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Old 16-10-2016, 12:21   #731
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Re: Corbyn's kerfuffle

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Originally Posted by rhyds View Post
It comes down to a mixture of high level and low level politics.

At the high levels (Corbyn, Momentum, Students Unions etc.) they take the "oppressed" Palestinians' side in the Israel/Palestine conflict as that's the "proper" anti capitalist and anti western thing to do, and therefore set themselves against the Israelis, who they see as an "oppressive" force. Therefore anything anti Israeli is fair game. The problem is its not a difficult thing to then slip towards full-blown antisemitism, and start talking about Zionist conspiracies and the like.

At the low levels (MPs, councillors, activists) Labour are popular in a lot of majority Muslim areas. Now as we all know muslims and jews aren't exactly on the best of terms, so again you see a lot of anti-semitic feeling coming through.

What's happened recently is that more and more of the top brass of the party has ended up being replaced with those high level anti-Israelis, who's quite disgusting views are finally being aired, and the Party simply won't do anything substantial to tackle it. Even its own antisemitism enquiry has, by their own actions, been reduced to a whitewash.

what are these views??? any links to them
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