Letters to Anthony Loewenstein from those who can’t bear to hear unpleasant truths
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Anthony Loewenstein is an independent, freelance, investigative journalist, author and documentarian. Based in Australia, he has published widely on modern capitalism, corporate power and also on Israel-Palestine.
The latter has earned him the attention of the trolls and others who really find it hard to hear the realities he writes about.
This article was originally published by http://antonyloewenstein.com on Sun 6 Jan 2019. Read the original here.
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When did our world disintingrate into this revolting madness and mayhem? Reading this was absolutely jaw dropping. I couldn’t even read most of the vile content that he received, it was bloody awful. What are these racist idiots capable of in real life? This is outrageous. By the complicity of the West, the political establishment and ‘friends of Israel’s actions they have unleashed hatred and bigotry on a massive worldwide scale. By targeting Labour peace campaigners who fought against the Nazi League for years and trying to silence them with terrible smears helped by the sick media. They are trying to stop revelations of the decades of horrendous brutal occupation and murder taking place in the occupied territories and the countless deaths and massacres. The Labour executive have been spineless wimps during this orchestrated onslaught with the Blairite gang who never stopped plotting and they have left it up to labour members to fight back and stand up for the truth. The PLP allowed lies and smears to be enough to expel great people like Jackie Walker who have not even been given the opportunity to defend themselves before they were purged from the party and removed. They have continued and repeated mere allegations, stated as fact and the disgusting BBC said even mentioning Jackie Walkers Witch Hunt film was ‘anti semitism’., a black Jewish woman! I feel absolute despair. We are made to feel too scared to speak out while the real racists are freely saying the vilest things imaginable. This is going to end very badly for everyone. Those within our party that are helping our enemies in hurting Jeremy Corbyn and his chances of saving the poorest in society you should be BLOODY ASHAMED.
Wow. Reading the utterly repulsive and crazily heinous comments was like looking into the warped minds of savage and primitive minds. I hope the contributor is staying well and safe. Where is the media outrage? Nowhere. They are only interested in attacking the left, JVL, blacks, muslims, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The world has gone mad.
The anti semitism politically motivated witch hunt of the Labour party has set free dark forces upon innocent people. This is the very dangerous frightening result.
Hodge, Watson, Elman, Falconer, Mann etc are you reading this? This is what real bloody racism really looks like you idiots.
Of course this is horrible and very nasty stuff and I simply couldn’t read the whole lot of it. One reaction may be that some small part of it is done by ignorant, trouble-making trolls who like stirring things. But I couldn’t avoid a feeling that most of the emails, between the lines and under the surface, are expressing, often in barely literate ways, an intense and genuine pain.
I would conjecture that many of the writers (if that’s an appropriate word) have suffered some deep narcissistic wound with which they have come to identify, such that their whole identity has come to be bound up with a sense of victimhood.
One could imagine the hyperbole being expressed in highly expressionistic chromatic music, the sort that led to the development of twelve-tone music a hundred years ago. Arnold Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” (1947) is an excellent example.
The essential difference however is that Schoenberg had real sympathy and respect for the genuine victims as well as universal humanity notably absent from all the raw hate spewed by the emailers.