1/5 @DanWei55 is one of the minor academics who use conspiracy-based rhetoric (‘hasbara’, ‘Israel lobby’ etc) to incite the virulent form of antisemitic anti-Zionism which currently threatens the well-being and safety of Jewish students. @VCJohnVinney@CST_UK@LordJohnMann
2/5 Antisemites like @DanWei55 bait Jews with offensive references to the Holocaust, and are well aware of the hurt that this causes. He habitually denies Jewish primacy (a form of Holocaust denial) and even claims that @Baddiel uses the Holocaust in bad faith as a ‘grift’.
3/5 @DanWei55 has a long history of publicly expressed antisemitism, and was advised by his department @bournemouthuni to delete a previous account which featured a continuous stream of conspiracy based, antisemitic incitement.
4/5 @DanWei55 is firmly embedded in the eco-system of antisemitism in this country. He even writes for the antisemitic hate-site ‘Dorset Eye’, run by the notorious antisemite Jason Cridland. dorseteye.com/anti-semitism-…
5/5 @DanWei55 promotes a world view which, at its core, embraces the premise that Zionist Jews are a conspiratorial collective which acts against the common good, and should automatically be excluded from progressive circles. Jews are being 'othered', just like in 1930s Germany.
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Hard-left antisemitism has created a contradictory reality for Britain’s Jews. We’re invisible but also too visible, centre stage but still on the margins, assimilated but ‘other’ and strong but also insecure. This thread will analyse the origins of this unsettling dynamic. 1/6
Left-wing antisemites obsessively indulge their fantasies of moneyed Jewish privilege and nefarious 'Zionist' influence - all of which is predicated on their baseless premise that Israel is uniquely evil. It's a myopic, collective mindset that borders on malevolent hysteria. 2/6
We are gaslighted by left-wing politicians, journalists, media personalities and organisations (eg, JVL) which exist solely to legitimise and redefine antisemitism. These people fan the flames of antisemitism, and have created the intellectual environment in which it thrives. 3/6
2/5 She has previously been the subject of a complaint about her behaviour, and has a history of posting antisemitic comments on twitter, many of which have now been removed.
3/5 She abuses Jewish MPs who have been subjected to antisemitic abuse; she accused Luciana Berger of using antisemitism in bad faith and not caring about racism and sneered at Margaret Hodge for being “rich” enough to take legal action against the Labour Party in court.
2/5 The keynote speaker will be Ilan Pappé, a radical anti-Israel extremist who travels the world advocating the eradication of Jewish national self-determination.