About the only thing that's going to interrupt the moral panic & wall-to-wall media coverage around Labour's small racist fringe is the next time a right wing nutter murders someone on the left. And the time after that.
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G/f can't stand Corbyn & is suspicious of current Labour ideology. Has often voted Tory (though never will again). Says to me: "Why is the Guardian constantly full of this stuff about Labour antisemitism? It's every single day"
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Best friend is a Lib Dem member & really can't stand Corbyn. Says to me: "It's obvious this institutional Labour antisemitism thing is bollocks".
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Remember last year when a far right anti-Semite walked into a synagogue in the US with a semi-automatic? And how the media in the UK immediately leapt to talking about it in the ‘context’ of JC and Lab? It’s pretty shameless
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Yes. It's useful to see it as seeding a blanket narrative. Once you've set the scene, everything can be made to fit
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I think ‘Orwellian’ is an overused term these days, but sometimes you start to see hints of it
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The thing is, it's a bit like Trump & the Brexiters. It reaches such a blatant level that it kind of becomes impervious to any critique or rational response
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1/ Because the Israeli/Palestinian issue forms part of (current) Labour's foundational myth, a totem, which they reflexively and vehemently resist any abrasion of, and the ease with which that reflex is triggered and commingled with antisemitism (intentionally or accidentally)..
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2/ it remains a point of weakness that is hard to close. There may be a way to close it, but that would require Corbyn taking part in some theatre, and publicly putting himself in a showdown, a big interview if you will. Think Walden/Thatcher Belgrano..
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This is where he fails badly as a 'leader'. It's clear that this failing is being exploited too
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It is obvious there is an issue, but the scale? Yet where are the comments about Tory racism? Almost as someone is using labours issues as cover for the tories issues.
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