CST Goes Through The Looking Glass
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Zelo Street has published a brief evaluation of the latest CST, much trumpeted in MS, with its claim that there is an “Engine of Hate” behind Labour’s “antisemitism crisis”.
This report, based on Shaun Lawson’s tweeted analysis, shows how thin – and conspiratorial – this thesis is. It brings no credit to the CST.
Shaun Lawson’s full twitter thread follows the article below.
This article was originally published by Zelo Street on Sun 4 Aug 2019. Read the original here.
CST Goes Through The Looking Glass
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The day before all this was reported, the Guardian gave prominence to a claim by the MP for Tooting, Rosena Allin-Khan, that she received antisemitic tweets for lobbying Israeli government officials on behalf of Palestinian children in Israeli hospitals. Although the tweets amounted to strong, even rude, political criticism, none of the examples given were antisemitic. Once again, the idea that Israel is synonymous with Jews is one propagated by zionists and their supporters – such as the Guardian – and it is this lumping of all Jews together that is in fact antisemitic. Rosena Allin-Khan needs to be made aware of this fact.
I personally don’t think the MP should have been attacked for what she has done. I’m sure lots of labour MPs tried to lobby the South African government to try to get Mandela released, or for an enquiry into Steve Biko’s murder and it’s part of their job. However, I also think the vehemence with which Allin-Khan has been attacked is a product of the toxic atmosphere stoked by the supporters of Israel. Describing critics of her as antisemitic is not likely to protect her from further verbal abuse.
I would suggest that it is CST who are the “engine of hate ” towards 36 people, the majority have done nothing wrong. Yet they have been ” lynched” in the media and stigmatised as antisemitic or enablers of antisemitism.
This has gone too far – lives have been put at risk by such reports – including that of Jeremy Corbyn. Do certain lives not matter for these authors, cynically inciting such hatred? Do they not realise what they are doing?
Two weeks ago Nick Cohen published one of his crazy pieces in the Observer, this time deriding the ‘noble savage’ myth that he alleges the Left (i.e. Corbyn) adheres to. His immediate target was Shraga Stern (the Charedi who met Corbyn recently in Parliament, to Margaret Hodge’s disgust). I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an outrageously antisemitic outburst in a decent newspaper as Cohen’s description of Stern : ‘And what a Jew! With his Yiddish accent, black clothes, beard and ringlets,Stern looks like a caricature from the 18th century…’ I sent the Guardian a disgusted letter, but predictably it wasn’t published (possibly because I hadn’t seen the article until this week and the Graun doesn’t like old news). I’d be interested to know whether anyone has seen letters complaining about the article. Compared with this outburst, most of the ‘antisemitic’ tweets catalogued by the CST are of no significance.