycorbyn calls them ‘good people’.