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Thread #159827   Message #3792802
Posted By: Jim Carroll
30-May-16 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
"It was the first three sentences of the BBC report."
""Jonathan Sacerdoti, of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: "If the Labour Party has truly readmitted a member ....!

Some of the facts Keith conveniently ignored in his selection of evidence for Antisemitism in the Lablor Party - the main one being that the evidnce is coming directly from pro-Israel activists.

But Sacerdoti is exactly the opposite of a disinterested 'expert' voice on the ongoing violence. Just two years ago he was Director of Public Affairs for the Zionist Federation, perhaps the loudest and most shrill pro-Israel lobby group in the UK.

The day after Israel killed nine activists on the Mavi Marmara flotilla, he appeared defending that attack on Al Jazeera and on Sky News. In August 2011 he spoke at a pro-Israel rally in Trafalgar Square organised by the British Israel Coalition and supported by the Israeli government-linked StandWithUs.

On 6 July 2010 he met Israeli President Shimon Peres and uploaded an entire album on to Flickr documenting the occasion. He captioned a photo of him shaking hands with Peres,'Jonathan Sacerdoti, of Her Majesty's Secret Service'.

Sacerdoti has worked with Brenner to make a 'Buy Israeli Goods Day' video intended to counter the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement's call not to buy goods made in Israel or by companies complicit in the occupation. He was also elected to the Board of Deputies of British Jews' International Division, a committed pro-Israel body. In May 2010 Sacerdoti reportedly spoke publicly about 'ways to use Facebook, Twitter and other online resources to advocate for Israel' at a Zionist Federation Israel advocacy event called 'Talk for Israel'.
It is clear that Sacerdoti is a committed pro-Israel activist. But viewers were given a distorted impression about his background by BBC news.
Who is Jonathan Sacradoti

A pretty obvious propaganda plot, I'd say.
BBC fesses up
Jim Carroll