It’s weird to watch the news from the UK. People protest the deaths of innocent folk, including huge numbers of children in Palestine, and they’re accused of being anti-Jewish or pro-terrorist. And that’s not to say racist jerks don’t exist because they are out there in large numbers. But it’s fairly clear watching a protest what the protesters are opposing.
A while back, Labour was accused by a number of individuals and organisations to have a culture of anti-semitism, largely as a result of then leader Jeremy Corbyn’s long standing support of the Palestinian people and criticism of Israel.
Although there was never really any discovery of widespread anti-semitism found (or anything beyond a few individuals) the pro- zionist lobby is so loud and has such clout in the media that they were forced to undertake a sort of exorcism with people expelled from the party (though not from Parliament) and some policies and internal investigation bodies setup to try and stop it.
Now we’ve reached the point that the party is so tainted by the idea that they’re all a bunch of raving anti-semites that anything that suggests the government is in any way favouring anything over Israel or making any form of criticism of the country is leapt on by their critics and there’s a fresh whirlwind of “Starmer hates the Jews”.
Even Farage has realised this and constantly bashes the government for being anti-semitic and hating Israel to the point where even the nazis in this country chant pro- Israeli slogans.
Not to mention that many within the Labour party, the neo-liberals, used antisemitism to perform a coup and cull of the socialists.
I’d say it’s worse than that. If someone looks at a protest opposing genocide and they take from that that they’re antisemitic, then they’re essentially starting from a position of “Jews = genociders” which is pretty fucking antisemitic.
It’s not just the UK. Statements from Netanyahu, Israel as a whole, and pro-Israel groups constantly portray any and all criticism of Israel as anti-semitism.
Probs shouldn’t genocide people.
Yup. It really is that simple.
ah so you’re ok with jews being confused with zionists
Well, if our “terror laws watchdog” is under the control of a foreign far-right government currently committing a genocide, then it needs replacing.
I’m sure they are; that’s kind of bound to happen when you explicitly make an ethnostate. Citizenship of that state is linked to being part of that ethnicity.
Half the things mentioned in the article aren’t “targeting Israelis”: “death to the IDF” is a chant targeting the military organ carrying out Israel’s genocide. “Globalise the intifada” is a poor slogan as “intifada” is understood to mean “terror campaign” in the West, but it means an uprising.
Fucking Guardian - it’s paragraphs before they get around to calling this a “right-leaning thinktank”. An oligarch funded hate machine with about as much legitimacy in the public space as a blackshirt march.
If Israelis are a vehicle for Jewish hated, what are they to Palestinians…?
