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Thread #159827   Message #3795133
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Jun-16 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
You have nothing to say, forum cheater, so why not put a sock in it.

I've never made an antisemitic remark in my life. For thirteen years of my teaching career I worked in rough schools in east London. Not once did I ever allow a racist remark in my classroom to pass. I'm quite proud of that, actually. I have a really simple definition of antisemitism that I stick to. You're an antisemite if you attack Jews BECAUSE THEY ARE JEWS. A remark that does not match that simple criterion cannot be antisemitic. I'm perfectly aware that remarks that don't directly attack Jews, but which are intended to disadvantage them in more subtle ways, can also be antisemitic. My antennae are tuned. I don't give a stuff what Israeli politicians say or whst pro-Israel lobbyists say. I don't give a stuff what discredited criteria, never adopted by the EU, say. I've fought racism all my life and I know what antisemitism is. I don't need some snivelling little forum-cheating gobshite and his Hertford henchman to tell me, thank you very much. Too many bloody miles on the clock.