Yes, Jeremy Corbyn Was Vilified Because He Criticized Israel
JVL Introduction
The almost criminal elision of criticism of Israel with antisemitism has not gone away.
Here Daniel Finn shows how it was used, ruthlessly and quite unfairly, to demonise Jeremy Corbyn.
Finn cites case after case in which Corbyn’s support for the rights of the Palestinian people was the trigger leading to hostile campaigns against him in which, time and again, such dishonest elision was deployed.
And he concludes that “lumping together politicians who have an excellent record of challenging racism with Holocaust deniers and antisemitic mass murderers is both shameful and utterly reckless at a time when far-right, ultranationalist forces are gathering strength.”
This article was originally published by Jacobin on Thu 4 Aug 2022. Read the original here.
Yes, Jeremy Corbyn Was Vilified Because He Criticized Israel
Jeremy Corbyn’s critics are once again furious because he stated an undeniable fact. Corbyn was shamefully denounced as a dangerous antisemite primarily because he supported the democratic rights of the Palestinians.
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A minor quibble, but I doubt that Salah Khalaf was killed on the orders of Saddam Hussein. Abu Nidal’s group had broken their links with Iraq in the lat 70s and were then based in Libya. The assassination was thought at the time to be an attempt to stop the PLO brokering a peace deal over Kuwait, just before the Americans drove the Iraqis out. This would have benefited the Americans and Israelis, which means that Abu Nidal’s loyalties were not what he stated that they were. But they were not Iraqi.
A very interesting overview thank you. And this weekend we have Freedland in The Guardian, pontificating ‘Be warned: inflation could take British politics to a very ugly place’. Maybe some self reflection required Mr Freedland?
‘Jeremy Corbyn was shamefully denounced as a dangerous anti-Semite…………’ by all MSM, but especially ‘The Guardian’ which appears to be the favoured source of information by the editor of JVL. Jonathon Freedland was not only instrumental successfully pointing the finger in the Guardian, but he was also favoured by the BBC as one of the most ‘go to’ journalists appearing on topical news & current affairs programmes such as Question Time & Any Questions. The BBC & the Guardian are a major part of the problem NOT the solution.