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There is a precedent for the left dissembling on LGBT+ rights to opportunistically appeal to a religious community: SWP leaders said they wouldn’t allow gay rights to become a “shibboleth” in their 2004 electoral alliance with socially-conservative Muslim community groups...
...but the Skwakbox left’s fawning over the Charedi community and boosting of figures like Stern feels different. It’s not just about short-term electoral opportunism, it’s a conscious effort to boost the most socially reactionary section of the Jewish community as more >
< authentically Jewish, implying that the Jewish members of Labour raising issues of antisemitism, who are mainly secular, reform/liberal, or modern Orthodox Jews, aren’t “really” Jewish. It’s absolutely toxic.
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