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There's the problem. His quote about Zionists and not understanding English humour is a proveable case. Its the cherry on top. The guy is an anti semite.
Oh and do fuck off with the weaponisation of Labour's problems with racism. It's simple. If your party is not inherently racist and your leader isn't, then there's nothing to weaponise.
The emperor has no clothes
punkture-
His quote about Zionists and not understanding English humour is a proveable case.
‘The’ zionists. In the room.
I just don’t see it as anti-semitic. It sounds like a jibe. I think he is/was pretty tired of the zionists at the meeting .... not sure how we get to the idea he hates Jews?
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Conflating a political identity with an ethnicity is the weaponisation.
In this specific case it’s even worse politicking because the evidence shows Corbyn was refering to a specific group of people (the self-proclaimed Zionists who had earlier complained about a non-English speakers joke), not even ‘zionists’ as a movement. -
The guy is an anti semite.
he isn't, though.
your turn...
miro_o
Dramatic_Hammer
spiderpie
Honestly mate you're fighting a straw man here. Nobody disagrees that there have been instances of anti-semitism in the party, nor that they should be taken very seriously. It is not inconsistent with this to also argue that the issue is being weaponised by powerful forces in resistance to a growing leftist movement.
Corbyn is clearly not an antisemite. To label him such is to render the term pretty near meaningless.