Sorry but this an absolutely disgraceful tweet on so many levels. Not only to say that Jonathan Freedlans's concern for the Uyghars is fake but to say he'd approve of it. Genocide. A people herded into camps, cultural erasure, hair forcibly removed and sold. A Jewish journalist.
This was the (largely missed) piece he wrote during the siege of Aleppo for the Chronicle - whilst the absolute boy's favourite rag was calling it a "liberation" and Freedland's biggest critics, like the one in question, were swimming in a sea of Assad apologism and worse.
A Jewish journalist saying to his people, in their most read paper, that we should stop saying 'Never Again' on Holocaust Memorial Day because it doesn't mean anything anymore. Saying that in a mainstream Jewish paper is a big deal. Not to mention brave. thejc.com/comment/opinio…
To say his concern for the genocide in Xinjiang isn't real is grim: to claim it also has an ulterior motive is repugnant but to claim he'd APPROVE of it in another context... I mean, why not just call him a Nazi and have it done with it?
The depravity of it is astounding.
It's almost is if there's something about Freedland specifically that they hate so much... I'll have a think and see if I can work it out.
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1/ I'd have far less of a problem with the tiny number of Jews whom JVL represent being presented as an equal side of an internal Jewish disagreement if they actually got questioned about the key part they themselves have played in the antisemitism problem.
2/ Let's be clear about JVL: a very small Jewish org who have genuine extremists in their ranks. Two of them have recently gone full Q Anon, one of whom, last year, co-organised a Guardian letter in support of Chris Williamson which got pulled because -->
---> of the antisemitism of its' signatories. The other co-ordinator of the letter was Elleane Green. Someone so extreme she has attended far-right organised 'Keep Talking' events. A conspiracist collective which includes Holocaust deniers and fascists.
This morning someone attempted to post Sara Gibb's address in these replies...all because she told a joke about Corbyn. After which she was lied about, abused, harrassed, received antisemitic & misogynistic comments. 100's of tweets, all Corbyn supporters.
After she was bullied off Twitter, as she couldn't take the abuse anymore, she was called a coward for locking her account, then people started going to her blog to write comments, emails, attempts at doxxing. She's absolutely terrified.
All 'cos she told a joke about Corbyn.
Examples of what happened yesterday: one of them made up a story that Sara has done a theatre show and been abusive to People of Colour while she was there (she's never done a theatre show), then the person admitted they'd made it up, basically because she deserved it.
The difference between what Starmer has done with Wavertree CLP & the previous leadership’s approach to antisemitism: Rosie Duffield (in an ultra-marginal seat) was censured by 19 members of her CLP for attending #EnoughIsEnough demo & speaking at @JewishLabour conference.
It was that horrible summer and there was a bit of coverage about it. Corbyn got collared in an interview on BBC South East. His advisor, James Schneider, stopped the interview, as soon as the censure brought up, in order to spin it as being a motion involving only two people.
Two execs wrote it but 19 endorsed it - which they knew full well. This included Canterbury CLP member, Dylan Strain, who claimed that D. Baddiel wrote Tracey Ullman’s ‘anti-Corbyn’ sketch & Rosie Duffield was more like an MP for Israel because of her opposition to antisemitism.
- But Marlon why do you focus on the left so much when there's antisemitism everywhere?
- I guess because at the moment, on the British left, you get 2500 retweets for justifying why it's right to blame Jews for killing their own kind because of their opposition to antisemitism.
oh but that's just a crank, it's the cranks...
Sure, the biggest crank in Britain, David Icke, with over a million subscribers, doesn't get anywhere near 2500 retweets. Corbynite sticking it to the Jews? Guaranteed viral content. See also Mendoza's eye-popping traffic. Why?
The million dollar question that is swerved every time.
Never forget that in the 2017 local elections, 3 Labour candidates turned out to be Holocaust deniers and 4th who said Hitler was right about the Jews. All joined in 2015.
Never forget the leadership's own Head of Disputes attempted to quash the suspension of a Holocaust denier.
Never forget that over 2000 supporters of Jeremy Corbyn endorsed an antisemitic statement on FB which referred to Jews as a "very powerful special interest group" who must be opposed regardless of their "history and influence."
Never forget the degenerate cult-like Facebook forums bearing Corbyn's name which were little more than antisemitism grooming schools.
2/The book - a collection of essays - omits significant details (Raed Salah/Paul Eisen!) but JVL member Alan Maddison, along with Stern-Weiner, proceed to justify why antisemitic tropes should be up for discussion.
'Stereotypes Should Be Discussed Not Sanctioned.'
3/ The book also includes Norman Finklestein's 'chimera' of Labour antisemitism essay which goes further by explaining why several antisemitic tropes aren't in fact antisemitic tropes because they're true.