Natalia’s Reviews > Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters > Status Update

‘Antisemitism waxes and wanes, but sometimes it catches fire […] This stuff spreads.

‘That’s why it matters. It matters because it smells. It rots the body politic. It leads to worse, and it renders rational thought incapable […] It destroys normal evidence-based rational thought’

‘If it is possible while self-identifying as an anti-racist to hold vile opinions about Jews, to think that Jews are not properly British, to conflate Jews and Israel, to see them as capitalists and the elite, and still say you’re an anti-racist, there’s a gas seeping out that will eventually kill us all. If you cannot see or feel these things, then you are a racist’

Corbyn conflating Zionism with simply being Jewish. Spoke in generalising terms: ‘British Zionists have no sense of English irony, having lived in this country for a long very time, probably most of their lives’. Here he means Jews. Zionism is a political term which doesn’t make sense being read here.

In the Labour Party, conflation of Zionism with Nazism. Ken Livingstone likened Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard? Corbyn took a long while to respond & after Livingstone’s comments that ‘Hitler was a Zionist’, he was not expelled from the party (?????????)

Antisemitism = racism