Posted on 03/26/2016 5:23:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
UK Prime Minister David Cameron issued sharp criticism of the Labour party Wednesday, given the large number of members recently exposed making anti-Semitic comments and the party's unwillingness to take action against them.
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n parliament, Mike Freer of the Conservative party asked Cameron if he agrees that all organizations "public and private" should root out anti-Semitism, in a timely statement given the Labour party's recent association with anti-Semitism.
"Anti-Semitism is an absolute cancer in our society," responded Cameron, warning that when hatred of Jews grows it's a signal of "many even worse things happening to ethnic groups and other groups all over our country."
Recognizing the growth of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic attacks in the UK, he called to "stamp it out."
Cameron then focused his comments on Labour head Jeremy Corbyn, and noted there is a growth of anti-Semitism in "part of the Labour party."
"And I say to the leader opposite, it's his party and he should sort it out," ...
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Their country is descending into a jihadi nightmare and their libs, rather than accurately assessing the danger, are instead obsessed with Jews and Israel. Yet more proof that progressivism is a serious mental disorder.
I wish to thank the gentleman for making his statement.
anti-Semitism is indeed a great cancer in any society...
(and UK’s history of Anti-Semitism goes back to at least the yaer 1290 and the massacre of Jews seeking safe sanctuary at the cathedral of York, that one just comes to mind but...
here is a very well-written and ORGANISED outline of the problem....
http://jcpa.org/article/antisemitism-embedded-in-british-culture/
When the Nazis came to power, nobody really paid much attention to their anti-semitism, because at the time it was the norm for the entire continent.
Lefties are the same everywhere.
yes indeed.
it is at our USA colleges today, there’s a ton of money and organizational work being channeled into the campuses to attack Jews (and Christians)
the campuses are easy soft targets because they have the idea that they should be “free speech zones”
plus there are some really bad faculty when it comes to these concerns, too
Campuses are free speech zones? Wow, that’s news to every conservative speaker forcibly banned from speaking on campus.
Yes. It’s free speech for only certain points of view.
I’d imagine it’s an even bigger problem in the UK left than it is here.
"Anti-Semitism is an absolute cancer in our society," responded Cameron, warning that when hatred of Jews grows it's a signal of "many even worse things happening to ethnic groups and other groups all over our country."IOW, it's dangerous not because of possible harm to Jews, but because it could lead to - egad! - Islamophobia. What a transparent jackass. Still, glad he said it.
Thanks Impy.
You hit it right on the head.
But reading even deeper between the lines: “many even worse things happening to ethnic groups (Pakis? Irish? Blacks?) and other groups (Muslims or gays or both?)”
“Even worse things (than bigoted violence?)” That one has me stumped. Closing floodgates on rapefugees? Hiring discrimination against Irish or blacks? Giving wedgies to kilted Scots and getting your head bashed for it?
Impossible to parse that last snippet reliably. Any ideas?
It could be his lifelong lack of articulation -- he's been known to smash all the china just by strolling through the shop.
Rather disingenuous of Cameron, since historically it’s his party (the Conservatives) which have always had a much greater problem with antisemitism than Labour. Jews have been prominent in Labour throughout its history (indeed the last party leader was a Jew), and Labour when in office has always been much more supportive of Israel than have the tories. There does seem to be a problem at the moment with some activists in the Momentum movement, which has sprung up as a pressure group within Labour since Corbyn’s election: but it’s not typical of the party’s history.
Britain is not an anti-Semitic nation and never has been, despite the occasional incident (but then don’t we all have them......Leo Frank anyone?.).
The UK is the 6th LEAST anti-Semitic nation on earth. Fact. 2014 Anti Defamation League Global Study. It is one place ABOVE the United States. The UK, far from being anti-Semitic, is one of the friendliest nations to Jews and historically has been.
Anti-Semitism in modern times in the UK has been pushed to the fringes of British society. Either the pro-Hitlerite upper class of the 1930s, or the knuckle dragging fascists and racists, be it Oswald Mosley in the 1930s with his Union of British Fascists or the BNP today, whose last leader was a Holocaust denier. The British people en masse 80 years ago and now reject anti-Semitism and those who peddle it.
Whilst there have been some historical injustices against Jews, these have been few and far between and its is very important to look at these in the larger history. Britain (except for 1290 in England) has been free of the pogroms that murdered many a Jew in Europe. Scotland, Wales and NI have no history of anti-Semitism, and England’s history of it is frankly minimal.
The Jewish population of Great Britain lives happily without any major anti-semitism. In fact, Judaism is openly celebrated as a long standing and vibrant part of British culture. British TV ran Jewish documentaries across all five of its network channels last year. Did America?.
British Jewish entertainers, writers, politicians and businesspeople openly celebrate their Jewishness. The London East End Jew, with his sharp wit and mouth is as well loved and known a British cultural icon as the Glaswegian or the Cockney.
The current British Prime Minister is part Jewish. As was the last deputy PM. As was the last leader of the opposition party(Labour). So you have/had Jewish-descended people in the three most important political positions in the UK.
The British people. are no more antisemitic than their American cousins. In fact as we see, slightly less. The UK is the nation that rejected the naked antisemitism of the 1930’s Fascists, and continues to reject the antisemitism of the BNP and other fringe neo-nazi parties and groups. The nation that stood alone against Hitler, while America and others stood by. And the nation that liberated Belsen and saved Jewish lives.
To suggest that the British people are antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.
Another angle/issue: that of equating criticism of Israel to anti-Semitism. It is one that personally annoys me.
It is imo a lazy and cheap argument. One can criticise Israel without remotely being anti-Semitic. Criticism of Israel is political, anti-Semitism is an ugly form of racial-ethnic-religious hatred. I support Israel, but I reserve the right to criticise it if necessary. I despise anti-Semitism.
PC-ism aside, no, it isn’t, it really isn’t. 96% of the UK is NOT Muslim. 92% white European. Three parts of the UK have 1% or less Muslim populations. For all the silly PCism to Muslims, and their extremist noise, Muslims have no major social, economic or political power. Nor are they the largest ethnic minority.
Besides which, most UK Muslims are just decent normal folk of faith. The extremists are a (worrying) minority.
I criticize Israel quite frequently myself. In principle, it is not ipso facto anti-Semitism to criticize Israel. But in practice, anti-Semites these days frequently and thinly disguise their anti-Semitism as “criticism” of Israel, and use your argument as a shield. How should one know the good, constructive criticism from the thinly disguised anti-Semitism? By observing the critics over an extended period, and noting whether the criticism is really judicious and balanced, and whether it’s being directed even at non-Israelis, such as BDS’ insisting that a non-Israeli but Jewish recording star openly disavow “israeli apartheid” before they agree not to disrupt his concerts. Then, of course, there are tactics, and there’s no mistaking jack-booted thuggery.
BTW, unrelated, is Nigel Trantor’s Wallace more accurate than Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, or the other way around, or are they both just over-the-top blather?
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