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@davidjrosenberg
Sep 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
As a Jewish member of the Labour Party I thank @Keir_Starmer for his New Year message, but his claim that he has "been... establishing new ties right across the Jewish community and its organisations" is simply untrue. jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/sir-keir-starm… via @JewishNewsUK
At the GE 2019 there were 100s of left-wing Jews canvassing for Labour especially in marginals. They were members of @JVoiceLabour @JewishSocialist @jewishsolidAct @NaamodUK and @_JFJFP . As far as i know @Keir_Starmer has not had meetings with any of these organisations.
I wrote to him personally in early April urging him to do so. My letter was ignored for 2.5 months. After reminding him about it I got a brief "one size fits all" form letter from his office staff which answered none of my nine specific questions or requests. I wrote back to say
I was "disappointed, angry, insulted and patronised" to receive this form letter” and pointed to 4 of the 9 specific questions I especially wanted answers to. His office staff wrote back: "please accept my apologies that you are unhappy with the response." And that was that.

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Jan 11
After Israel's government declared war in response to Hamas massacre 7 October, it moved swiftly to ban anti-war protests within Israel. But the authorities could not sustain that. Protests have taken place but have faced violence from the police and far-right activists. 1/6
They continue to grow as the death toll rises massively in Gaza, and pogroms continue in the West Bank. At the end of December protests took place within Israel at several locations. In Tel Aviv crowds were chanting "Bibi, Bibi, you can't hide, you're committing genocide." 2/6
That is very significant today as IJC hearings begin in the Hague where the South African Gov't is bringing a case of genocide against the Israeli gov't. Jews in several countries who have taken to the streets to protest against the war will wish them well in this effort. 3/6
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Dec 26, 2023
So I watched Stephen Fry’s “Alternative” Xmas broadcast yesterday hoping for some enlightenment, but was left wondering what it was an alternative to, and what a missed opportunity it was. 1/12
A Christmas message focusing on rising racism against a range of communities, in a year when leading politicians have ratcheted up rhetoric against refugees and extended that to attacks on multiculturalism itself would have been a welcome alternative. 2/12
As would a message that gave a sense of the parallel rises in antisemitism and Islamophobia, here, much of it with reference to, or exploiting the asymmetric “war” taking place in Palestine, and the asymmetric reporting of it. 3/12
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Aug 8, 2023
Not impressed by David Miller's recent posts about “imaginary Judeophobia”; Jews being “over-represented" in Europe and America (N&S) "in positions of cultural, economic and political power” and being “in a position to discriminate against actually marginalised groups” 1/6
He casually removes antisemitism from “actually existing racism”+seems to homogenise and stereotype Jews as if they have a common and nefarious political agenda. He seems to ignore socio-economic differentiation among Jews, and their political, cultural and ethnic diversity. 2/6
I think about Jewish friends who are shop assistants, receptionists, cab-drivers, social workers, teachers, barbers, hairdressers, or unemployed, and wonder how much political and economic power they have and how they use it collectively. 3/6
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Jan 12, 2023
I made the mistake last night of watching Kendall v Corbyn on Peston. Corbyn answered questions directly and assuredly, Kendall just threw insults, pathetically trying to play the bully. She displayed the Labour Right's deeply dishonest, phoney war on antisemitism 1/7
Objective commentator know this claimed "war on a/s" was nothing of the sort. It was a factional war against the Left by the LP Right. They feared Corbyn's domestic agenda to redistribute political+economic power +challenge media monopolies as much as the Tories feared it. 2/7
The number of Jewish LP members investigated + disciplined for alleged "antisemitism" under Starmer, effectively for holding a different political view as Jews to the right-wing Board of Deputies, or the pro-Tory Chief Rabbi, simply proves the dishonesty of this campaign. 3/
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Oct 17, 2022
When I left the Labour Party in February this year I likened the methods of its internal regime to those of a right-wing dictatorship. The blocking of @emmadentcoad from standing as Labour's candidate in Kensington suggest this might be an understatement. 1/4
Emma's dogged campaigning for "the many" for 20 years in Kensington produced an astonishing result, when she won the Tory stronghold in 2017. Her care and support for the community who endured and survived the Grenfell catastrophe a week after the election, was phenomenal. 2/4
She would still be the MP today were it not for the vanity+stupidity of the Green Party who stood against Emma in 2019 as she defended a wafer thin majority. They knew that votes they gained could only help the Tories. Emma DC lost by 150 votes; the Greens got more than 400. 3/4
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Sep 25, 2022
Message for @Keir_Starmer at Labour Conference 2022. Please don't treat us to more nauseating, self-serving, bad faith comments about how, under your leadership, the party has challenged antisemitism.
It hasn't. 1/9
The one Jewish woman elected to the NEC by LP members has just been suspended on spurious grounds. Many Jewish members are under investigation, or have been disciplined for having legitimate, self-determined views on Israel-Palestine+ the right wing Jewish establishment. 2/9
You have consistently ignored requests to engage with Jewish members outside a select few right-wingers you agree with. Your role in all his has been a *shonde* (disgrace). If the LP wanted to do something positive about a/s in society + racism within the party, it could: 3/9
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