This Once Great Movement Of Ours

[Ancestral Republican]

It's a really a shame but unsurprising to see one of the most sincere Labour leaders of the past few decades dismantled politically.

This demented saga had about as much to do with Judaism as Blair's proud participation in the Iraq War had to do with WMD's. A fairy tale.

[Ancestral Republican]

It should be mentioned again & again that this was started because Jewish Labour Party members felt unsafe in their own party & felt it was a hostile body.

There were a lot of Jews inside and outside of the Labour Party who went to bat for Corbyn. It didn't matter because the narrative has already been written.

Seriously, maybe I feel more comfortable disputing this because of my Judaism, but I've pored over this and I can't find any evidence at all to indicate there was ever a rampant problem with anti-Semitism in the Labour Party under Corbyn. Some unfortunate choice of words, maybe, but it's fairly apparent Corbyn is absolutely correct: this is a political snowjob. This is becoming a fairly common tactic of the global far-right: project their own anti-Semitism on the opponent and use it to take them down. We're seeing in the US with a few people in the House of Representatives being accused of it because they want to hold Israel to account for the ongoing settlements.

[Ancestral Republican]

Between this and Glenn Greenwald rage-quitting The Intercept, today's shaping up to be a pretty good day

You should keep the Republican avatar, it obviously suits you.

[Ancestral Republican]

Abdul Hai stabbed a child to death in an unprovoked, racist murder and now his good pal Sir Keith (who he worked with on a 'youth safety taskforce') wants to get him into Parliament.

As long as he didn't support Corbyn in 2015 he's a good man in Keir's book.

[Ancestral Republican]

Been reading more about Luke Akehurst, the self described "Zionist sh**lord" and thumb with glasses from Oxford who's being parachuted into safe seat Durham North (selected by himself because he's, unbelievably, on the NEC.) Gotta say it nukes any of Keir's remaining credibility that his left wing purges have been anything but personal - if he sees no issue with this unqualified, extremist hack (who had to delete thousands of tweets beforehand) standing for Labour, then all of his moral equivocating about other candidates goes out the window.