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Thread #159827   Message #3792783
Posted By: Steve Shaw
30-May-16 - 06:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
The BBC report included the transcript from Facebook, which contained her whole sentence. There was no bold emphasis of any words. Here's what she actually wrote:

..and many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade which is of course why there were so many early synagogues in the Caribbean.

Until I dragged that out of you by challenging your partial quoting, here's what you said she said, and you put it in quotes:
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...wrote about "the African holocaust" and Jews as "chief financiers of the slave trade". "

The BBC was honest and neutral enough to follow its journalistic introduction with the full transcript. You were not. In spite of the fact that you left out the bit about sugar, and in spite of the fact that she didn't just say "Jews," and in spite of the fact that there was no bold emphasis in her remarks, you chose to convey to us with speech marks that you were quoting verbatim. You provided no link for us to check your quote. But I don't trust you, so I went to the trouble. It's quite clear that you were determined to tar Ms Walker with the antisemite brush.

"If some people at or near the top of FRA sought to suppress the definitions of anti-semitism, perhaps because of some personal agenda, they did not succeed."

A ridiculous accusation and a totally unjustified smear. If you have any evidence whatsoever for this, let's be having it. Are there no lengths you'll go to to save your miserable skin?