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SMALL THREAD WITH ANNOTATIONS ON LABOUR’S FLAWED ANTISEMITISM WEBPAGE

1. Location of the small number of antisemites
2. Corbyn’s antisemitic transgressions and a problematic reference to the Rothschilds
3. Misrepresentation of Jews and antisemitism as an exclusively European phenomenon - something that is antisemitic and has antisemitic consequences
4. Falsely presents the Jewish impulse for Zion as simply a 19th/20th century phenomenon and as something that manifests only as a reaction to antisemitism
5. Ridiculous contradiction that allows antisemitic anti-zionism to continue unchecked in the Labour movement
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I want to make three points relating to Ash Sarkar’s use of the term “whiteness” as a means to attack Jewish campaigner against antisemitism, @TracyAnnO...
Jews, including members of Tracy’s family, were murdered within living memory explicitly because they were NOT regarded as white Europeans. White supremacists still kill Jews because they’re not seen as white. Some privilege.
Most Jews DON’T have white pigment. Jews come in all colours. Whiteness is irrelevant in understanding who the Jews are. Those who attempt to raise our “colour” only ever do so for toxic reasons. Ash feeling entitled to wrongly dictate to Jews their identity? Some privilege
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This is a thread I wrote a while back but never posted. I guess I felt a bit embarrassed cos it’s quite personal. I wanted to write something about Jewish pride as it had been a shitty year to be a Jew in Britain. Things seem to have reached a nadir. So sod it. Here it is...
I’m a Jew. And though there are those that hate me, I’m not defined by them. I define me.
I love being a Jew. I’m no better than anyone else & I’m no worse. But I love what I am, who I am and my crazy heart full of Jewish wonder. What is a Jewish soul? I don’t know - but mine feels Jewish. Is it any better than yours? No. Mine just feels Jewish and I’m in love with it
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Anti-Zionism is the HQ of today’s antisemitism and it’s from here that ancient tropes, lies and attitudes are repackaged and sent into the world to attack the Jewish people.

Anti-Zionism is antisemitism because to succeed it requires the following antisemitic acts:
The reversal of Jewish emancipation

Denial of Jewish right to self-determination

Denial of Jewish history

Denial of Jewish identity

Denial of Jewish right to defend themselves

Denial of Jewish right to be authors of their own experience

Finally:
...the denial of empathy towards jews who won’t relinquish these rights

These are the core antisemitic pillars of anti-Zionism

At heart they all seek to erase Jews from the world stage

Because the entire mission is antisemitic, antisemitic ideas will naturally not be rejected
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