To ask about Jeremy Corbyn and anti semitism

[TheoriginalLEM]

So having decided to vote labour I had a conversation with a Jewish work colleague who said she couldn't vote for him, hated him even. It took me a few seconds and then i realised why. I said that I had stuck my fingers in my ears and my head in the sand somewhat about this, hoping it was just the media etc.

We didn't get into it as I could see she was uncomfortable.

So can someone tell me if and why he is an anti-semite? It doesn't sit well with me to vote for someone like that but I desperately want the Tories gone and my politics is definitely to the left.

I'm honestly not being goady and I know I could google but i wouldn't know where to start to get an unbiased view

Why does it matter that there are a lot of jewish people in the BBC? Why does it matter? Unless you are hinting at jewish people influencing and controlling what the BBC says. Otherwise it is totally irrelevant.

Travelfan1

Your attempts to defend the Labour Party are so appalling that they are worse than any condemnation could be. Please continue!

I never said the bbc was controlled by Jews, merely that there was a lot of Jews in the bbc.-

What was the purpose of this observation?

I never said the bbc was controlled by Jews, merely that there was a lot of Jews in the bbc.- which there is

whats a lot? And how many Christians?

Travelfan personifies the corbyn cult.

Why on earth would anyone even register how many Jewish people are at the BBC? why would anyone care unless they go looking for evidence

Anti semitism includes the anti-Semitic canard that Jewish people control or have influence over the media. @Travelfan1 you know exactly what you are insinuating. You are deliberately skirting being directly anti Semitic, and hiding behind your "oh! Funny you noticed!". Disgusting.

No travelfan is the equivalent of people on MN who say they are not racist, but a golliwog is only a children's toy.
And I think Corbyn is the same. I think he genuinely believes he is not anti semitic and that those saying he is are just trying to smear him and the Labour Party.

Maybe she wants the Jews at the BBC to were a badge so we know who they are, we all know how that sort of thing ends.

There may be a lot of Jews at the BBC, there is also probably a lot of Muslims, Christians, Hindus ect, it's a mixed bunch, it's got no relevance that's why people are jumping on your comment.

Yes, apparently Jewish people own and control all the banks, the media, the entertainment industry, all of the pawnshops and most of the world's treasures. FFS.

Making lists of who is Jewish smacks of that time on twitter when antisemites were indicating to each other who the Jews were by putting brackets around their names. Like “((Rachel Riley)) is rubbish on Countdown.”
Then people started putting brackets around their own name in solidarity and to confuse the racists.

Yawn! Looking forward to voting labour on 12th. Hope you can decide what’s best for you op, but please don’t vote Tory. This country is already on it’s knees.
The poorest and most vulnerable will not be able to withstand another five years of this😡

Can I point out that Robert Peston works for ITV now. You’d better update your spreadsheet Travelfan1.

" You are deliberately skirting being directly anti Semitic, and hiding behind your "oh! Funny you noticed!"

To be fair, Travelfan is only doing what the cult leader is doing.

Listing Jewish broadcasters now @Travelfan1 ? Waiting for the list of Buddhist ones, Hindu ones etc etc.
You clearly know that one of the standard ant-Semitic tropes is to say the media is controlled by Jews.
And yet you say "anti-semitic? moi?" Pathetic.

Travelfan you won't like me saying this, but your comments in support of Labour and Corbyn are looking much more like evidence of guilt as charged than the defence you think they are.

@Travelfan1

Please tell us you’re a plant, deployed to discredit the Labour Party. There really can’t be any other explanation for the things you’ve written.

It's the only kind explanation @recrudesence

Listing BBC journalists (that remain neutral) who are Jewish

Oh my what an idiot you are and this is the sort of person that is keeping the utterly useless Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party and the Tories in power

Well done

Yawn! Looking forward to voting labour on 12th. Hope you can decide what’s best for you op, but please don’t vote Tory. This country is already on it’s knees.
The poorest and most vulnerable will not be able to withstand another five years of this

@Travelfan1 is now trying to divert attention away from her anti Semitic comments by deliberately ignoring what she is being accused of. We see straight through you.

I wish that were the case, however from experience Travefan's behaviour is being reproduced across the Labour Party in CLP meetings, FB groups, the party conference, right up to NEC meetings (Pete Willsman's " Jewish Trump fans", "rabbis controlled by Israel"). This is why I am now voting against Labour having been a member and activist for nearly 40 years.

Am still waiting for anything anti-Semitic JC has actually uttered.

whereas Johnson: bank robbers, letter boxes, water melon smiles, picannies etc.

You'd possibly think the AS issue with JC has been promoted to avoid the Tory xenophobia and anti-islam.

And yes Laura Kuennsberg is a thoroughly odious individual. Spearheading BBC utter lack of impartiality. That news sections needs pulling apart.

MrPan - we don't expect better from twats like Johnson. We do expect better from tbe leader of the Labour Party. He gives them a safe space for what antisemites say and do.
You should be disgusted that the Labour Party does that.