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Do you not find the timing questionable? An ancient comment dragged up now and stirred into a frenzy? Never mind the bad faith of people not interested in ever voting for labour suddenly bothered about internal reform!
I agree with your last point though, it would be great if it was stamped on hard from the top. I think the defensiveness has come more from normal people going ‘but I’m not anti-Semitic???’.
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Surely if a party is on the brink of power it is in everyones interest in how it is run. The Labour party or any political party doesn't exist solely for its members.
For Jews and those who have followed this, the timing is obvious and a logical result of two years of slow build up with constant antisemitic issues being consistently brushed off by the Labour leadership. We have had enough and the timing argument is pretty insulting and as I said previously (I'm a broken record) smacks of the suggestion of a Jewish conspiracy, which is an antisemitic trope
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Do you not find the timing questionable? An ancient comment dragged up now and stirred into a frenzy?
The timing is questionable, but only in the sense it has taken so much time for Corbyn to apologise for his comment on the mural. He was asked about it three years ago and brushed it off.
punkture
William.
But it's the Jews making the complaints, not the establishment.
As I said upthread, pointing fingers at others like the Tories is a distraction from the issue.
This is surely a great opportunity for Labour to affirm and make a public point to show that there is substance behind their slogans and not to get defensive and regard it a a stick beating them