Thread by @rabbisolomons

There is a lot of denial fluttering around on Twitter about the @EHRC report into #LabourAntisemitism.

The antisemite @JeremyCorbyn tried to exculpate himself after five years as leader of a increasingly antisemitic party.

Let me explain what our problem is.
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Jeremy has a lifelong record of racism against Jews. He is unaware of this, because he only accepts what people in his own circle say. They don’t tend to criticize him, and he does not accept most criticism, even from friends.
The racism is clothed in Palestinian solidarity.
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This goes back to the 1970s, so forgive me a little historical information.

Part of the Cold War waged by the Soviet Union involved violent terrorists like Lila Khaled and Bader-Meinhoff being busy hijacking planes and blowing up synagogues, killing Jewish athletes etc.
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They were one expression of the decision in 1967 Khartoum to deny Israel legitimacy, one front in the Soviet wooing of the Arab world.

@ Khartoum the PLO urged by te USSR said
No Negotiations
No Peace
No Recognition
Of Israel.

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The Soviet Union felt Zionism had usurped Marxist-Leninism as the ideal for Jews, and moved from supporting the nascent state of Israel to strong opposition.

3m Russian Jews were stopped from moving to Israel.

Their hatred of Zionism was motivated by ancient antisemitism.
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This was the country after all that invented the lie of the Proticols of the Elders of Zion, a diabolical plot to control the world.

The lie has been exposed many times as a fake, cooked up by Tzarist antisemites.

It was used by the Nazis as well, Jews as a bogeyman.
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This, combined with the innate antisemitism in Marxism (On The Jewish Question) meant that USSR was highly indisposed to Israel and Zionism, with antisemitic attacks disguised as antizionist.

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Fact is, a lot of people on the Left swallowed all that. They deny their ideology can possibly be antisemitic.
After all, they claim, they oppose all racism as part of the ideology.
Yet their ideology admits of no rival. Hence its undemocratic and antisemitic nature.
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When we hear Corbyn and chums condemning “antisemitism and all racism” they mean of the Far Right sort. They are the good guys, and cannot do wrong.

When confronted therefore w evidence, they either deny it or say that it is overstated or that it is a conspiracy.

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Of course it’s Jews doing that manipulating or conspiring. It’s Jews controlling the media.

The denial itself is antisemitic in nature and origin.

Next time you see this on Twitter, you’ll understand.

The Left is poisonously antisemitic.

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Today in London the rally for @jeremycorbyn is a March against Jews.

We aren’t bothered by Palestinian advocacy unless it becomes antisemitic. In fact most of us support there being two states.
It’s the antisemitism.

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