By Daphne Anson
It’s known as “rich Jew antisemitism”, the vile stereotype that all Jews are rich, that all Jews covet money.
It’s exemplified by the woman in these screengrabs.
She appears in the following video from a London pro-Corbyn event last year at about 4:13 taunting a young pro-Israel Jewish demonstrator with the assertion that all he and his kind care about is money, “silver and gold”.
There are other antisemites in the video as well, so have a look if you would know the mindset of the Corbynista enemy.
It’s “rich Jew antisemitism” that, under the over of “anti-Zionism”, propels so much of the antisemitism seen among Corbyn admirers today, the sort of people who joined the Labour Party when the rules were changed to give rank and file members in the vote for the party’s leadership, and which thrust the old class warrior into the top job.
In the Jewish Chronicle, a report about the British Labour Party leadership’s despicable attitude towards the antisemitism in a once honourable party.
Inter alia:
‘ Jewish Labour members were “in tears” after [Shadow Home Secretary] Diane Abbott llowed a motion calling on the party to “firmly reject” accusations of institutional antisemitism to pass at a local meeting.
Patrick Moûle, a member of the Hackney North and Stoke Newington Constituency Labour Party (CLP), tweeted an image of the “utter disgrace of a motion”, which was passed by 45 votes to 35, with 14 abstentions on Thursday evening.…
The motion read:
“This CLP notes with increasing alarm the acceptance of the ‘fact’ that the Labour Party is ‘institutionally antisemitic’ by not only the media, but the right wing of the PLP [Parliamentary Labour Party].
It is distracting people’s attention away from the calamitous consequences of the Tory government’s continuing austerity and its disastrous handling of the Brexit issue as it nears the 29 March deadline.
It is a scandal that we are allowing ourselves to be branded as a racist party. Furthermore, we call upon the NEC [National Executive Committee] to release a statement firmly rejecting the accusation that Labour is in any way ‘institutionally racist’, making it clear that Labour and its current leader have a proud record of fighting racism and will continue to do so.” …’
(See also https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47421300)
Corbyn has enjoyed a very close relationship with Ms Abbott, it seems.
Fresh defence of him by her re antisemitism here
See yet more here
Meanwhile, in the Sunday Times, Liverpool MP Luciana Berger, who recently left the party owing to its antisemitism, tells interviewer Rachel Sylvester ‘about the toxic culture in the partyunder Jeremy Corbyn — and the horrific antisemitism she has endured’.
Snippets (hat tip: international politoics academic James Vaughan on Twitter):
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I’m reminded of this passage in Bret Stephens’s review in the New York Times (30 January 2019) of Professor Deborah Lipstadt’s book Antisemitism: Here and Now:
‘…. Anti-Semitism, to adapt a phrase, is the hate that dare not speak its name, and Lipstadt is at her best when she removes the guises under which it travels….
[A]nti-Zionism … pretends that one can malign Israel as a uniquely diabolical and illegitimate state, guilty of Nazi-like atrocities, and still be acquitted of anti-Semitism. The leading Western voice for this view is the British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has repeatedly joined hands with virulent anti-Semites who share his pro-Palestinian, anticapitalist views — all the while insisting that he opposes racism. Lipstadt makes short work of that defense.
“Is Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite?” she asks.
“My response would be that that’s the wrong question. The right questions to ask are: Has he facilitated and amplified expressions of anti-Semitism? Has he been consistently reluctant to acknowledge expressions of anti-Semitism unless they come from white supremacists and neo-Nazis? Will his actions facilitate the institutionalization of anti-Semitism among other progressives? Sadly, my answer to all of this is an unequivocal yes. Like Trump, Corbyn has emboldened and enabled anti-Semites, but from the other end of the political spectrum.”…
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