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If you've read the comments in full then I'd say you were being naive. She refers to Jews as a problem and likens Israeli policies to those of Hitler. The tone is very clear and these comments weren't made a decade ago when she was young and immature - it was 2014. I agree people have said a lot worse, but Labour were very clear that there was a zero tolerance policy being imposed. Corbyn then does nothing and Shah is subsequently suspended by the General Secretary. It's shambolic at best.
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suspended by the General Secretary.
Isn't that the General Secretary's, and not Corbyn's, job though?
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That's probably the issue then, everywhere is just reporting them as 'anti-semitic comments' and not actually putting them in full so we can make our own minds up.
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She refers to Jews as a problem
Did she though? The original tweet says nothing about 'Jews' and in the context of the state of Israel being created in 1948, is not actually that outrageous a thought experiment.
I feel that most of this outrage is a thinly-veiled excuse to bash Labour.
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Comparisons to Apartheid would make more sense, but I suppose that South Africa probably feels more distant to people in Europe. Listening to Radio 4 this morning it seems that efforts are being made to prevent any discussion of Zionism within the Labour Party.
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Perhaps I'm being naive but I really don't understand what was 'anti-Semitic' about her comments (move Israel to inside the USA, etc).
Inane, facetious, flippant, stupid, maybe but not "prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group".