Thread by @davidgraeber

leaked from Meltwater (corporate media monitoring tool). Mentions of phrases in press:

2015
Labour Anti-Semitism
1 result
Conservative Anti-Semitism
0 results
Tory Anti-Semitism
0 results:

2016
Labour Anti-Semitism
2.52k results
Conservative Anti-Semitism
0 results

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2017
Labour Anti-Semitism
93 results
Conservative Anti-Semitism
0 results

2018
Labour Anti-Semitism
6.79k results
Conservative Anti-Semitism
0 results

2019
Labour Anti-Semitism
3.82k results
Conservative Anti-Semitism
0 results
Tory Anti-Semitism
1 result

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bear in mind these results come despite the fact early polls showed Tory voters were more likely to agree with #antisemitic statements & one prominent Tory minister, now PM, personally wrote an antisemitic book 3/

another interesting feature is the sudden muting of the AS issue in 2017, just to jump back again when an election seemed immanent. Why? My interpretation at the time had to do with the Tories instructing their MEPs to vote against censoring Orban in European Parliament 4/

Orban was being censured specifically for #antisemitism & the Tories told their MEPs to vote against the censure; it would have been difficult at that point to make a point about Labour being "institutionally" AS when the Tory leadership had made such an official decision 5/