The
Guardian heeft op kritiek laten weten dat het niet van zins is een
brief te plaatsen van meer dan 200 Joodse vrouwen, met terechte kritiek op de
smerige antisemitische campagne van dit medium tegen Corbyn en zijn
Labour Party…… Volgens The Guardian had het al
dergelijke kritiek geplaatst…. Al zou dat zo zijn, dan nog is het
van het grootste belang om te weten wat Joodse mensen van deze
schunnige campagne vinden……. Let wel: The Guardian heeft er geen
probleem mee om honderden eenduidige reacties te plaatsen die Corbyn en de
Labour Party beschuldigen van antisemitisme…..

The
Guardian heeft voorts gewezen op een krankzinnige definitie van
antisemitisme zoals vervat in de International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), een definitie die internationaal erkend zou zijn en waarmee elke kritiek op Israël wordt afgedaan als antisemitisme…… Wat
The Guardian er niet bij vertelt is dat IHRA wordt gesteund door 26% van 31
aangesloten landen, terwijl van de 193 landen 71% de staat Palestina
erkent en daarmee het vod IHRA naar de prullenbak verwijst…..
Immers zoals gezegd met IHRA in de hand wordt elke actie die voor de Palestijnen
wordt gevoerd en elke vreedzame actie van de Palestijnen tegen de fascistische
apartheidsstaat Israël afgedaan als antisemitisch……

Lees het
volgende artikel van James Wright, eerder gepubliceerd op The Canary en geeft het door, immers de Nederlandse reguliere media
janken net zo hard mee met The Guardian, de BBC en andere westerse reguliere media, die Corbyn
en zijn partij voor antisemitisch durven uit te maken…..

The
Guardian refused to publish this scathing letter from over 200 Jewish
women. It’s obvious why.

James
Wright
16th
March 2019

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Guardian refused to publish this scathing letter from over 200 Jewish women. Itâs obvious why.

It
turns out the Guardian refused to
publish a scathing letter from over 200 Jewish women on 10 March.
The Guardian claims that
it didn’t include the letter because it already covered similar
ground.

But
there are other obvious explanations for its refusal. Because the
letter is critical of
the Guardian‘s
reporting on Labour and antisemitism – particularly its
“unquestioning” coverage of rhetoric from political opponents of
Jeremy Corbyn. Also, the Jewish women are communicating a perspective
on Labour and antisemitism that the Guardianrarely
acknowledges.

“Baffled,
hurt and infuriated”

The
letter, which was published by the Morning
Star, opens by
calling out the Guardian‘s
approach to allegations from Margaret Hodge:

We,
all Jewish women, are baffled, hurt and infuriated by your
unquestioning coverage of Margaret Hodge’s campaign against Jeremy
Corbyn (‘Just Close them down: Margaret Hodge on antisemitism in
Labour’s branches’, March 9). Hodge extends her allegations that
Corbyn is an ‘antisemite and racist’ under whom antisemitism ‘has
been given permission to come into the mainstream and, like a cancer,
is infecting and growing through the Party’”.

Hodge
provides no evidence of such horrific wrongdoing by Corbyn, nor by
‘mainstream’ Labour members. Her own submissions to the Labour
Party certainly don’t do the job: General Secretary, Jennie Formby
reported that Hodge’s 200 complaints concerned 111 individuals, of
whom only 20 were actually Party members”.

“A
legitimate critique”

The
Jewish women also expressed support for Chris Williamson, who Labour
recently suspended for
questioning the party’s approach to antisemitism allegations:

Williamson
presents a legitimate critique; Labour’s response to antisemitism
accusations has been unnecessarily defensive, he said, not that it
has been ‘too apologetic about antisemitism’ itself.

Indeed, Williamson did
not deny that there’s antisemitism in Labour. The MP for Derby
North referred to
the “scourge of antisemitism” in the same address. He took issue
with the party’s failure to properly tackle Corbyn’s political
opponents, who have been demonising Labour
wholesale “as a racist, bigoted party”.

“The
IHRA document has been shredded”

The
group also criticised the Guardian‘s
reporting on the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of
antisemitism:

Meanwhile,
no mention that the IHRA document has been shredded by two QCs, plus
Jewish human rights specialist, Sir Geoffrey Bindman and Jewish
retired Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Stephen Sedley.

The
mainstream media consistently report on the IHRA document as the
‘internationally recognised’ definition of antisemitism. But
IHRA is only made up of 31 member countries and
only 26% of them recognise Palestine
as a state. The lack of Palestinian representation explains why these
member countries accept a definition of antisemitism that Palestinian
advocacy groups uniformly condemn.
In contrast to the IHRA nations, 71% of the 193 UN countries
do recognise Palestine.
So the widespread affirmation that the definition is ‘internationally
recognised’ is disputed.

Indeed,
24 Palestinian organisations, trade unions, and networks in the UK
have also criticisedthe
definition:

This
non-legally binding definition attempts to erase Palestinian history,
demonise solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom,
justice and equality, suppress freedom of expression, and shield
Israel’s far-right regime

Guardian response

The Guardian claimed it
decided not to publish the letter because the issue had “already
been aired before”. In another
letter to
the Guardian,
over 200 Jewish Labour supporters also condemned the narrative on
Labour and antisemitism:

We
believe that the Labour party under the progressive leadership of
Jeremy Corbyn is a crucial ally in the fight against bigotry and
reaction. His lifetime record of campaigning for equality and human
rights, including consistent support for initiatives against
antisemitism, is formidable. His involvement strengthens this
struggle.

Yet
the paper has no problem publishing hundreds of
articles amplifying allegations of antisemitism against the Labour
Party. A spokesperson also told the Morning
Star that
the paper receives:hundreds
of letters a day and unfortunately cannot publish every letter we
receive.

“Hijack
our history”

Rounding
off their letter, the Jewish women wrote:

All
signatories to this letter grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. We
know we must maintain eternal vigilance against antisemitic
resurgence. But we also celebrate our Jewishness, especially the
disputatiousness (pace our aphorism: two Jews three opinions) central
to Jewish identity. We are terrified by Margaret Hodge’s attempt to
hijack our history and rewrite our identity and by unwillingness to
investigate, fact check and challenge her allegations.

The
data supports their condemnation of the establishment for weaponising
antisemitism against Labour. Analysis from academics at
Goldsmiths found that
reporting across the mainstream media of Labour and antisemitism was
‘distorted’, ‘inaccurate’ and ‘misleading’.

With
the media peddling such an entrenched smear campaign, we must join
these Jewish people in unapologetically correcting the record.

Featured
image via Rwendland/
WikiCommons

=======================================

Zie ook:

‘Corbyn als schietschijf voor het Britse leger, reactie Tories: Corbyn is een groot gevaar voor Brittannië……‘

‘Antisemitische heksenjacht in GB bedoeld om pro-Palestijnse Labour politici de mond te snoeren‘

‘Esther Voet (Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad) ‘maakt grap’: ze vertrekt naar Israël vanwege groeiend antisemitisme……‘

‘Anti-Corbyn boek valt door de mand als valse aanklacht >> schrijver duikt onder……‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn weggezet als nazi in fake news ‘antisemitisme schandaal’ >> haatzaaien met een ‘groter doel’‘

‘Labour politicus Joan Ryan, die gisteren uit de partij stapte, werd op video betrapt met leugens om critici van Israël te belasteren‘

‘Jeremy Corbyn (Labour en oppositie leider GB) veegt de vloer aan met vertrekkende ‘centrum’ Labour fractieleden‘

‘Israël bewijst nogmaals fascistisch te zijn >> journalist met kritiek wacht gevangenisstraf……‘