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Thread #159827   Message #3792715
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-May-16 - 07:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Keith has done what Keith always does, uses partial quotes out of context, to blacken the name of Jackie Walker. Personally I think she was foolish to apply "holocaust" to any other event than The Holocaust. I hope she had her wrist slapped for that. She has a long history of fighting racism and is vehemently opposed to Israeli aggression towards Palestinians. Her point about perpetrators and victims was right on the money. Both she and her partner are of Jewish descent. Was she right about Jews and the slave trade? Either she was or she wasn't. I wouldn't have put things that way myself. Jews were involved in the slave trade. Not all Jews, and not all slave traders were Jews. Either we are allowed to talk about it or we are not. If we are, then Jews is the word we have to use. Taken in context, her remarks were, arguably, ill-advised. But they were not antisemitic, because she was not attacking Jews because they are Jews. Politicians need to have regard fo the potential outcome of their remarks. At present, Labour is under the spotlight apropos of alleged antisemitism. The real antisemites in our right-wing parties, in Israel and in the major religions must be laughing their socks off.