1/ Am thinking still about JVL & the disconnect between their aspirations for, let's say justice for Palestinians & the fairly primitive antisemitism expressed daily by the supporters who comment on their posts.
2/ I know that friends who have taken issue with some quite wild allegations against Jews on the JVL page have been blocked by the JVL admins & their comments deleted, which indicates that the admins ar somewhat watchful about stuff posted on their page.
3/ The names of many who comment are familiar to me from other antisemitic sites: Glyn Ting & Mahmoud Tashvishi; Tom Shaw, the Michaels Morgan & Murray, no room to cite them all here.
4/ I looked at the page of a Mr Peter Coan, who had said that Hitler learned nazism from Jews. As you see, he is a great believer in doing good & opposing racism, even quite a spiritual person. Such things can happen. 
5/ Unlike my friends'comments, Coan's don't get deleted or opposed. It may be that the JVL admins find that anything said against Israel is acceptable, even if it involves Shoah revisionism.
6/ Indeed, Ken Livingstone was a cause célèbre with JVL, as in anyone banished from Labour for antisemitism. Prof Miller of Bristol Uni was so fortunate as to get a supportive letter from JVL. They don't care for Tony Greenstein but that could be a personality thing.
7/ He isn't everyone's cup of Lapsang Souchong. No such aversion to Greg Hadfield, however.
8/ and they've always stood shoulder to spectral shoulder with Chris Williamson.
9/ Naturally they came to the defence of Jackie Walker.
10/ Full disclosure: I know people who know individuals involved with JVL who, they say, are very nice.
Maybe so, but if so, why do they allow so much drek to trail in their wake?
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Maybe so, but if so, why do they allow so much drek to trail in their wake?
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