Posted on 04/11/2016 5:02:58 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned anti-Semitism late Sunday night, after weeks of blatantly hateful remarks by members of the party against Jews and Israel.
"Anti-Semitism is absolutely abhorrent and wrong,” he stated, on a BBC One interview. “Anyone that commits any act of anti-Semitism, that makes anti-Semitic remarks, is auto excluded from the party and an inquiry follows immediately."
"We have suspended, we will suspend, any member that behaves in that way," he added.
Corbyn's statement surfaces after weeks of unfettered hatred from Labour party members toward Jews.
In March, Vicki Kirby, a party organizer banned for calling Hitler “a Zionist god” and ridiculing Jews for having “big noses," was readmitted into the party.
More recently, Bob Campbell, a party activist, was criticized for suggesting that Israel was behind the ISIS terror organization.
And earlier this week, a former mayor of Bradford and Labour member, Khadim Hussain, posted comments on Facebook decrying Holocaust education and alleging that Israel had armed ISIS.
Corbyn himself is infamous for being a Hamas and Hezbollah sympathizer, calling both terror groups his “friends."
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I was going to say that!
The Left is built on envy; as such, anti-Semitism is inevitable.
Irony is that so many Jews are left-wingers.
Karl Marx was Jewish by ancestry.
These Leftists want to make all of Europe majority Muslim. They think they can ride the tiger, but the tiger will eat them last.
There are, I think, more NYers than there are Jews in the entire world.
Why are they the focus of so much vitriol?
There’s an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood on Staten Island. They’re good people and their neighborhood is great. I’ve never really given it much more thought than that. -
Leave them be for goodness’ sake!!!
Exactly. I think anti-Semitism is the one common thread that holds Labor together these days.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Corbyn to say what he did. Otherwise, he won’t be able to compare conservatives to Nazis anymore if he says, “why anti-Semitism is as British as tea time, and we in Labour and the Left just can’t get enough of it.” So to preserve Labour and the Left’s prerogative to use irresponsible rhetoric, he just had to condemn anti-Semitism, and then carry on with it as usual.
Of the two major parties in Britain, it’s actually the Conservatives who historically have a much worse record for antisemitism than Labour. Not that it’s ever been a major problem with either - antisemitism has never been prominent in mainstream politics in Britain as it has been, for instance, in France and plenty of other European countries.
But that was then. This is now.
“Why are they the focus of so much vitriol?”
We rejected Jesus, Mohammed, Communism and stabbed the German People in the back. We also keep to ourselves, and thrive no matter what obstacles they throw at us. For some, some or all of that really pisses them off.
I am Catholic. We have our own groups who don’t like us much out there.
Mohammed can go @#$@#$ himself :)
Communism sucks.
The Germans stabbed YOU in the back, as many Jewish Germans fought in WWI on Germany’s side.
My Italian neighborhood keeps to itself. So what. Who isn’t more comfortable around a culture the’re at home with?
And success in America isn’t a zero sum game.
Jews can be really rally successful, an so can everyone else.
It’s not like there is a limited amount of success to suck up, lol.
Jews are relatively safe in America and Israel, except for Crown Heights now that deblasio is in charge again. Where’s Rudy!!
As for W. Europe. They might not be that safe, but it’s their right to decide to stay and fight for their right to be there, or come to Israel or the USA.
No one should be forced to move out of fear.
Well, someone asked how it is we Jooos! attract so much animus. I listed the usual answers, just for fun, leaving out stuff about international conspiracies and baby blood in matza. Glad that you reacted so boisterously against them, FRiend.
The Talmud says that there are three ways to know someone’s true nature: 1. his pocket book; 2. when he’s in his cups; and 3. when he gets mad. Glad that my list of reasons for anti-Semitism got you mad at the ‘reasoners’ who use them.
If only Mohammed had contented himself with sitting in his little cave and manually #@#$ing himself in between epileptic fits. Arabs can be quite agreeable people when they aren’t being Muslims. A pity he ruined that.
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