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Thread #160410   Message #3811920
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
29-Sep-16 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Labour party discussion
Subject: RE: BS: Labour party discussion
Holocaust Day is in fact supposed to be about all the other victims of genocide as well as the Jews who were killed by the Nazis. This tends to be ignored, which is what Jackie Walker ( herself of Jewish descent) was pointing out.

The slur of "antisenite" is increasingly used as a political weapon against people who are in no way antisemitic. Using it in this way is disrespectful of real victims of antisemitism, both in the past and in the present. It devalues the very term to use it in this way,