Finkelstein is no conspiracy theorist.Finkelstein is exactly the sort of political outlier/conspiracy theorist I’d expect you and MaxFlinn to fawn over, and just the type the rest of us view with a considerable degree of skepticism! His Wikipedia entry is a very interesting read, and I’d strongly suggest folk did so before wasting time on RT videos or placing any weight on his preachings. File under: ‘a slightly different George Galloway’.
If the panorama prog was impartial, why did it not interview any JVFL members?And by association the woman from Jewish Voice For Labour? All voices that speak out in support of Corbyn?
If you've given up on trying to learn the truth, no doubt many others have too...
I’ve not “given up on learning the “truth””, I just feel I have vastly better options available to me than a fractured divided party where neither its MPs, Lords, membership or electorate are in even remotely the same page. That’s before we even get to the likes or Hoey, Mann, McCluskey and all the other absolute deal-breakers for pro-EU anti-nationalists such as myself. Labour are an utter joke I want no part of!
Good point. That would appear to be basic balance to me. Must say though, I haven't watched it yet.If the panorama prog was impartial, why did it not interview any JVFP members?
Now that’s what I call robust evidence! Steve Bell is as good as the voice of GodHere's the Steve Bell cartoon the Guardian censored
RT holds the OFCOM record for ....
Lots of shooting the messenger on here coming from people who condemned shooting the messenger when it came to the Panorama programme
Centre left media closing ranks:
https://twitter.com/samfoster99/status/1152139989637128192?s=21
Wild leftist Simon Wren Lewis spiked by New Statesman for suggesting that centre left might consider getting behind Corbyn, given that he’s the only realistic means of stopping Johnson. Bit close to the bone I guess.
The Steve Bell cartoon above nails it. There is a very well funded right wing collective interest being brought against the left.Centre left media closing ranks:
https://twitter.com/samfoster99/status/1152139989637128192?s=21
Wild leftist Simon Wren Lewis spiked by New Statesman for suggesting that centre left might consider getting behind Corbyn, given that he’s the only realistic means of stopping Johnson. Bit close to the bone I guess.
Next week the Labour lords are planning a vote of no confidence in Corbyn. They don't have any alternative plans for dealing with antisemitism, they don't have any alternative policies or strategies, and they don't have an alternative candidate. It's strictly a wrecking operation designed to establish an equivalence between the far right and the only force capable of taking it on. The whole thing is utterly reckless.Another comment I received is that there are no degrees of racism. I think this is nonsense. Once again it is useful to compare the two main parties. Both leaders are accused of being racist. With Corbyn the evidence amounts to things like not recognising antisemitic tropes in a painting, not mentioning someones antisemitism in an introduction to a book, or being associated with antisemitic people as part of his support for statehood for Palestine. With Johnson we have someone who has compared Muslim women in a certain dress to letterboxes (and those are not his only racist slurs), and who has supported a racist policy: a hostile environment that saw the deportation of members of the Windrush generation. Are these really equivalent?
Or let us look at the two parties. The Labour party has been accused at operating an inefficient disciplinary process for antisemitism or worse, of leadership interference in this process. The Conservative party routinely lets those exposed of making racist comments back in after a few months of ‘re-education’, and has just voted for a leader who makes racist remarks because most members show racist tendencies (to put it too mildly). Are these really equivalent?
Going beyond the UK, is telling non-white Congresswomen born in America to go back home to the crime infested countries they came from the same as anything Corbyn has done? The thing about the antisemitism in the Labour party is it involves no policy against Jewish people and it involves no language by members of the Labour leadership team against Jewish people. Some Labour party members are antisemitic, but there is no evidence that this number is unusually high compared to the population at large. When people try to equate antisemitism within the Labour party to racism in the Tory party they ignore these points.
that is irrelevant when it is an interview between two people with outstanding reputations which we are able to watch and make up our minds about.
unless of course, you think authoritarianism is the way to go.
it's not even shooting the messenger. it's shooting the person who rented a horse to the messenger.
Wild leftist Simon Wren Lewis spiked by New Statesman for suggesting that centre left might consider getting behind Corbyn, given that he’s the only realistic means of stopping Johnson. Bit close to the bone I guess.