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It's pretty hard to overstate the vindictiveness and hatred in these tweets but they're symptomatic of everything that makes antisemitism denial in Labour indistinguishable from antisemitism.
Just to break it down: the attack line on Hodge is the "dossier" which is something of folk lore in left-wing antisemitic politics. Hodge gathered some of the antisemitic abuse she got sent from people with Corbyn plastered on their bios. Some really vile stuff.
In this upside world - that is far from confined to the "fringes" - only 1 in 5 were able to be identified as members which is translated as a WIN.
Of course by this point, they've long bypassed the actual horror of what antisemitism is for Jewish people. That's long gone.
Of course by this point, they've long bypassed the actual horror of what antisemitism is for Jewish people. That's long gone.
If one hundred people with Corbyn tattoos spat antisemtic abuse at a Jew it would be indicative of nothing unless they carried a Labour membership card. Meaningless hysteria and the Jew can cry about it all day but it's nothing to do with the face on the tattoo.
So it becomes this. Not attacking Hodge for her political positions or actions, making her a culprit for being a victim.
Racist rhetoric doesn't come in much plainer terms.
Racist rhetoric doesn't come in much plainer terms.
It's a great example of what how adept antisemitism is as a virus: the thing about Labour I find the most off-putting is the endless bureaucracy.
Antisemitism made hay: every episode, every horror story told by a Jewish woman mangled into procedural point or a decimal place.
Antisemitism made hay: every episode, every horror story told by a Jewish woman mangled into procedural point or a decimal place.
Of course it came from Corbyn himself: that big mea culpa, his piece to camera in summer 2018 could only exist so long as he made an earnest attempt to reduce antisemitism to an 0.1% problem.
All that we've been through, a fight we never wanted. For a lot of Jewish people: a total re-evaluation of their place in British society for the first time in their lives.
"It's a 0.1% problem mate".
"It's a 0.1% problem mate".
All the rest is exaggerating, hysterical Jews which can be quantified somewhere in an obscure poll or decimal point. It's a filthy business. It's antisemitism.
And credit to the EHRC report, it was something they identified as central to the problem.
And credit to the EHRC report, it was something they identified as central to the problem.
Took literal minutes to materialise after the release of the report. Anti-Jewish racism reduced to misrepresenting a poll (in an antisemitic book) to justify calling us idiots or liars.
An antisemitic tale told by the guilty and lapped up by a horde. https://twitter.com/supergutman/status/1323050868900536322?s=19
An antisemitic tale told by the guilty and lapped up by a horde. https://twitter.com/supergutman/status/1323050868900536322?s=19
Still shocking that more people aren't shocked by this. Terrifying how many people fall for it and believe, like Corbyn does himself, that they are the victims.
But that's all antisemitism has ever been: everyone else being persecuted by the Jews.
A never-ending fairy story.
But that's all antisemitism has ever been: everyone else being persecuted by the Jews.
A never-ending fairy story.
