Steve Cooke
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Electronic muso and socialist who dislikes racists, antisemites, Islamophobes and antiziganists. @UKLabour and @Unitetheunion activist.
Stockton-on-Tees, UK
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@leo_hutz
That doesn’t sound like a real conversation. Most likely an AI fake. But then you knew that when you posted it, didn’t you?
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@ChrisCorney1
@JournoStephen
@stephenpollard
It's not even a profession that Corbyn is criticising there. It's an economic system.
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Roger Waters claims a British MP who raised concerns about antisemitism in his shows is following orders from his "masters in the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv".
If you're still denying Waters is antisemitic after this, well, f*** you, it's because you are an antisemite too.
There was much more foul abuse of the Labour MP Christian Wakeford. Here’s why:
“You are making s**t up because you’ve been told to by your masters in the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv. Because this hate is being organised from Israel.”
More cheers. 4/5
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@michaelwhite
Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel, not the prime minister of British Jews.
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@MuhammadSmiry
You have previously claimed that “The Zionists themselves manufactured the Holocaust”.
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I'm guessing North Yorkshire councillor Pat Marsh has strayed from official
@LibDems
policy when she says Jews are "evil", "vile", "horrendous", "a disgrace to the world" and claims "Israel owns the USA". It looks like
#antisemitism
to me. Perhaps the
@YandHLibDems
could advise?
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I see that Calder Valley Palestine Solidarity Campaign are being "anti-Zionist" but not antisemitic again.
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Anna Soubry complains about people being personal in politics only minutes after calling John McDonnell "a nasty piece of work".
#bbcqt
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@RachelRileyRR
We're cancelling the domestic violence exhibition because some men might be upset about it.
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I am aghast to report that an emergency motion on the
#PittsburghSynagogue
attack which I took to my Labour Party branch meeting last night was voted down, with the leader of Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council and...
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I'm saddened to learn that Dr Pete Newbon has died. He was a committed campaigner against antisemitism, a rising star in academia and a much-loved husband and father. May his memory be a blessing.
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Ken Loach, the man who directed a theatrical production about the Holocaust in which Jews were the baddies.
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@instamfordhill
She should redo that self-assessment as she is definitely racist and definitely antisemitic.
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@HesterObe
One does not simply apologise for comments as blatantly racist, hateful and violent as that.
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A great thing about social media is how it enables us to reach out and help people we've never even met. Jeff Bowler of Mansfield CLP spent many fruitless months trying to find "genuine antisemitism" in the Labour Party, so I was pleased to be able to assist him in his quest. /1
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I usually criticise specific statements and behaviours as antisemitic rather than label individuals as such. Just to be clear, though, if you still defend David Miller's politics or have the
#ItWasAScam
slogan in your bio, then you are an antisemite. Hope that helps.
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Sweet, poor innocent Barbara Frances Turner, formerly of Kettering CLP. Thrown out of the Labour Party when she'd never say anything antisemitic. Never.
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Imagine thinking a 2012 pic of you shaking a Jewish person's hand proves you're not antisemitic but that 2014 tweets where you expressed regret the Nazis didn't get to complete the Holocaust are irrelevant. Meet Daniel France of Worthing West CLP. He claims to be an antiracist.
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So, a number of Labour ex-members who had joined the Green Party are now quitting it because a little-known Green criticised Jeremy Corbyn over the antisemitism issue FOUR years ago and their deputy leader said he enjoyed David Baddiel’s book in 2021. These people are pathetic.
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@NatashaC
Well, Frank Hester is lying and so is the Tory spokesperson, who is doubling down on the racism there.
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Elon Musk has reinstated the Twitter account of Holocaust denier and antisemitic conspiracy theorist David Icke.
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On this day that Labour Against the Witchhunt supporters have started receiving notices of automatic exclusion from the Labour Party, I offer solidarity to the Jewish Labour members and others that these wreckers labelled as liars because they called out antisemitism in the party
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@CentralCee123_
@BucksCouncil
@OxfordHealthNHS
@CllrCarlJackson
They might not be able to answer why the councillor is a homophobe, but they ought to explain why a homophobe is one of their councillors.
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@daltonian99
@BellaWallerstei
Such as making it easier for Tory governments to violate human rights.
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Exciting times for Galloway's
@WorkersPartyGB
with a raft of candidates announced for the 2024 general election. These include
@Carla_Parrish
in Stoke North promising to tackle "Muz" birthrates, "Pakistani paedos", "Zionist puppets" & "Rothschild globalists". What could go wrong?
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It's likely that Rachel Reeves doesn't know the case against Ken Loach in detail but trusts the judgement of those who did investigate it.
It seems much worse to me that people who do know exactly what Loach has said still deny he has ever made any antisemitic statements.
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Cllr Hedley McCarthy, a former leader of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, has quit the Labour Party. He blames Keir Starmer but doesn't mention that he was being investigated over a series of antisemitic comments he published on social media. /1
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Not being Jewish, I'm not a victim of the cartoon's antisemitic imagery and forgiveness is not mine to offer. But imagine how much better our political discourse could have been now if others on the left who offended had reflected and responded in the way Martin Rowson has here.
I've appeared neither in
@guardian
nor on this foul forum for nearly 3 months now. Here I explain why. Keeping clear of Mush's "X" 4 now.
Bite the air in Britain and you can taste the prejudices that haunt us. I’m sorry I became part of it | Martin Rowson
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BREAKING: Conservative leader Theresa May spent Sunday evening with Christians who share her Tory politics. Why isn't she meeting with socialists instead?
#Jewdas
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Has anyone else noticed how complaints about antisemitism in the Labour Party just happen to coincide ... with incidents of antisemitism in the Labour Party? It's uncanny.
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@RedRosa91940184
What an extraordinary statement. You are angry about Israel’s military actions. Fine, criticise that. But you are going much further here and using antisemitic rhetoric.
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David Miller has embarrassed some of the Labour Against the Witchhunt crowd by saying what they believe more explicitly than they wanted it saying.
#antisemitism
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Jon Lansman is right.
Momentum founder says leftwingers ‘in denial’ about pro-Palestinian slogans
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Leearna Oliffe was the audience member who clashed with Paul Mason at a meeting last night. She describes Joe Powell, Labour's candidate for Kensington & Bayswater, as a "Zionist agent" and has previous form for promoting antisemitic narratives.
I've now seen a transcript of last night's Kilburn meeting - I won't link to it as it libels me - however the precise words the audience member used were these, and they're just as unacceptable... to say that many people in Labour are "supported and funded by Israel" and that
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@RussInCheshire
Nazi comparisons are not helpful. It's possible to criticise and condemn this government's policies without resorting to such hyperbole.
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Show me evidence of Labour Against the Witchhunt being apologists for antisemitism, says Ben Sellers of Red Labour. I reply with evidence of LAW leaders doing exactly that and even opposing Holocaust deniers being reported to Labour HQ. Sellers blocks me and deletes the evidence.
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Chris Williamson’s pants are on fire again. He says he was “never accused of antisemitism by [Labour] party bureaucrats”.
In fact, he was accused, and found guilty, of engaging in conduct that involved antisemitic sentiments, stereotypes and actions.
To quote the EHRC’s 2020
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@AllanSJMcLeod
@The_TUC
Oh, so cynical.
Brilliant speech by Angela.
Labour will make Britain work for working people once again.
@AngelaRayner
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"Has any member of the Labour Party ever met a racist [in their] own CLP?", asks Michael Smith on Facebook. He certainly hasn't encountered any in his CLP, Milton Keynes North. /1
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Improved due diligence checks picked up multiple antisemitic posts by Shakeel Hussain and halted his application to be a Labour candidate in this year’s
@StocktonCouncil
election. So it surprised me to see him standing for the Tories in Ropner ward. Didn’t they ask why he’d left?
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Derek Hatton made a good point on
#C4news
there. If Frank Field resigns and fights a by-election in
#Birkenhead
, he will have to campaign on his own. If Labour MPs who've spoken in support of him did that during the by-election they would face automatic expulsion from the party.
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Let's see if I've understood this. Livingstone and Bromley dropping their legal action against the EHRC proves that the EHRC's antisemitism report was a scam, that the 2017 general election was stolen from Labour and that Hitler supported Zionism until he went mad. Is that right?
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Bigot leader
@SimonMaginn
declines
@DavidHirsh
’s offer to send him a free copy of his book Contemporary Left Antisemitism so that he can read the explanations he claimed it lacked, despite not having read it.
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I trust that, having stated that thousands of
@UKLabour
members are Nazis, Michael Foster will now be suspended.
@IainMcNicol
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@WalkerHenrySmi1
@docholliday241
@MarinaPurkiss
What a ridiculous comparison. The people arrested were not under suspicion of terrorism.
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I never imagined I would encounter a general election candidate for the Trade Union & Socialist Coalition (TUSC) who promotes Holocaust denier David Irving, claims that Jews declared war on Germany in 1933 and that Germans were the victims of a genocide. Introducing Joe Whyte ...
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I’ve reported John Erskine of Rother Valley CLP to Labour HQ. As well as declaring a bereaved Palestinian child to be “better off without a mother who was a terrorist and an antisemite”, he is responsible for a series of racist, Islamophobic, ableist, ageist and abusive tweets.
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@Lowkey0nline
The "imaginative" part is on you. Nowhere in Stephen Fry's alternative Christmas message did he claim that opponents of Israel's actions were "motivated by racism". The full transcript of the broadcast is available here:
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@yanisvaroufakis
"A politician who refuses to actively oppose war crimes is not fit to lead the Labour Party" but one who refuses to acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organisation is apparently perfect for the job.
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Here's the co-chair of Labour Against the Witchhunt - one of the groups that could be proscribed by the NEC - arguing that it's wrong to report Holocaust deniers to the party.
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It's not surprising that many of the people who posed as leftwing while promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories in the Labour Party are now acting as apologists for the acknowledged global leader of the far-right, Vladimir Putin.
#IStandWithUkraine
️
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As
#Forde
said, Milne seems to have been selectively quoted in a misleading way and Westerman’s recollection may be unreliable. However, the evidence that the Labour Party had a serious problem with antisemitism in its ranks does not depend on the
#Panorama
film.
#LabourFiles
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If Stephen Fry used the C4 Alt-Xmas message to talk about homophobia, mass surveillance, AI or making school dinners more nutritious - all topics addressed previously - no one would be bothered. But he talks about antisemitism and there’s outrage from the ‘antizionist’ left.
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The media may have obliterated Corbyn but not "because of Keir Starmer & his Israeli sponsors" or "so many in the Labour Party [being] supported & funded by Israel". An "Israeli body" doesn't control candidate selection either. Those are antisemitic tropes, Emma. Hope that helps.
Fortunately someone recorded the meeting and we have a transcript.
The audience member has been seriously misrepresented.
She did not use the words attributed to her.
#factsaregood
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Ridiculous situation with Rochdale by-election. On Sky News this morning, Nick Thomas-Symonds was talking as if Labour’s candidate Azhar Ali had been the victim of an antisemitic conspiracy theory rather than the promoter of one, saying that he had fallen for it.
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Sonia Sodha's Guardian piece about Corbyn has upset a few people. Annette Scambler is typical of many, mostly former, Labour members who've responded to deny we had an
#antisemitism
problem whilst having a timeline replete with abuse of Jewish MPs and Zionist conspiracy theories.
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@edwards_jacki
@HenMazzig
People don't become antisemitic because they believe that lie. They believe that lie because they are antisemitic.
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organising a Middlesbrough meeting in partnership with TARIF (Teesside Against Racism, Islamophobia & Fascism), which is led by Saeed Ahmed.
@UKLabour
expelled Saeed over his antisemitism and he promoted Holocaust denial just a few days ago.
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Trying to pass off this blatant antisemitism as Raëlism has to be one of the crappiest alibis ever.
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It’s always a conspiracy, isn’t it? Several years ago, I changed my mind about Jackie Walker, having initially believed she had been treated unfairly but later concluding that she was indeed promoting antisemitic narratives. So, now she claims I was a sleeper agent all along.
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Anti-Corbyn Labour MP Anna Turley assumes the high moral ground against personal abuse in politics
#LabourLeadership
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Commenting on reports of Owen Jones's Twitter escapades, Mr Corbyn said: "One unfollow is one too many, but the scale of the unfollowing problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media."
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Desperate to show that left antisemitism is a “scam” rather than a genuine problem, uber-denialist Simon Cohen has oh-so-accidentally omitted some of the data from this 2019 YouGov survey in order to draw a conclusion opposite to the one reached by its author Daniel Allington. /1
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@PCCass
Also strange that research by Jewish institutions shows that antisemitism is significantly lower on the Left:
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Last year, Sally Eason, an antisemite who has targeted me since 2018, complained to my trade union. They investigated and found in my favour. Since then she has continued to air vexatious allegations, so I'm sharing my response and evidence of the outcome.
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Ernest: Would you even recognise an antisemitic statement? You claim never to have heard one in the Labour Party over decades of membership but repeatedly accuse Jews of dual loyalty, earning “30 pieces of silver” working for Israeli paymasters and lying about
#antisemitism
.
@Steve_Cooke
OK
@Steve_Cooke
, I'm waiting, just one quote of Ken Loach making an antisemitic statement, because I'm calling you a liar.
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It’s no surprise to see full-time antisemite Simon Maginn lying about what Luciana Berger said in the C4News interview. Luciana said that Jeremy made a number of antisemitic statements. She did not claim those comments were made to her.
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The signatories of the 'Jewish support for
#ChrisWilliamson
' letter in the Guardian include Michael Morgan of Scunthorpe CLP, a genocidal antisemite whose membership was suspended in 2016. I don't know if he actually signed it himself or someone added his name out of mischief.
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@AngelaRayner
@MonicaLennon7
Ed Miliband, Michael Howard, Herbert Samuel and Benjamin Disraeli were ethnic minority leaders of their parties.
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@katastrophising
I already had a long list of reasons why Rod Liddle shouldn't be a teacher but hadn't even thought of that one.
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Emeritus professor Harriet Bradley's violent missive about
@JewishLabour
will come as no surprise to anyone who's seen the obsessive antisemitism of her social media output. The Labour Party expelled this former councillor for supporting the antisemitic 'Labour in Exile Network'.
We have written to
@BristolUni
about the position of Harriet Bradley as an emeritus professor of the university.
Bradley called on people to ‘blow up’ our One Day Conference.
We are thankful for the support of
@metpoliceuk
and
@CST_UK
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"We need to learn" from "mistakes made under Corbyn", says Ben Sellers, and then criticises the left's failure to challenge the "antisemitism smear allegations" and "the witchhunt". Learning to recognise AS rather than dismiss it would be more useful, Ben.
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I just showed one of the
#ItWasAScam
mob, who denied there was ANY antisemitism in the Labour Party under Corbyn, this section of the Leaked Report, which details two AS cases and said I had reported them. He replied that I was admitting to making “false allegations”. Speechless
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I reported Derbyshire-based Phil Oakland’s antisemitic hate speech to the police 18 months ago. My local force,
@ClevelandPolice
, told me he was just someone with strong opinions, so the complaint won’t have been forwarded to
@DerbysPolice
. Here are some of his more recent posts.
Phil Oakland's Facebook timeline is so full of vile
#antisemitism
and Holocaust denial dressed up as support for Palestinians that public exposure really isn't enough. I've reported him to
@DerbysPolice
for incitement to racial hatred and breaching the Communications Act 2003.
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1/ If you claim UK Jewish organisations are a threat to freedom, obliged to condemn Israel, operate as a 5th column, collaborate with Nazis, concoct allegations of antisemitism and lower themselves to the level of vermin, it's fair to describe that as attacking Jews.
#GlynSecker
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@rericswan
What does Israel or the IHRA definition of antisemitism have to do with the motion I proposed to the meeting? Nothing at all. Read it.
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Since I quit the Labour Against the Witchhunt group, after realising it was more interested in supporting antisemites than campaigning for a fairer disciplinary process, its vice chair Tony Greenstein has occasionally been in touch to share his thoughts.
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Jackie Walker, David Miller, Tony Greenstein and Chris Williamson - the key commentators in
#TheBigLie
film - and those like Ben Sellers who support their views are not “trying to tell the truth about a very serious threat to democracy”.
Okay, they may believe they’re doing
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C’mon,
@DerbysPolice
. When will you take action against Phil Oakland of Ilkeston over his extremist, antisemitic hate speech? Here are some of his racist posts from this evening.
@DerbysPCC
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People who believe the crap published by Skwawkbox are 549 times more likely to be expelled by the Labour Party than people who don't.
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Livingstone & Bromley dropped their legal challenge to the EHRC report, whose findings against them remain unchanged. But they, Williamson & the
#ItWasAScam
crew live in an inverted reality, like a team that’s lost 0-3, all own goals, celebrating as if they won the match.
#Sad
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Such a pleasure to receive another email from notorious antisemite Tony Greenstein, who was expelled by the Labour Party in February 2018. Nice touch to sign off with references to Judas Iscariot and “30 pieces of silver”.
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Simon Maginn's
#ItWasAScam
campaign is antisemitic because it presents antisemitism complaints in the Labour Party as "outright fraud" manufactured by an "antisemitism smearing industry" and "used as a weapon against the left". As the EHRC report said, that's antisemitic conduct.
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Antisemitism excused on a technical detail. Roger Waters’ 2013 tour used the flying pig featuring a Star of David. He added Christian and Muslim symbols only after objections from Jewish groups. It’s hardly unreasonable to use the 2013 image to illustrate news reports and
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@Bushra1Shaikh
Have any British Muslims been subject to such measures for enlisting in the armed forces of countries for which they hold dual citizenship?
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Belgica Guaña, the
#Newham
Labour councillor who promoted Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi antisemitic conspiracies on Facebook, has been re-elected to represent Canning Town South ward. She should do the decent thing now and resign her seat immediately.
#LocalElections2022
#C4News
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@wolfi665
@ChrisCorney1
@JournoStephen
@stephenpollard
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion describes a (fictional) Jewish plan for global domination, control of media, economy, etc. It wasn't written or promoted by people who sought to reduce social & economic inequality, but by people who wanted to maintain or increase it.
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