There's no exaggeration.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:38 pmBut I'm not sure what point lpm is trying to make by exaggerating the scale of antisemitism in Labour for political reasons.
Corbyn gave money to a f.cking holocaust denier years after he became notorious as a holocaust denier in exactly the circles Corbyn frequented - this literally included an essay by the aforementioned holocaust denier called "my life as a holocaust denier" - and Corbyn was patron of the PSC, an organisation that expelled the holocaust denier in question but only after acrimonious debate that could not have been missed by anyone with even a passing acquaintance with that realm of politics.
Corbyn repeatedly campaigned alongside and platformed all sorts of antisemites, many of them also misogynist and homophobic - but couldn't be arsed to show up to campaign in any meaningful sense for Labour party policy against Brexit. He was happy to stand on a stage surrounded by the flags of the fascist terrorist group Hezbollah, but wouldn't share a stage with Cameron to oppose Brexit - likely because he was a lifelong europhobe and stooge for anything anti-western.
He employed a director of communications that was an active member of the Stalin society and who praised the "resistance" in Afghanistan and Iraq at a time when this could only be referring to the Taliban and Islamic State.
Corbyn was also on the f.cking payroll of a propaganda channel for a misogynist, racist and murderously homophobic fascist regime, taking part in their propaganda. His involvement with them ultimately ended when they were forced off British airwaves for failing to pay fines, probably because he was no longer any use to them. The fines they failed to pay were for complicity in torture - broadcasting confessions obtained by torture, to be specific - and Corbyn did not stop working for them when it became apparent they were complicit in torture, staying with them for the year or so between that finding and their demise on British airwaves.
Corbyn loyalists at council level selected promoters of holocaust denial and open white supremacists* to be council candidates in full knowledge of what they were. Corbyn placemen in the disciplinary system protected them in full knowledge of what they did.
Corbyn defended anobviously antisemitic mural, and protested against the removal of that public display of bigotry.
Corbyn liked to hang out on a notorious facebook group rife with grotesque antisemitism and rife with antisemites and conspiracy theorists.
Corbyn personally engaged in antisemitic conspiracy theorising when he talked about "the hand of Israel" being involved in a terrorist attack in the Sinai. The attack, targetting Egyptians, was carried out by Islamist extremists.
Though not directly related to antisemitism, Corbyn also supported denial of genocide in the Balkans - including Srebenica - in parliament.
Throughout this on the old forum, the defence of Corbyn was characterised by dishonesty and cowardice, with his defenders not only repeating debunked lies, but refusing to engage with reams of evidence. Sadly, that's gone now, because debunking the b.llsh.t excuses and sourcing the details of the bigotry was a morally exhausting exercises. For every dishonest repetition of a feeble excuses - eg the claim that Paul Eisen wasn't exposed as a holocaust denier until after Corbyn gave him money** - I would have to trawl through reams of some the vilest material out there, notably murderous homophobia, despicable misogyny, holocaust denial, racist conspiracy theory and all forms of antisemitism. Indeed, the bigotry against Jews in certain sections of the far left is such that it goes full circle, and material from the far right can be found involved too.
The only problem with expelling Corbyn for this in 2020 is that he should have been expelled long, long ago. Acting as a propagandist for the despicable Iranian regime should have been instant expulsion. Donating money to the open holocaust denier Paul Eisen long after he was known to be a holocaust denier should have been instant expulsion. Perhaps if Labour had a sensible leader, one who did not refuse to campaign for the Labour party's position because he personall disagreed with it for lunatic reasons, Brexit might have been averted. Either way, if Labour had a more talented and less repellant leader, we would not have ended up with a Johnson majority, with the horrifying damage it is currently causing.
I really don't have the energy to spare to dig through the cesspits of online antisemitism where many of Corbyn's most fanatic supporters dwell, or where the evidence of his imbrication with all sorts of antisemites is to be found. But if I have to, I'll do it. Racism is too serious to ignore, or allow others to misrepresent.
But I seriously suggest you do not f.cking try me.
*I know the term covers a range of positions these days, but the guys Alan Bull promoted were of the "Christianity is a Jewish plot against true white aryans" school of white supremacy, from a website that offered to give out free books by leading members of the Nazi party
**The essay about being a holocaust denier was published in 2008, can't remember exactly when the expulsion from the PSC was, but he was being openly discussed as a holocaust denier in PSC circles not long after that, and certainly by 2012, when another antisemite was expelled from the PSC, while Corbyn was giving money to the holocaust denier at least as late as 2014, a year before his leadership campaign. And yes, I did have to go on the website of a f.cking holocaust denier to verify the dates involved, which is the sort of thing I mean when I say it is morally exhausting