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Has anyone actually heard/seen anything explicitly antisemitic come from any PLP members in recent years?
Naz Sha posted that stupid Meme about relocating Israel to the USA. I don't think she was an MP when she posted it though, and I think she was displaying stupidity / ignorance rather than racism, ans showed real remorse when the story broke. The cartoon had origionally been drawn by a New York jew I think.
Then there's the Ken Livingston fisaco, though of course not an MP he is a senior party member.
Happily, MPs are most vocal speaking out against antisemitism in the party.
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There's been a handful of other incidents involving Labour councillors and MPs, but I think there is an important different between explicit antisemitism in the fringes of the party versus the accusation of coded antisemitism (expressed via antizionism) in the PLP.
And I can understand why the PLP doesn't want this rats-nest to enter party discourse. As Chomsky put it "it assumes that Israel's interests are Jewish interests", and that guides the debate towards issues of race and racism, rather than the politics of nationalism and (questionable) actions of a nation state.
I don't find it acceptable to tell people what they can and can't be offended by, but to employ this logic the other way around: anybody who is pro-Israel is by default anti-Palestine and Islamaphobic.
I think it's a case of when to address legitimate concerns of antisemitism rather than paying into a rhetoric which makes it incrementally more difficult to express views that address the issues surrounding Zionism and Palestine.
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Has anyone actually heard/seen anything explicitly antisemitic come from any PLP members in recent years?
Genuinely interested.