Liz Truss plays the antisemitism card

So she won’t like the Jewish members of JVL – the wrong sorts of Jew, cos they are not part of the so-called Jewish ‘community’. And she’s obviously anti Arab, which is in tune with our illustrious Labour Leader Starmer. I expect he’s very pleased with Truss’s stance, which echoes his own. As a JVL and PSC member I think, if she wins the leadership vote for the Tories, we will have to have a two-pronged attack on both Truss and Starmer now to show them that there are two types of Jew and well as two types of non-Jew. Those who are on the right and those of us fighting for the right to be on the caring left side of society. People, Jewish or otherwise, do not fit into convenient boxes or groups. They are individuals. Some stupidly vote Tory but others think of other people less fortunate than themselves. Let’s fight even harder to rid of both of them.

Dave’s nonsense was debunked years ago by better minds than mine.
The fact that he choses to dredge up a historic slur from 2013 says more about him than it does about Corbyn or Hattenstone.

Thanks for that link Dave. Guardian journalism at its repellent worst. And unbelievably sloppy. All based on assumptions that Corbyn didn’t know who the ‘silent zionists’ were. But if they were silent and he didn’t know them, how did he know there were zionists present? Appalling.

I can only say, she thought she would get some Brownie Points by bringing anti Semitism into her speeches.
I wonder if any Newspaper or the BBC, will attack her for repeating a longstanding trope? No, will be the answer, they only attack Socialists and often when they are innocent.

Truss’s use of the antisemitism slur is purely opportunistic – she doesn’t believe a word of it, any more than she believes in the rest of the authoritarian nonsense she espouses, but she says it because she knows that it works on the antediluvian Tory base. Starmer’s use of it, on the other hand, strikes me as visceral. There was no need for him to declare himself a 100% Zionist – ‘no ifs, no buts’ – but he has attached himself to Israel as to a sacred cause, and will not rest until every last critic of the apartheid state is removed from the Labour Party. That is why he refuses to support Muslim women like Apsana Begum and Zarah Sultana: they remind him (and us) that there is another side to consider, and he doesn’t wish to consider it, let alone speak to it. Moreover his hatred of Jeremy Corbyn approaches the pathological, to the extent that any policy advanced by Corbyn, including nationalisation, is for Starmer anathema. The fact that a number of Labour councillors have now taken to taunting the left on Twitter with hateful tweets to the effect that Corbyn is a rabid antisemite is an indication of the tacit permission he has given them to make such statements about the former leader. That such things can be said with impunity points to a deeply compromised institution. Which is the more dangerous to the nation: a cynical opportunist or a deluded fanatic? I couldn’t myself vote for either, but I know which of the two I fear the most.