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Behind the Aegis

(53,979 posts)
Wed Dec 18, 2019, 01:34 AM Dec 2019

(Jewish Group) More anti-Israel stalwarts blame Zionists/Jews for Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in Britain

More anti-Israel stalwarts across Europe are coming forward to blame the Jewish state and Zionism for the defeat of Britain’s Labour Party in last week’s elections.

Chris Williamson, a former Labour lawmaker and ally of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, added his voice to the choir in a video he posted Tuesday on Twitter.

“A hostile foreign government has mobilized its assets in the UK – which Israeli diplomats call their ‘power multiplier’ – in an attempt to prevent a Corbyn-led Labour government” from being elected in Thursday’s vote,” said Williamson, who left the party earlier this year after saying it had been too apologetic about its anti-Semitism problem.

To “normalize Zionism” in Labour, the assets had been “using faith organizations, many of them charities, to promote the anti-Semitism narrative,” he added.

Jenny Tonge, an independent lawmaker who said in 2017 that anti-Semitism was rising because Jews were not criticizing Israel enough, wrote on Facebook that the British chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who accused Corbyn of mainstreaming anti-Semitism in Labour, “must be dancing in the street. The pro-Israel lobby won our General Election by lying about Jeremy Corbyn.”

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(Jewish Group) More anti-Israel stalwarts blame Zionists/Jews for Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in Britain (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Dec 2019 OP
Haven't come across anyone lauding Chris Williamson in a while T_i_B Dec 2019 #1
Gee maybe there is a lesson MosheFeingold Dec 2019 #2
Labour's anti semitism issues are only part of their problems T_i_B Dec 2019 #3

T_i_B

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1. Haven't come across anyone lauding Chris Williamson in a while
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 02:52 PM
Dec 2019

But I have seen a heck of a lot of Labour folk trying to explain the calamitous general election result by blaming absolutely everyone but themselves

MosheFeingold

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2. Gee maybe there is a lesson
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 09:48 AM
Dec 2019

For the liberal parties

That coddling antiemetic assholes and failing to call them out just because they are nominally part of your political party is a poor election strategy.

Let alone letting them have plum appointments

Looking at you, Nancy.

T_i_B

(14,746 posts)
3. Labour's anti semitism issues are only part of their problems
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 09:44 PM
Dec 2019

Although the constant anti semitism scandals have served to totally undermine Labour's anti racism credentials.

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