Seeing as many of the allegations are coming from within Labour itself, Margaret Hodge for example, it really isn't is it? Labour are being investigated, is that made up also?
That is some seriously skewed logic, it may disappear when he's gone for other reasons. He isn't the Labour Party, just the leader of it.This is not the case. It has been and continues to be a carefully coordinated smear campaign that Corbyn has had little choice but to endure. Nothing he said could have stopped it.
If in the unlikely event he becomes PM it will intensify even further, to even more absurd levels.
When he's gone, and not one minute sooner it will stop.
The fact of an investigation into a claim of antisemitism is not itself evidence of the truth of the claim.Seeing as many of the allegations are coming from within Labour itself, Margaret Hodge for example, it really isn't is it? Labour are being investigated, is that made up also?
There will be a degree of probable cause, a degree of 'evidence' for an investigation to commence. Obviously there is absolutely nothing to worry about as Labour is completely innocent of all charges & everything is made up by those nasty media people & anti JC MPs.The fact of an investigation into a claim of antisemitism is not itself evidence of the truth of the claim.
No, it's appalling.
Is IPSO a nasty anti JC thing too?There will be a degree of probable cause, a degree of 'evidence' for an investigation to commence. Obviously there is absolutely nothing to worry about as Labour is completely innocent of all charges & everything is made up by those nasty media people & anti JC MPs.
Not necessarily; some organisations are duty bound to investigate complaints, with only limited grounds not to do so. ‘No smoke without fire’ eh?There will be a degree of probable cause, a degree of 'evidence' for an investigation to commence. Obviously there is absolutely nothing to worry about as Labour is completely innocent of all charges & everything is made up by those nasty media people & anti JC MPs.
The complaint was against the Jewish Chronicle? They are just a small part in the wider conspiracy obvs.Is IPSO a nasty anti JC thing too?
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/...vist-s-accuracy-complaint-against-jc-1.493698
Not sure that is true in this case.Not necessarily; some organisations are duty bound to investigate complaints, with only limited grounds not to do so. ‘No smoke without fire’ eh?
The complaint was against the Jewish Chronicle? They are just a small part in the wider conspiracy obvs.
There will be a degree of probable cause, a degree of 'evidence' for an investigation to commence. Obviously there is absolutely nothing to worry about as Labour is completely innocent of all charges & everything is made up by those nasty media people & anti JC MPs.
Not necessarily; some organisations are duty bound to investigate complaints, with only limited grounds not to do so. ‘No smoke without fire’ eh?
The EHRC are obviously part of this wider conspiracy, it is the only logical conclusionThe EHRC has begun its investigation not on a whim, but because it has come across sufficient evidence to suspect that the law might have been broken. The criteria for such an investigation are set out in Equality Act 2006.
That is some seriously skewed logic, it may disappear when he's gone for other reasons. He isn't the Labour Party, just the leader of it.
The thousands of activists trawling the social media accounts of Labour Party members looking for anything even remotely anti-Semitic are not looking at the social media accounts of members of the other political parties.Seeing as many of the allegations are coming from within Labour itself, Margaret Hodge for example, it really isn't is it? Labour are being investigated, is that made up also?
The thousands of activists trawling the social media accounts of Labour Party members looking for anything even remotely anti-Semitic are not looking at the social media accounts of members of the other political parties.
The reason? They're all solidly pro-Israel.
Corbyn isn't, which is why it's his party that's been targeted. A very Israel-friendly, right-wing, pro-neoliberal media is very happy to help the rump of Israel-friendly, right-wing, pro-neoliberal Labour MPs - like Hodge, spread the smears and fan the flames.
As was made clear even to the Jewish leader of Labour, you don't get by easy if you support the Palestinian struggle:
From April 2015
How Ed Miliband lost the Jewish vote
This week, a poll for the Jewish -Chronicle found that 69 per cent of Jews intend to vote Tory next month, with Labour trailing on only 22 per cent. Moreover, while 64 per cent said David Cameron had the best attitude towards British Jewry, only 13 per cent picked Miliband as the best supporter of the community. The Jewish Chronicle poll found 73 per cent of Jews said the parties’ approach toward Israel and the Middle East was ‘very’ or ‘quite’ important in determining how they would vote, and by 65 to 10 per cent Cameron led Miliband on having the best attitude.
Community activists believe Miliband’s position on Israel has become such a sticking point that many Jews who traditionally vote Labour can’t bring themselves to do so. One said: ‘They have been forced to choose between their party and their support for Israel in a way they never thought they would be.’ Some have already made that choice: last autumn, Maureen Lipman declared that, for the first time in five decades, she wouldn’t be voting Labour. At the same time, Kate Bearman, a former director of Labour Friends of Israel, resigned her party membership.
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I'm sorry, but to argue that Israel has not been a massive issue for the same sections of Britain's Jewish community since literally the most pro-Palestinian MP in the country took control of Labour is just disingenuous.
The facts are there. Even Labour's Jewish leader lost support from the Jewish community over his relatively (in comparison to the Tories, Blair etc) balanced approach to Israel/Palestine.
Corbyn, long the champion of Palestinian rights, was a target from the word go. I said in 2015 he'd be relentlessly attacked in this way and it has come to pass. There is no mystery why it has happened, and it is nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
Because he's the subject of a witch hunt over it.So, to contract my earlier question, why is JC so obsessed by Israel?
He isn't.So, to contract my earlier question, why is JC so obsessed by Israel?
The thousands of activists trawling the social media accounts of Labour Party members looking for anything even remotely anti-Semitic are not looking at the social media accounts of members of the other political parties.
The reason? They're all solidly pro-Israel.
Corbyn isn't, which is why it's his party that's been targeted. A very Israel-friendly, right-wing, pro-neoliberal media is very happy to help the rump of Israel-friendly, right-wing, pro-neoliberal Labour MPs - like Hodge, spread the smears and fan the flames.
As was made clear even to the Jewish leader of Labour, you don't get by easy if you support the Palestinian struggle:
From April 2015
How Ed Miliband lost the Jewish vote
This week, a poll for the Jewish -Chronicle found that 69 per cent of Jews intend to vote Tory next month, with Labour trailing on only 22 per cent. Moreover, while 64 per cent said David Cameron had the best attitude towards British Jewry, only 13 per cent picked Miliband as the best supporter of the community. The Jewish Chronicle poll found 73 per cent of Jews said the parties’ approach toward Israel and the Middle East was ‘very’ or ‘quite’ important in determining how they would vote, and by 65 to 10 per cent Cameron led Miliband on having the best attitude.
Community activists believe Miliband’s position on Israel has become such a sticking point that many Jews who traditionally vote Labour can’t bring themselves to do so. One said: ‘They have been forced to choose between their party and their support for Israel in a way they never thought they would be.’ Some have already made that choice: last autumn, Maureen Lipman declared that, for the first time in five decades, she wouldn’t be voting Labour. At the same time, Kate Bearman, a former director of Labour Friends of Israel, resigned her party membership.
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I'm sorry, but to argue that Israel has not been a massive issue for the same sections of Britain's Jewish community since literally the most pro-Palestinian MP in the country took control of Labour is just disingenuous.
The facts are there. Even Labour's Jewish leader lost support from the Jewish community over his relatively (in comparison to the Tories, Blair etc) balanced approach to Israel/Palestine.
Corbyn, long the champion of Palestinian rights, was a target from the word go. I said in 2015 he'd be relentlessly attacked in this way and it has come to pass. There is no mystery why it has happened, and it is nothing to do with anti-Semitism.