Donate Us

Help us keep this free site alive with a small contribution from you. Select an amount below.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019


The headlines say "Jeremy Corbyn apologises for antisemitism in Labour party" - but his words say no such thing.


Corbyn: May I make it clear, I am
Host: Just say sorry!
Corbyn: Wait a minute,
Host: No, just say sorry!
Corbyn:  Let me say can I say something? well our party...
Host: I want you to say 'sorry'
Corbyn, frustrated: Our party and me, yeah,do not accept anti-semitism in any form
Host: So are you sorry?
Corbyn: Obviously I’m very sorry for everything that’s happened but I want to make this clear I am dealing with it. I have dealt with it. Other parties are also affected by anti-Semitism, Candidates have been withdrawn by the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives and by us because we do not accept it in any form whatsoever.
And I think the chief rabbis comments really ought to be taken for what they are. He hasn't contacted me about it I'm very happy to meet him very happy to talk to him very happy to talk to any representatives of any part of the Jewish community within our society because I recognize that anti-semitism is a poison and it's very dangerous. When it's allowed to run on you know what happens you know the history of Europe in the 20th century.  But any other form of racism is equally unacceptable Islamophobia or anything else.
An apology would say what he is sorry for, not saying "sorry for everything that's happened." But then he negates even that fake apology by falsely claiming that he has dealt with it - and then tryng to deflect to "everyone else is antisemitic too."

Corbyn then says he is against Nazi-style antisemitism. Wow, how brave. And then he waters even that down by saying that it is just like other forms of bigotry, like Islamophobia - which even further negates whatever that "sorry" was.

In short - he never admitted Labour has an antisemitism problem. He never said he was sorry for his part in it. He only said the word "sorry" after being brow-beaten by the host several times, as reluctantly as possible. Corbyn then negated it by saying that Labour wasn't any worse than any other party in that respect. And he then further watered down the apology by comparing antisemitism to other forms of racism that Labour actually does spend time talking about, when in reality antisemitism is much different from other bigotries. In fact, the way the Left fights other bigotries fosters antisemitism by positioning everyone as either a victim or an oppressor: Jews - by being supposedly powerful - are always looked upon as the oppressors, never the victims, in a simplistic Leftist world where you can only be one or the other.



We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israel.

0 comments:

Post a Comment

EoZTV Podcast

Powered by Blogger.

follow me

search eoz

Recent posts from other blogs

subscribe via email

comments

Contact

translate

E-Book

source materials

reference sites

multimedia

source materials for Jewish learning

great places to give money

media watch

humor

.

Source materials

Sample Text

EoZ's Most Popular Posts Ever

follow me

Followers


pages

Random Posts

Pages - Menu

Elder of Ziyon - حـكـيـم صـهـيـون

Donate!

Tweets

Compliments

Monthly subscription:
Subscription options

One time donation:

Interesting Blogs

Categories

Best posts of 2016

Blog Archive

compliments

Algemeiner: "Fiercely intelligent and erudite"

Omri: "Elder is one of the best established and most respected members of the jblogosphere..."
Atheist Jew:"Elder of Ziyon probably had the greatest impression on me..."
Soccer Dad: "He undertakes the important task of making sure that his readers learn from history."
AbbaGav: "A truly exceptional blog..."
Judeopundit: "[A] venerable blog-pioneer and beloved patriarchal figure...his blog is indispensable."
Oleh Musings: "The most comprehensive Zionist blog I have seen."
Carl in Jerusalem: "...probably the most under-recognized blog in the JBlogsphere as far as I am concerned."
Aussie Dave: "King of the auto-translation."
The Israel Situation:The Elder manages to write so many great, investigative posts that I am often looking to him for important news on the PalArab (his term for Palestinian Arab) side of things."
Tikun Olam: "Either you are carelessly ignorant or a willful liar and distorter of the truth. Either way, it makes you one mean SOB."
Mondoweiss commenter: "For virulent pro-Zionism (and plain straightforward lies of course) there is nothing much to beat it."
Didi Remez: "Leading wingnut"