(THREAD 👇) In my second part of “stuff Jews constantly get accused of”, I’m talking about us being labelled “right wingers”....
If Jews mention antisemitism on the left, we are commonly accused of being right wing.

It is an accusation of Jews acting in bad faith due to a political agenda. This accusation mirrors the racist stereotype of the lying, conspiratorial Jew...
Of course, racism isn’t political. And using more racism to deny it and silence the complainants doesn’t just prove the point, but exacerbates it...
Tribal loyalties on the left are considered far more important than admitting to racism issues within it. So they try to silence “dissent” from Jews by using malicious accusations...
The “Right wing” accusation is frequently accompanied by “Zionist” as a pejorative term. Zionist is someone who agrees with the concept of Jewish self determination, and is nothing to do with political views....
For example, I know a Jewish socialist from a communist family who is a Zionist, and so was his family....
But it was the Russian communist regime who politicised antisemitism, and linked it to Zionism which it made into a crime.

Purges such as The Doctors Plot and the execution of Slansky with many others was an excuse to kill loyal Jews. The crime levelled at them was “Zionism”...
Antisemitic material thinly disguised as being about Zionism was pumped out by the Russian state, and even became mandatory reading....
Jews were erased from the Holocaust and erased from being victims of the Nazis.

Instead Jews were accused of being collaborators with the Nazis - far right. Accused of dual loyalties on behalf of a foreign power....
The left are deeply unoriginal in this regard. The old white cranks you see spreading these ideas were the recipients of this Nazi inspired Russian propaganda in the late 60s....
So those accusing Jews of being “far right Zionists” is nothing new at all. They do it because prefer Jews silent, compliant and without a safe space....
These accusations Jews regularly get thrown at us are the same old racist stereotypes and the same old propaganda from antisemitic regimes. You can read part one here
And a nice Ken Loach example pops up here

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12 Feb
I find it difficult to find the words to express how angry I am about this Ken Loach saga.

Why is ‘free speech’ in practice used to allow antisemites to speak at universities? I don’t see other types of racists given a platform without so much as a murmer...
Loach is celebrated by society despite his anti-Jewish incitement and Holocaust revision.

Instead of solidarity, the Jewish students who complained were confronted with gaslighting and sneering racism by their own College... Image
And where the hell are the anti-racist left in all this? Almost completely silent (when they aren’t supporting Loach), once again exposing the truth of where their ‘solidarity’ extends...
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27 Jan
Some people claim the Holocaust didn’t have a Jewish specificity.

Sadly they are wrong. Jews wish they weren’t wrong, but to our cost we know they are.

These are the facts. Stop bothering relatives of the victims of genocide on the day we remember them.
Attempts to de-Judaise the nature of the Holocaust are an insulting “all lives matter”.

They are motivated by racism or the need to accommodate a racist viewpoint which deliberately glosses over the facts
“It could have been you - we are all different”. No, it probably couldn’t have been you if you aren’t Jewish. That’s the point.

And if you don’t support the Jewish community against racism today, then you have not learned a thing about the Holocaust
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27 Nov 20
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Across the country Labour members are supporting Jeremy Corbyn and downplaying the EHRC report, against the official instructions of the party. So far:

•32 CLPs
•4 trade unions
•1 affiliate (Young Labour)
•28 Labour MPs@
....
This proves two things:

1) antisemitism is still deeply entrenched across the Labour Party.

2) The Labour Party is far from being a safe space for Jewish people
....
The poison remains and the patient is still sick. The hostility is if anything now deeper.

Branches, MPs and Unions are openly rebelling against the Labour leadership for the right to dismiss anti-Jewish racism....
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24 Oct 20
(THREAD) These are all replies to one post by a Jewish student complaining about a professor who spreads explicitly antisemitic conspiracies....
When a Jewish student complains about racism being taught at her university, it is ‘McCarthyism’.

“Where is the freedom of speech of the person freely spouting antisemitism, I mean anti-Zionism?” they ask...
Jews don’t know about antisemitism! Jonathan has his own definition and coincidentally, it doesn’t reach his threshold. There’s no assault or destruction of property so what’s the problem?!....
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13 Sep 20
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Yesterday my Great Aunt Rachel died at the grand age of 100. Her family and almost everyone she knew were murdered. She fled with her life and nothing else.....
Everything she knew was destroyed - an entire culture. She always considered herself German but her countrymen had other other ideas. She escaped to safety in our historic homeland: Israel....
Survivors fled to Israel because people proved they cannot be trusted not to turn on Jews.

And if it was left to ‘anti-zionists’, jews would still be rootless, and slaves to the fickle whims of non-Jews....
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