The Establishment is coming for your media
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
For a decade and more, right-wing Labour MP John Mann was witch-hunter in chief of so-called “left antisemitism”.
Now a Tory peer and “antisemitism Tsar” he has just announced an “investigation” of the Canary and other far-left websites as enablers of antisemitism.
We are awaiting his call…
[updated 15 Dec with a couple of tweets added at the end of the post]
This article was originally published by Skwawkbox (SW) on Fri 13 Dec 2019. Read the original here.
The Establishment is coming for your media
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JVL next?:
https://twitter.com/LanceForman/status/1205434286469525504
Clearly unaware of the relationship of “Tsar” with antisemitism.
Dark days ahead. This situation is not going to remain uncontested! How dare they. How can I help?
I mean given that it’s complete bull, what is it precisely that John Mann is going to do? I suppose his angle will be that these websites and the vast majority of people commenting on them reject the bulk of the accusations and claims of A/S and that the Party under JC is infested with antisemites and that it’s all a smear campaign AND that THAT is anti-semitic.
It’s funny how he made this announcement on the morning of the day after the general election, and yet he was given the job back in July, so why didn’t he start his ‘investigation’ back then, or shortly afterwards if he was REALLY so concerned about these websites like The Canary!
The reality is that the last thing the Establishment want is people exposing their lies and falsehoods and smears AND the corporate media and the semi-corporate BBC that have conspired in the whole smear campaign op from the outset.
do you think some declaration about the state of Israel will form part of Labour party membership in the future…if you don’t sign…you’re expelled.
The first time I ever heard of or saw John Mann was him shouting until he lost his voice at Ken Livingston on a stairway, which was broadcast repeatedly on London and national news bulletins. He looked like and sounded like a complete idiot. I haven’t seen or heard anything since of him to change my first impression.
Not surprised by the actions of this Mann. He reminds me of the snivelling little snith to be found in many school classrooms, the one who then can’t understand why nobody wants to be their friend. The one who looks like he’d sell his own grandmother to the highest bidder. Maybe we could crowd fund to pay for his loyalty. Just need to know how much Johnson is paying the little git.
Well, seeing as this is a total witch hunt against anyone who criticises Israel’s actions against Palestinians and I’ve never seen anything vaguely antisemitic in the Canary, and the antisemitic smears against Corbyn were vague and baseless (the way he pronounced Epstein, really?) I just subscribed to the Canary to support them. How dare they try to shut any dissenting voices down? This is a dictatorship in the making
This is a concerning development if they have managed to con the judiciary into adopting the flawed definition of antisemitism
https://antisemitism.uk/citing-caa-research-judicial-college-adds-international-definition-of-antisemitism-and-section-on-use-of-zionist-as-a-slur-to-its-handbook-for-the-judiciary/
I note that the Community Security Trust’s publication, “ENGINE OF HATE: THE ONLINE NETWORKS BEHIND THE LABOUR PARTY’S ANTISEMITISM CRISIS”, mentions the Canary thirteen times, though Electronic Intifada gets 22 mentions and its own section. It’s a remarkable document, not least for its demonstration of in-depth online forensics. Worth looking at CST’s annual report for 2018 too: it details a total of 148 confirmed antisemitic incidents linked to the LP in the whole of the UK last year, 9% of the annual total, and representing, at most, 0.03% of LP membership. Would have been nice to see this stat used by the media at least once in run up to GE, sigh. https://cst.org.uk/publications/cst-publications