@simsa0 Happy to look at some specific examples. Luciana Berger case was hugely significant. She claimed Corbyn was antisemitic (mural), and she had been victim of awful online antisemitic abuse (true) from Labour Party members (can’t find much if any evidence to support that claim).
Read moreGood analysis of the (lack of) evidence. x.com/Jonathan_K_Coo…
Read more@simsa0 It’s Trumpian, where racists declare anti-racists to be racist and it sticks because the media laps it up uncritically and without any investigation to uncover truth.
Read more@simsa0 Re: ‘going berserk’ - I would argue that it is the Right that has lost it’s collective marbles. One of the chief witchfinders wore blackface and a pineapple on his head to ridicule a black sportsman purely for lols, and has never apologised let alone lost his position.
Read more@simsa0 And the Left’s handling of AS accusations was very poor, but that was partly because the Right in the Labour Party deliberately prevented the Left from dealing with it to make the Left look bad, and partly because the Left accepted allegations that don’t bear scrutiny.
Read more@simsa0 I agree that anti-semitic ideas, tropes, attitudes are embedded in British imperial culture. Like all racism is. It’s what ‘we’ specialise in. There needs to be a much wider acknowledgement of that and a real willingness to put it right.
Read more@simsa0 2/ there are a lot of opinions flying about. In Germany BDS is antisemitic in law? But not in the UK (afaik). ‘…responsibility for the conflict is squarely placed on the Israelis.’ Is that really true? Media is silent about Israeli atrocities.
Read more@simsa0 1/ ‘There are enough people in who would count these remarks as revealing his anti-semitism.’ Possibly, but you have to ask yourself why is that? When Corbyn became Labour leader, I was one of those saying it was a mistake etc. Why? Because that’s what I’d been told by media.
Read more@simsa0 @kennardmatt I saw you posted these videos to Luke the other day. I don’t see how they support your argument at all, sorry. If you are pinning it on his use of ‘friends’ then you do not understand how British or English politeness and UK parliament works, I’m afraid.
Read more@jimmcquaid @purpleairq Any ideas what might be causing the smell of petrol, tar and mothballs in Southall (nextdoor to the old gasworks which is being remediated and developed into housing)? We’re told it’s unpleasant to snuff, but harmless to health by authorities!
Read moreComplainant, expert witness for the prosecution, prosecuting barrister, judge, jury, and executioner. Plus a pretty neat unconscious typo, predictive text, or Freudian slip. x.com/_petermason/st…
Read more@_petermason @GregoryStafford You did well to get away with an apology, there @GregoryStafford! t.co/KjbNVCQW5…
Read more@_petermason @GregoryStafford I would ask Cllr Mason, but he refuses to answer any questions.
Read more@_petermason Can you confirm this @GregoryStafford - what were the concerns that Cllr Mason voiced?
Read more@CASHcampaigners @_petermason He already told us two years ago that he cannot, and will not, do anything, and he’s been as good as his word on that, tbf. He is the expert on racism, and if he has literally done nothing then I don’t see how we can argue that his actions have had any racist impact at all?
Read more@CASHcampaigners @_petermason No, no, no! Peter is a lifelong anti-racist! It’s the system that is racist. Nothing to do with him.
Read more@CASHcampaigners @_petermason Peter is committed to operating a racist system. It pays the rent. It’s ‘unpleasant’ for Peter’s brown and black constituents to be forced by his developer pals to breathe poison gas in their own homes. But it won’t last forever. It’s good that we keep reporting it!
Read more@jonburkeUK @LiverpoolWande1 @livingstreets @London_Cycling @CleanAirUK @peterwalker99 @laura_laker @RKWinvisibleman @mragilligan @Georgia_Gould @Labourstone @RichardWatts01 Ealing is Labour in name only. Council Leader admitted the LTNs are an opportunistic covid moneygrab, implemented in areas already low in traffic. Meanwhile Labour council is happy to concrete over the borough with tower blocks and refuse to #StopPoisioningSouthall.
Read more@_petermason @LabourList According to your article in July, this is how ‘antisemitism entered the Labour Party’: x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read more@CASHcampaigners @_petermason Selective engagement. x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read more@_petermason @hilarywise99 Jonathan Freedland, Margaret Hodge, Stephen Pollard & Lee Harpin, Melanie Phillips, all made false accusations. More generally: jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/statement/rebu…
Read more@_petermason Why don’t you answer any questions? x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read more@_petermason Any thoughts?x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read more@_petermason Solidarity, Peter? x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
Read more@DanielFooksArt @PeteOnTheA419 @CMonehen 0.06% here! x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu…
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