Thursday, 2 August 2018

How much support for Israel is there due to Islamophobia among antisemites?

I am not a Jeremy Corbyn  fan but I suspect that if you showed a graph of a fall in the Tories polling, it would be matched with a rise of stories  and accusations of  Antisemitism against Labour members.

Below is a YouGov table that appears on politicalbetting  showing all the published “Best PM” ratings since the start of the year.
As can be seen both main party leaders have taken a tumble and the gap between them is almost what it was. The timing is interesting. The T May drop has happened in the post-Chequers environment and was largely in July. Corbyn’s decline has more gradual.
The big message from where we are is “not sure” is growing almost by the poll.
In the first published poll after last year’s General Election both May and Corbyn were on 39% each.


Correlation is not causation may not be true here but it is indicative that the accusations of Anti-Sematism are being raised by not only the media but also by the Blarite tendency  within the Labour party itself.

BBC Wales has Labour MP Stephen Kinnock has claiming  that 

Jeremy Corbyn needs to "set an example" to halt Labour's antisemitism crisis, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock 
He said the Labour leader had to do more than apologise for appearing on a platform with a Holocaust survivor who compared Israel to Nazism.
Earlier it emerged Mr Corbyn was at a meeting in 2010 called 'The Misuse of the Holocaust for Political Purposes'.
Mr Corbyn said there were views expressed there that he did not "accept or condone".
He added:
 How much support for Israel is there by Islamophobia among antisemites?
"In the past, in pursuit of justice for the Palestinian people and peace in Israel/Palestine, I have on occasion appeared on platforms with people whose views I completely reject."I apologise for the concerns and anxiety that this has caused
The  BBC continue with 
Meanwhile, Owen Smith - the Pontypridd MP who challenged Mr Corbyn for the leadership - said the allegations against the party were a "self-inflicted wound".
Mr Kinnock told BBC Radio Wales he thought Mr Corbyn would be "appalled and mortified", but his apology was not enough.
 
"It's about confirming that these things that have been said in meetings where he was present that 'Yes they were anti-semitic statements'," he told the Good Evening Wales programme.
"Once we see clearly from Jeremy that he understands and recognises that they were anti-Semitic, I think that's worth more than apologies about the hurt and harm and damage it may have caused."

But as  AAV points out 

 If you want to get an idea of the astounding levels of bias in BBC broadcasting, just consider the disparity in coverage between their wall to wall negative coverage of Jeremy Corbyn attending a Holocaust event eight years ago in which the Jewish Holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer presented a talk called "the misuse of the Holocaust for political purposes", and the absolute silence they've maintained on the fact that three senior Tories, including a government minister (Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Michael Gove), had meetings with the extreme-right white-supremacist fake news merchant Steve Bannon just last week.
Why is it that the BBC is so desperate to draw the British public's attention to an event that happened eight years agoin an attempt to link Corbyn to the views that were exrpessed there, but so keen to keep the British public in the dark about three of the main front runners to replace Theresa May as Tory leader all holding secretive meetings last weekwith an extreme-right fake news merchant who told the French neo-fascist Front National to wear their racism as a "badge of honour" and helped unify the swastika-waving "Jews will not replace us" Alt-right maniacs with the Trump campaign.

There appears to me a very strange phenomenon in which some of the supporters are actual Antisemitism  and the label is used against those who criticise  Israel for  their  appalling behaviour in Palestine  who are clearly pointing  Israeli policy  against the Palestinians .

There are some who argue that criticising Israel is in itself Anti-Semantic but even if that is true ,i t is the Israeli  government at fault here in the same way protesting against President Trump is not Anti-American.

I fully support Israel right to exist  and defend itself. Even if I do not entirely agree with the circumstances that led to that states formation.

I do not agree that this means that it should expand by ceasing  Palestinian territory .

I certainly believe  those who share this view  should be accused of Antisemitism by those whose support for Israel is due to Islamophobia and the need to protect those who are either Blarites or the current government.

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