The danger of idle words: Willsman receives death threat after opponents’ anti-Semitism lie
This should be a matter of serious concern to everybody with an interest in free speech and democracy.
The faked-up claims of anti-Semitism against Peter Willsman have led to him receiving death threats.
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I would like to hear how Mr Willsman’s accusers justify what they have done, in the light of this threat.
What does Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, have to say for herself?
How about Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, who published the vile allegations without paying a scrap of attention to proper journalistic procedures like fact-checking?
Come to that, the recording was said to have been made by a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee who ‘phoned in’ their participation. How does this person feel about having possibly endangered Mr Willsman’s life for a lie?
Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust? How does a person whose career is about educating people against behaviour that leads to mass murder feel about her own involvement in the potential endangerment of a single life?
And what about Labour MPs Tom Watson and Luciana Berger, who also passed censorious opinions? They are both right-wingers while Mr Willsman is a lefty – is retaking control of the party so important to them that they are willing to run a risk to life and limb?
Even fellow lefty Owen Jones has questions to answer, having accepted the allegation without question and then passing a prejudicial opinion about it on Twitter.
Careless talk still costs lives. The murder of Labour MP Jo Cox is still a recent memory, yet these ambitious political operators are perfectly happy to risk repeating that tragedy. They must be made to answer for their words.
Labour National Executive Committee (NEC) member Peter Willsman was at the centre of controversy after a recording of his comments during an NEC meeting was leaked to the media.
The comments were presented as antisemitic, but a proper examination of what was actually said, rather than the framing by media and ‘centrist’ MPs, showed that while crass they were not racist.
Such facts appear not to have troubled some, however – as Willsman has today received a death threat as a recorded message on his voicemail, saying:
You racist c**t. We know where you are. We’re coming to get you and spread your blood all over the pavement.
It’s to be hoped that this is a sick attempt to frighten, but the incident lays out very clearly the risks involved when one faction targets an opponent for political gain.
Source: Willsman receiving death threats after misrepresented NEC comments | The SKWAWKBOX
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If it wasn’t shocking enough to have Willsman falsely smeared by a member of the NEC and for that to be propagated by others in the Labour party, this nasty turn of events leaves one shaken to the core. Peter Willsman has done so much for the CLPD over many years, this is such a tragedy.
It also shows how far down the road of mob rule we have gone in the UK. The attacks on individuals (Corbyn, Willsman, yourself) have happened within the wider society where abusing “othered” scapegoated groups has been encouraged and normalised by the govt and MSM . When are we going to take a collective step back from this brink?
Zionism is a murderous supremacist cult, don’t be surprised the indoctrinated filth and useful idiots it employs are keen to make such threats.
Again, the Jews are not a race so, it is not racism. We seem to be in a political climate, in which people react to what Media tell them, usually out of context and paraphrased, often to give a completely different meaning, rather than to the facts of any given incident. With regard to anti-Semitism and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance “working definition,” Kenneth Stern, the lead drafter said this, “it was not drafted to label anyone an antisemite.” So why and why is it that, seemingly, none of our journalists can be bothered to find out the truth? Or is it that they can, they, or their editors, choose, simply not to publish it?