Victim of anti-Semitism attacks right-wingers who make ‘mockery’ of the problem [STRONG LANGUAGE]
(Incidentally, this is the only definition of anti-Semitism anybody needs.)
Kerry-Anne Mendoza of The Canary put me onto this – a Twitter thread by Michael Segalov, prompted by the anti-Semitic and misogynistic Kevin Myers article in the Irish Sunday Times, and unrealistic right-wing attempts to blame the Labour Party.
Yes, that’s what they’ve done! See this tweet:
https://twitter.com/JournoStephen/status/891686655266050049
What an idiot. As someone who has been on the wrong side of Labour’s treatment of people accused of anti-Semitism, I can assure readers that the party takes all allegations seriously and acts upon them immediately – even nonsense claims like those that were raised against me.
Anyone accused of such behaviour is suspended pending investigation. That’s what happened to me in May, and I’m still suspended now; I have complained to the police that the allegations against me – made while I was a candidate in local elections – are criminal in nature and their slow and careful consideration of this is holding up everything else (or should be).
That’s my experience, as a person who has been accused of anti-Semitism by members of the uptight right.
Mr Segalov’s experience is that of a Jew who has been subjected to it – again, by members of the right-wing of UK politics. I hope I’m not overstepping the line by publishing his entire thread, which I think deserves to be preserved for posterity:
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891716564784992257
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891717286393991168
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891717800271765506
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891718241944563713
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891719129534795776
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891719819049017345
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891720347506143232
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891721212086431744
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891721919862644736
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891723091843457024
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891735678865858560
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891771595924090881
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891773185301106690
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891775591904628737
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891776272354955264
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891777375276544002
https://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/891778616337600512
Bravo.
Mr Segalov puts his Twitter finger on the point I made in my article yesterday – that allegations of anti-Semitism are being used to silence reasonable debate, with the culprits jumping on the bandwagon every time a genuine anti-Semite turns up, in order to claim some form of legitimacy for their own behaviour.
The Daisley tweet at the top of this article is a classic example as it straddles both lines of attack.
I was vilified and accused because I tried to discover the facts behind the accusations made against Naz Shah, Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker. The aim was to silence me – or to put people off reading my work.
Instead, people are at last turning against the “trash” who are “weaponising anti-Semitism for political gain”.
It has taken a while because, as pointed out (again) in my article yesterday, a lot of people are very afraid – but it is happening. More and more people are speaking out against unreasonable outbursts like those of Stephen Daisley and Dan Hodges (whoever he is) – and there is a groundswell of investigation into the claims made by the anti-Semitism accusers.
Because we don’t need these people to point out an anti-Semite. We can see them perfectly clearly for ourselves.
And their lies are holding back the fight against that enemy.
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Thank you for that, Sir.
Well said Mike and agree completely re the silencing of debate around the Palestinian Israel situation.
It is a despicable situation engineered by the few to try and stop any criticism of the Israeli Govt and its murderous actions.Anyone who tries to genuinely clarify the situation or as in Jackie Walkers case get some workable language to discuss and try and help alleviate the situation , is vilified and castigated as anti-Semitic . The stupid disingenuous sheep then jump on the band wagon to try and prove their whiter than white unbiased credentials as MPs / Officials in Labour , ending in a climate of fear to even mention the word Jew.
This is tragic as within the walls of Labour we should be able to discuss and debate the issues of this conflict to be able to form an unbiased opinion derived from those open and honest debates .
It would be illuminating if the Labour Friends Of Israel were to come forth with a clear unambiguous statement on their position regarding the conflict between That State and Palestine and the oppression of the Palestinians .
I say, again, what makes Jews a special case? If we cease to give anti-Jewish racism its own special category, perhaps more people will stand with them, for racism is racism is racism and is easily identified. Perhaps, that will also make it harder for people to weaponise it and use it to silence people. One doesn’t have to be “black,” “brown,” “yellow,” “red,” have fat lips, natty hair, or a flat nose to experience racism, nor to know what it is yet no other racial, or ethnic group has its own, special form of it; they all share it. Jews were not the only people to be murdered in their millions, nor ostracised, nor politically and economically disadvantaged, nor any of the things that are mentioned so, why do they wish to suffer alone? Too often, we are divided and in my opinion, anti-Semitism divides us yet further.