Come and meet your Jewish neighbours
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
We repost David Rosenberg’s Morning Star article in which he compares the so-called Jewish community’s outrage against Jeremy Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism with its pusillanimous response to the genuine, open white-supremacist antisemitism of Donald Trump.
We also repost a letter from Jewish members of Islington North CLP which has just appeared in the Islington Tribune
This article was originally published by the Morning Star on Thu 5 Nov 2020. Read the original here.
Come and meet your Jewish neighbours
Keir Starmer has said he wants rebuild trust and speak with the Jewish community. The problem is that the Jews he means are only those who support his underhand campaign against staunch anti-racist Jeremy Corbyn — and all he represents, writes DAVID ROSENBERG
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I have made formal complaints about LP member endorsing anti Semitic people like Nancy Astor but no response.
Keir Starmer and Co are well aware of the survey conducted for the authors of Bad News For Labour last year in which respondents, on average, believed that a third of members (34%) had been reported (to the LP) for anti-semitism, and they are also well aware that the actual figure is 0.3%. And needless to say, they know EXACTLY why such a massive discrepency exits between the actuality and the public perception.
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“All I would say is that, yes, it is an issue and it needs to be addressed, but I myself have never experienced anti-Semitism from a member of the Labour Party. Point two, though there is a big issue and it has to be addressed, I do not myself believe that Jeremy Corbyn is anti-Semitic. That is my honest view…… I’ve known him for the 22 years I’ve been in parliament. Even, actually, when I was a right-winger we got on pretty well. He was quite a personable individual.”
“He’s been very supportive of me and I’ve never detected so much as a whiff of anti-Semitism.”
John Bercow, former Speaker (being interviewed by Alastair Campbell)
And nor had any other Jewish MP of course!