THREAD 1/4 - @simonmaginn, the fanatical Corbynite behind #ItWasAScam, is an antisemitic conspiracy theorist who claims the Chief Rabbi "installed" the Tories and the Board of Deputies are "ridiculous liars" and a "right wing lobby group" that controls the Labour Party.
2/4 - Like all hard-left antisemites, @simonmaginn reimagines the entire Jewish faith so that it conforms to his antisemitic agenda. According to him, the phrase "Jewish community" is antisemitic, as is recognising the indelible link between Judaism and Israel/Zionism.
3/3 - @simonmaginn wants people to debate him, but when any Jewish person tries, they are invariably subjected to a stream of malicious invective before being blocked. Here's someone politely explaining Zionism to him, but Maginn calls him an "obscene little monkey".
4/4 - @simonmaginn isn't just a fanatical Corbynite, he's also one of the malicious, obsessive antisemites who caused the #LabourAntisemitism crisis in the first place. Ironically, he epitomises the very thing that he spends his life denying.
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THREAD 1/12 - Simon Maginn (@simonmaginn), the fanatical Corbynite of #ItWasAScam fame, claims to have debunked the #LabourAntisemitism crisis. According to him, it was a conspiracy against Corbyn, so let’s examine his allegations…
2/12 - “Chris Williamson did not say Labour had been too apologetic for antisemitism”.
@simonmaginn is lying; Williamson said: “In my opinion, we’ve given too much ground, we’ve been too apologetic”.
3/12 - “Jackie Walker did not say Jews controlled the slave trade”.
Walker wrote on facebook that Jews were the “chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade”. However, she was expelled from Labour for a whole series of offensive, antisemitic outbursts.
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.
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