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But it's the Jews making the complaints, not the establishment.
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On a personal level, what I have found most depressing about antisemitism in Labour is the ready assumption that Jews would so readily sell short millennia of persecution for an easy political hit. Our history is not a bargaining chip. It is a threat we have faced from generation to generation in some form or other. In the last century, most calamitously
I don't doubt these statements at all, there is a problem of anti semitism in the labour party and I don't think Jews complaining about it are doing so with some kind of political motive with the timing. However I've no doubt that other people who can see these complaints as something that can be focused on intently at certain times and used for political gain will do so with no real regard to using your history as their bargaining chip.
I also think dismissing pointing out that the whole political system, and society as a whole is awash with institutionalised racism as whataboutary doesn't really help anybody. Yes it should be tackled at a local Labour level, and at a national Labour level, but also at a whole of government and further afield too. Getting your own house in order is important, especially as it's what you have most control over, but you need to look outside and see what's happening on the rest of the street too as a tidy living room isn't going to help much when next door is burning down.
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I don't really know what your point is. Yes there are other issues in the world, is there a problem in the labour party? You seem to think so. So deal with it, stop talking about other peoples issues cause you have lost the moral high ground if you haven't dealt with your own issues. Noone is blind or ignoring other things. Thanks for letting me know that other people are also racist, I really needed you to tell me that other people are also antisemitic and racist too. Really good of you to let me know
punkture
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