You actually watched it wow.
I wouldn't feel justified in criticizing something I hadn't seen. But that was even worse than I expected, just pure propaganda - Sad music and weepy eyed interviewees juxtaposed with sinister grainy footage of Corbyn... The part that made me most angry though (other than the pathetic sob stories - If you can't take the heat get out of the damn kitchen, you're not made for politics) was when one said something along the lines of "If you say [x criticism] but replace 'Jews' with 'Israel' it's seen as acceptable". Not the point he was making but yes, in fact. Yes it
is acceptable. Because the difference between criticizing somebody for being Jewish and criticizing them for being a supporter of the current Israeli government is the same as the difference between criticizing somebody for being black and criticizing them for supporting the governments of Idi Amin or Robert Mugabe. You might be born Jewish, but nobody exits the womb a supporter of Israeli ethno-nationalism carrying a Benjamin Netanyahu placard. There are plenty of Jewish people who oppose his government and its actions both in Israel itself and the wider world, and I think equating their ethnicity with a political position they are in opposition to is far more horrible and racist than any of the accusations being leveled at Corbyn & Co.
There was even a part where Corbyn was criticized for supporting a single state solution... Yeah, supporting the idea of people of different races and religions living in peace and co-operating to govern the land they share is
totally more racist than the people it's apparently racist to criticize, who want to segregate people by race with a massive concrete wall,
deny their right to self determination and
forbid people from different backgrounds from marrying each other. That makes perfect sense. Northern Ireland is a lesson in how to actually resolve these kinds of ethnic conflicts and achieve peace, and it wasn't done by giving the Protestants absolute power and treating the Catholics as second-class citizens confined in military guarded enclaves and denying them a voice in their government. And we got there by talking to the IRA and Sinn Fein even though they advocated armed struggle and terrorism, which seems no different to me than the idea of engaging with objectionable Palestinian militants that Corbyn advocates. If you want peace you need
everybody on-side, including the people (on both sides) who are currently willing to blow up children. Because if you don't get them on side, they're not going to stop.
And perhaps people would be less likely to invoke "anti-Semitic tropes" if
the Israeli government's actions and
those of its supporters didn't
kinda sorta live up to them. Most reasonable people would presumably agree that using money to influence foreign governments and politicians is somewhere between corruption and treason. Except if the people doing it happen to be Jewish, in which case it's racist to criticize them for doing it, because people wrongly accused their ancestors of doing it, even thought they actually
are doing it, or something.
As for Tom Watson, he's gone from being someone I genuinely respected to a sycophantic tosspot establishment tool in record time. And he's not even in power yet. That's pretty impressive, in its own terribly disappointing way.
if you kept up with it its nothing new its to brodcast it to people who don't read all politics news like I do
That's part of what p*sses me off. The establishment media just will not let this go, any time the news cycle looks to be moving on and has the potential to actually talk about Labour's policies they drag all news about Labour and Corbyn back to being about anti-Semitism (I don't think it's a co-incidence that this is all over the news just after Labour made a decision on Brexit policy that has the potential to be popular). Because obviously, they're the establishment and every time anyone who might threaten their wealth or power gets anywhere near Downing Street, this is what they do. I honestly don't know who I hate more, the mainstream media or the people who are influenced by them.
