Thread by @omgstater

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...

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...

Britain has a dark history of antisemitism which is under-reported, mainly because WWII antisemitism eclipses it and possibly because it is an uncomfortable truth. Follow @EquusontheBuses for fascinating expert insight...

My friends daughter was proud of her Jewish heritage. She no longer tells people, because non-Jewish students at her university ask if she is a ‘good Jew’ or a ‘bad Jew’...

And demand to know her views on Palestine so she can be evaluated by them.

Thanks for that Labour (via the communist Party and National Front)...

Life for the diaspora in Britain increasingly feels like running a gauntlet of hate.

Labour and Universities have combined to groom a generation of racists. These people will become politicians and shape government policy...

Ken Loach wasn’t celebrated at @SPC_Oxford because of freedom of speech. He was celebrated because Jews don’t matter.

Jews don’t matter and never did in a society where we have traditionally been treated as second class citizens at best. So let’s at least be honest