{"id":178853,"date":"2018-08-03T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/03\/jeremy-corbyn-didnt-berate-a-holocaust-survivor-which-makes-him-an-antisemite\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T23:35:00","slug":"jeremy-corbyn-didnt-berate-a-holocaust-survivor-which-makes-him-an-antisemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/03\/jeremy-corbyn-didnt-berate-a-holocaust-survivor-which-makes-him-an-antisemite\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Corbyn DIDN&#8217;T Berate a Holocaust Survivor, Which Makes Him an Antisemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not joking here.&nbsp; The Blairites and the Tories claiming that the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/antisemitism-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-jewish-holocaust-survivor-abuse-a8474846.html\">Jeremy Corbyn did not verbally attack a Holocaust survivor makes him an antisemite<\/a>, which, even by the standards of British politics, is what one would technically called fakakte:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Oh no, look how antisemitic he is NOW. It turns out Corbyn sat on a platform with a Jewish Holocaust survivor, who compared Israel\u2019s behaviour to that of the Third Reich. Corbyn says he disagrees with him, but that\u2019s not enough, he should have decked the twat. The fact that Corbyn didn\u2019t even yell abuse at him proves he\u2019s antisemitic.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Because this man, Hajo Meyer, said that having been through his unimaginable trauma, he couldn\u2019t bear to see appalling acts carried out in the name of the Israeli state, and this seems to have led him to conclusions that aren\u2019t accurate. Maybe we should cut the bloke some slack, what with him having been at Auschwitz. But that would make you an ANTISEMITE, because if you care about Jews you tell Holocaust survivors: \u201cWe\u2019ve all had problems in life, mate, now shut your mouth and get your facts straight.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Luckily, other newspapers have been more measured, such as <i>The Times <\/i>which  asked: \u201cWhy can\u2019t Corbyn see antisemitism staring him in the face?\u201d It  is a puzzle why some people can\u2019t see antisemitism staring them in the  face. Sometimes antisemitism is much more subtle, such as when <i>The Sunday Times<\/i>  employed David Irving \u2013 but his antisemitism was discreet, having only  written a series of books in praise of Hitler and denying the Holocaust,  not like those people whose antisemitism stares you in the face.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And the Conservative Party are genuinely appalled by it all, which is why they would never allow their prominent members to associate with an anti-Semite. Instead Boris Johnson has been meeting Trump\u2019s ex-spokesman Steve Bannon, who gives his support to inclusive liberal groups such as the English Defence League, and wrote on his website: \u201cHell has no fury like a Polish elite American Jew.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bannon certainly wouldn\u2019t attract an antisemitic following. It\u2019s true that among the comments on his website are such messages as \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d, but it would take an expert historian to find traces of antisemitism in that.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there a problem with antisemitism in the Labour Party? <\/p>\n<p>Yes, of course there is.<\/p>\n<p>Is it worse than that of the UK as a whole, or Boris &#8220;Dances with Breitbart&#8221; Johnson ?<\/p>\n<p>F%$# if I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not joking here.&nbsp; The Blairites and the Tories claiming that the fact that Jeremy Corbyn did not verbally attack a Holocaust survivor makes him an antisemite, which, even by the standards of British politics, is what one would technically called fakakte: Oh no, look how antisemitic he is NOW. It turns out Corbyn &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-178853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}