Thread by @TweetForTheMany

THREAD on the expulsion of Ken Loach 1/x

Many people are being thrown under the bus as the continuation of a wider purge of members and it’s worth reiterating too that in the last year 5 times as many (left wing) Jewish members have been investigated than non Jewish members.

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It’s not just about Ken Loach. So many angry people now - I saw a member yesterday who’d been in the Labour party 46 years now resigning.

The heart and soul had been ripped out.

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So apparently, if your politics align to Jewish Voice for Labour (the only all Jewish group in the Labour movement) and are critical of view of the JLM (which has many non Jewish members) then you’re labelled as anti Semitic. If you doubt this, look into some of the cases.

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I don’t deny that there had been genuine cases that breached IHRA and some of those cases were disgusting (and these members rightly expelled) but MOST were not motivated by “hatred of Jewish people”

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The accusation that Labour has ever been “full of anti semitism” (as in Jew hatred) is preposterous and abusive in itself.

Especially when many suspended and expelled align with and would consider Jewish comrades their friends.

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Consider that you understand the horrors of the Holocaust and the pain that Jewish people feel about the loss of their families - the evil of the Nazis.

Then imagine being called “a Jew hater” - it’s like being accused of being a paedophile.

Anti semitism is vile.

7/x Discussion point is whether much of what was being termed (by some) as “anti semitism” in the last number of years was the same as “Jew hatred” of the Nazis

The argument is that anti Semitic language leads to anti semitism - and I agree ☝️ but let’s break this down a bit..

8/x ... so case in point

Many of the accusations of anti semitism came from a group called LAAS (Labour Against Anti Semitism) a worthy task you might have thought. Nobody wants racists in their party!

But this example here says so much about “claims of rancid anti semitism”

9/x The hyperbole was intended to scare Jewish people and in doing so their (genuine) fears became news and the public would believe that Labour was “institutionally anti Semitic” (FOUND NOT TO BE, BY EHRC)

Get your head around this Tweet.

Personally I think this is evil.

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I’ll reiterate for clarity, there were cases of anti semitism on the left. I do not deny the issue.

I’ve seen them and I’ve reported and blocked some tweets.

But many were anonymous and could have been anywhere 🌎