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I’ve been watching the response to @DavidLammy’s comments on #marr today. And you know what: I’m right there with him. In the past three years I have received more anti-Semitic abuse - emails, tweets, sometimes directly to me- than ever before. The question is... 1/
When do we just shrug it off? Say it’s just a lunatic fringe? the left are mired in a cess pool of anti-semitism they don’t know how to deal with (because not enough of the leadership fully disagree); the right has rampant islamophobia, petty nationalists retweeting 2/
...far right parties and referring to themselves using language stolen from the KKK. I don’t care that these people are elected. And don’t give me bollocks about their supporters feeling marginalised as an excuse for their racism. When even that notorious lefty....3/
Michael Heseltine says this Feels like the 1930s rebooted, something bad is happening. So when do i speak up? When immigrants are being murdered in significant enough numbers for it to register? When they get into power and start passing laws? When they come for my neighbours? 4/
When they come for me? 5/
Nah. Too late. @DavidLammy called it out today and good on him. And if we’re wrong and this isn’t dangerous shit, and everything’s fine then hooray. That’s great. I’ll take it on the chin. But forgive me if I sniff the stench coming from parts of Labour and from the ERG and 6/
From UKIP and Farage and the heartland of rampant brexiteers and say we must be worried. Because, after the years I spent reading and writing about the Holocaust, I can tell you this: even in 1933 nobody thought it would end at the gates of Auschwitz. Fini/
