Jeremy Corbyn spent an entire political career expressing sincere and explicit solidarity with terrorist organisations. Some of those terrorist groups were not even Muslim. Holding him to account for those views is not Islamophobic. 
Throwing the entire Muslim community under the bus to defend your favourite politician because you can’t address his own statements of support for proscribed terrorist groups with innocent blood on their hands is not a good look.
This is not the heckler, it’s about laundering the record of a politician’s indefensible public statements, and wielding anti-racism as a tool to deflect from legitimate critique. It’s insidious.
Guys, it’s okay to say “I like Jeremy Corbyn but he shouldn’t have called Hezbollah and Hamas groups ‘dedicated to social justice’.”
Refusing to have that conversation at all and attacking all those who do is not progressive or democratic.
Refusing to have that conversation at all and attacking all those who do is not progressive or democratic.
He said it on video, it’s not a “smear”, the truth is many of these people are either too intellectually lazy or too dishonest to have a full conversation about Jeremy Corbyn’s real position on these groups.
All this means is that the only people really addressing these issues are on the Right. If you refuse to engage with matters of substance then don’t act shocked that the space you have abandoned has been filled by your political opponents
