Labour and Antisemitism (Part II)

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Nice look at the photo of Pakistanis congratulating Khan on
1st Muslim Mayor of London who defatted Millionaire Jew Goldsmith. Anti-semtic? Nous?????????

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3578391/My-Sadiq-m-mayor-London-Khan-kicks-new-role-capital-hours-blasting-rival-Zac-Goldsmith-s-politics-fear-campaign.html

*not defatted defeated

Horrid racist banner and they can't even spell Zac's name correctly. I wonder how I would get on displaying a banner with a derogatory comment about the elected mayor's religion

Am i unreasonable for having mixed feelings about Khan as mayor? I am glad his wife doesn't cover her head so at least they are a moderate Muslim family. I also think its brilliant someone from a modest economic background is able to become a significant politician. On the other hand the fact that he was voted may signify a few other things. Did Labour put him up to send a message? Or did Labour select him as candidate because they knew with a large Muslim population that is mobilised into voting/postal voting by community leaders he stood a great chance? Goldsmith was not great in the campaign. Why did the tories not choose someone with stronger political credentials?

i mean did Labour select khan as candidate knowing he stood a reasonable chance and wanting to send a "fuck you" message to the rest of Britain?

I think the party just preferred him to the other candidates...
I would have too.
I think he'll be a good mayor- he's a unifier, he's clever and he distanced himself very well from that obsessive chump livingstone.

Why would Khan as a candidate be a 'fuck you' message to the rest of Britain?

The Blairite contingent of the Labour party didn't want Khan, they felt he was unelectable.

'' I wonder how I would get on displaying a banner with a derogatory comment about the elected mayor's religion confused''

Hop over to the other side of the Atlantic and you'd probably get away with it frankly. The International New York Times announced Khan's victory as ''Londoners pick Muslim to be city's new Mayor''.

"Why would Khan as a candidate be a 'fuck you' message to the rest of Britain?"

Oh come on, it's not as if the community he comes from is known for its peaceful, egalitarian cohesive stance, is it.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3579714/Sadiq-Khan-attends-Holocaust-memorial-act-Mayor-London-day-Labour-mayor-repeated-controversial-claims-Hitler-Zionist.html

I quite like the new mayor of London. :)

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Livingstone.

Given there are many in his own community let alone the Labour Party who would hate him for that action, I think it's quite a brave and bold (as well as symbolic) first act, and shows he's his own man.

I have a little bit of hope for the Labour Party now. Many only a Muslim can be allowed to point out how lunatic fringe the party was going. Like it took Gorbachev to end Communism from within.

Maybe only a Muslim... You know what I meant...

I think Khan is spot on with his attendance and also with telling Labour to start focusing on things that matter. Not bad for a first day.

Just bumping this thread to say that the Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, including Islamophobia, within the Labour Party, is inviting submissions on its website. The deadline is this Friday (10 June).

I'm coming late to this discussion but, after Ken Livingstone's predictably disgusting performance today at the inquiry, I just wanted to share something with anyone who doubts that the rise of the Hard Left has increased the acceptability of anti-semitism.
Last weekend, my 14 year old DD and her friend were walking through a park in London and chatting about my DD's bat mitzvah the previous year. They passed three adult men sitting on a bench who made them distinctly uncomfortable. One of them shouted out
'F*CKING JEWS'
at my child and her friend. They didn't care who heard them on that busy , sunny day in the park. The shouter seemed distinctly pleased to have scared two children.
We had thought this stuff was relegated to the dim and distant past but it doesn't take much more than a nudge to pop the cork and let the evil genie out of the bottle.