The concept of Never Again has been twisted by anti-Zionists to remove its Jewish specificity. It was never a plea to end all suffering or a Lennonesque call to imagine no wars. It was a Jewish vow to ensure that Jews would never again be powerless & at the mercy of others. 1/x It was a lesson set by historical truth: that for centuries, Jews relied on the goodwill of host nations and were met with scapegoating, expulsions, pogroms, and, ultimately, the Holocaust. "Never Again" was a rejection of that cycle.

1/ I keep looking at this picture of kidnapped Jewish children and imagining what kind of brainwashing must have taken place in someone's mind that they think drawing a Hitler moustache was the correct thing to do. 2/ It got me thinking, under what conditions would I be prepared to condone or even celebrate a barbaric act of terrorism on a civilian population?

1/ Leftist fucking idiots who proudly claim they're anti-Zionists and in favour of a peaceful democratic one state solution between Israelis and Palestinians should reconsider what fucking idiots they have been all of their lives. 2/ Gaza is controlled by Hamas, a medievel Islamist death cult with the morals and aspirations no different to ISIS or Boko Haram. The Gazan street supports them, though it is Hamas that brutalises Palestinians, not the Israeli attempts to contain terror.

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In Corbyn's world view, only he understands the true horrors of war. Everyone else is gung ho and lacks humanity. But his outlook is morally bankrupt and dangerous Ask Holocaust survivors what the message was the Holocaust taught them. Overwhelmingly, it wasn't that wars are bad and should be avoided at all costs & it wasn't some sentimental John Lennon imagine bullshit....

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A thread about why Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the EHRC report was so wrong despite many people finding the “dramatically overstated by opponents” comment to be self-evidently true. But first, a little history to provide context to his comments. For much of what came to be known as the Labour antisemitism crisis there was a failure, not only to accurately describe how Labour had become antisemitic, but on how antisemitism should even be defined.

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The BBC's insistence that it's a fact that anti-Muslims slurs were in that recording, even when the Met found no such evidence underlines how the media cannot accept a narrative whereby Jews can be blameless victims of antisemitic attacks. A group of men sieg heil and attack Jews on a bus.
The BBC report this as alleged antisemitism, but a non-existence anti-muslim slur is not only reported as fact, but suggested it could have caused the attack.

https://twitter.com/jonnygouldpod/status/1467439531699884034

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I've listened to the the Oxford Street video several times and can train my ear to hear the phrase as both the English racial slur and the Hebrew call for help.
But hearing it in English creates several problems that cannot be ignored... 1) There are two sentences that are spoken. If you hear the English slur, then you have to conveniently ignore all other words that the speaker said afterwards. "Ze dachof" can be heard from the same speaker speaking in Hebrew.

There's a strange formulation of antisemitism where the antisemite takes aspects of Jewish history in which Jews were the victims, then imagines themselves as that victim whilst placing modern Jews as the perpetrator of that crime. It's a cruel formulation but it occurs often 1/6 The only Jew in this pic was a man who was killed by the Romans for wanting an independent Jewish state, yet if you Zoom in, note "Palestinian" written next to him. "Don't Let Them" indicates that the Jews persecuted Jesus and now they are persecuting Palestinians 2/6

It's become abundantly clear that Kier Starmer sees antisemitism as an obstacle to becoming elected rather than a moral issue he needs to deal with.

You may ask, so what? But there is a key difference between these two positions. If Starmer took up the cause of fighting antisemitism in Labour as a moral crusade, he would be dealing with it root and branch, implementing the independent processes that he's kicked into the long grass and publicly challenging the toxic mindsets that have warped Left politics.

The Jerusalem Declaration seeks to be a response to IHRA but it sets out to defeat straw-men arguments that IHRA never actually proposed 1/x IHRA, for example, does not claim it's antisemitic to say Israel has no right to exist, nor does it say it is categorically antisemitic to say Jews shouldn't have the right to self determination.
The word Zionism doesn't appear in IHRA even once...

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Hard left cranks are sharing this fake gotcha aimed at people who spoke out against insitutional antisemitism in Labour.

The implication is that they don't about antisemitism because they didn't mention Nazis protesting in London.

It's nonsense for several reasons... Firstly, most of those accounts explicitly condemned the Nazi thuggery.
Here's the Board of Deputies statement