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ok, maybe it is for someone who may not be Jewish(?) and hasn't followed this issue in depth for years. But as a Jew who has followed this closely and, like many other Jews (of course not all and I don't speak for everyone) but:
- As a general community it is clear that we feel attacked and many people do not feel that they can vote Labour because it is not a friendly place to be as a Jew. That seems to be greeted with a great shrug from many people who bizarrely simultaneously define themselves as 'For the Many not the Few'. Shameful.
- Saying that the press unequally weight it as an issue is majorly problematic. You must be aware of the antisemitic trope that Jews control the media right? So is it the Jews who are behind this devious unequal weighting in the media? Whats the reason for it? Why are the media controlling Jews so hellbent on attacking Corbyn? Or does it just plain not exist and race hate towards Jews is a grave problem that should be given as much airtime as possible
- Why can't people just believe us and support us instead of telling us to prove ourselves first? It is not acceptable usually to go around telling other minorities that 'actually, no you are not the subject of race hate, stop being hyperbolic'. That would be unacceptable to other minorities so why to Jews? It was a major finding in the Stephen Lawrence case that recognised that minorities have the right and are always best placed to define their racism, due to the insidiousness and blurred, undefinable lines that are often inherent in racism, so why is this not applied to us?
- As a general community it is clear that we feel attacked and many people do not feel that they can vote Labour because it is not a friendly place to be as a Jew. That seems to be greeted with a great shrug from many people who bizarrely simultaneously define themselves as 'For the Many not the Few'. Shameful.
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On further reflection. I don't think anyone wants me posting inane reactions to articles. But the manner in which this whole issue has been reported seems, to me at least, to have become a stick with which to beat Corbyn. Yes there are issues with antisemitism and Labour, which is wrong, as it is for any political party. But the evidence that exists just doesn't seem to correlate with the unequal weighting in the press reporting the issue.