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Mar 13, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
People keep saying that Britain has a “noble tradition” of taking in refugees, citing the kindertransport as proof. Simon Heffer did it again on Radio 4 this morning. But here’s the problem.
The reason it was the *kinder* transport - the reason that it focused on children - was that Britain, like most countries across the world, refused to take in Jewish adults, even as Jews faced the threat of Nazi persecution.
Oct 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Have somehow contrived to have a bit of a pile-up of pieces in today's paper - so forgive the self-promoting thread, but here goes
For @GuardianBooks an essay on The Godfather, the novel rather than the film, and how it became a manual for power and politicians theguardian.com/books/2020/oct…
Sep 23, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A little scene from the Labour Party conference this evening (Thread)
I was talking on a street corner to @SadiqKhan. Two Labour Party members - white, middle-aged - approached him. They wanted to know why he’d attended the previous day’s @JewishLabour event.
Apr 30, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
He defended a mural depicting hook-nosed Jewish bankers playing Monopoly on the backs of the poor
He said two Jewish critics didn’t understand “English irony”
And now we learn that in 2011 he praised a book packed with anti-Jewish conspiracy theory thetimes.co.uk/article/d71e06…
The book says the banks and press are controlled by “a single and peculiar race”, that the Rothschilds are behind all wars - and yet Jeremy Corbyn praised that book as “brilliant”, “correct and prescient” and a “great tome”
Sep 23, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So @LenMcCluskey tells @JPonpolitics that if there is a people’s vote, remain should not even be on the ballot paper. It should be Theresa May’s deal vs no deal.
Then, says @LenMcCluskey, if May lost the referendum, there’d be a general election, Labour would win and be in place to negotiate a better deal. Which seems to mean that he would campaign in a referendum for No Deal.
Mar 26, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A few people have asked what, if anything, Jeremy Corbyn could do to defuse the current antisemitism issue. Here are some thoughts. (Thread)
He might consider giving a speech. But for such a speech to succeed it would need to do a few, very difficult things.
