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24 Nov 20, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Michele Mc Avoy and I have 41 mutual friends on Facebook. Or we did the other day when she posted a status update complaining that I had accused her of #antisemitism. One of the lucky 41 sent me the screenshots. /1 ImageImageImage
Actually, I've never been a 'friend' of Michele, but I have seen her comments about Jews in numerous online Facebook discussions. Such as this thread about Jeremy Corbyn having the Labour whip withdrawn by Keir Starmer over his statement about the EHRC report on antisemitism. /2 Image
Some of the early comments were concerning, but Michele Mc Avoy decided to up the ante by claiming Starmer was "appeasing his puppet masters". Not surprisingly, someone asked her what she meant, to which I replied by saying she had a "track record of antisemitic comments". /3 ImageImageImageImage
Sadly, it's true. As her "puppet masters" reply hinted, Michele Mc Avoy regularly makes antisemitic remarks and shares material that supports racist narratives. She was a member of Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland Constituency Labour Party. I'm not sure if she still is. /4 ImageImageImageImage
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30 Aug
Maginn's article should be renamed "10 strawmen". It cites oversimplified claims about antisemitism in the Labour Party and refutes them. But he chose them BECAUSE they were inaccurate. Eg, Chris Williamson wasn't suspended over Nick Robinson's tweet. The tweet came after. >>
>> A better summary of the problems with Chris Williamson's conduct is provided by Daniel Sugarman's article below and that was written before Williamson's numerous antisemitic statements since he left the Labour Party. >> thejc.com/comment/analys…
>> As the EHRC report revealed, Labour's disputes panel found that Chris Williamson had "engaged in conduct online and offline that ... was grossly detrimental to the Party" and "may reasonably be seen to involve antisemitic sentiments, stereotypes and actions". >> Image
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Poor little innocent Chris Crookes has been branded an antisemite just because he wrote articles for neo-Nazi journals and websites claiming that the Nazis treated Jews well at Auschwitz. Here he is telling his oh-so-moving story on Labour Against the Witchhunt's Facebook page. ImageImage
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29 Jul
Show me evidence of Labour Against the Witchhunt being apologists for antisemitism, says Ben Sellers of Red Labour. I reply with evidence of LAW leaders doing exactly that and even opposing Holocaust deniers being reported to Labour HQ. Sellers blocks me and deletes the evidence.
For clarification, the thread in question was on Facebook not Twitter, hence Ben Sellers being able to delete my comments, which he couldn't do here.
After Labour NEC proscribed four groups, Sellers wrote about Marxists' contribution to the party. Andrew Warburton pointed out the action was being taken to expel apologists for antisemitism not Marxists, in particular Labour Against the Witchhunt. Sellers demanded evidence. >> ImageImageImage
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In his latest piece for The National, columnist Bruce Whitehead "bares all on why he quit" @UKLabour. The former member of Edinburgh West CLP presents a list of woes but somehow manages to avoid mentioning the party's #antisemitism crisis and his own role in exacerbating it. /1 Image
There were clues in @guardianletters last week where Whitehead objected to Labour's decision to proscribe four groups, three of which are known primarily for their antisemitism. He seems to have been especially keen on Labour Against the Witchhunt, which is probably the worst. /2 ImageImageImage
A search of Bruce Whitehead's social media soon reveals why. He claims that "Zionism stains the Jewish race with the blood of innocent Palestinian children". Whatever your view on events in Israel, it's clearly antisemitic to attribute blame collectively to all Jews. /3 Image
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26 May
Phil Wallis has just been telling people on Facebook that you can't be antisemitic if you are pro-Palestinian "because Palestinians are Semites". Turns out he is a Holocaust denier too. It looks like he's no longer a Labour member, but it's appalling that he ever managed to join. ImageImageImageImage
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And Mohammad Aleinein, who wishes "peace, love & prosperity to all", claims that "Zionists exaggerate the global antisemitism in order to encourage the Zionists who are in Palestine not to leave". But there's no need for exaggeration in describing the vile racism on his timeline. ImageImageImageImage
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Graham Hyslop OBE is outraged by recent suspensions in the Labour Party and offers "100% support" to @JVoiceLabour. Apparently, he too is a victim of the "witch-hunt", having resigned from the party after 40 years of membership due to allegations of #antisemitism. /1 Image
I took the opportunity to remind Graeme Hyslop OBE that he had been responsible for many antisemitic commentaries, to which he replied "nothing whatsoever about anything I do is either racist or antisemitic" and made a puzzling reference to my being "funded by a new employer". /2 Image
I first encountered Graeme Hyslop OBE in a thread about the @BoardofDeputies's 10 Pledges on JVL's page back in January, where he accused the BoD itself of being antisemitic and called for its "influence" to be "nullified". /3 Image
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