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since @LabourAgainstAS seem to have gone a little coy about this, I'll take an educated guess at what's in their 'substantial body of evidence' against me...
1. They'll accuse me of sharing a platform with Jackie Walker whom I have publicly criticised... https://twitter.com/jrschlosberg/status/1360298829283811335
1. They'll accuse me of sharing a platform with Jackie Walker whom I have publicly criticised... https://twitter.com/jrschlosberg/status/1360298829283811335
Because like anyone with an ounce of sanity, I don't believe a person with Jewish heritage who then chooses to marry and spend their life with another person from an orthodox Jewish family, who observes Jewish rituals and customs, actually hates Jews...
2. They'll say I defended/supported/campaigned for Chris Williamson because I objected to his suspension and believe that, like Ken Livingstone, people who say insensitive and silly things sometimes are not necessarily antisemitic...
and, more importantly, I believe it dangerously trivialises antisemitism to label them as such... 3. They'll claim I 'denied' antisemitism within Labour in spite of the fact that I have explicitly acknowledged it in every single output that I have published on the topic...
4. They'll say that I'm 'part of the problem' because I have argued that antisemitism in Corbyn's Labour was hugely distorted by the mainstream press and broadcasters...
a claim based on rigorous evidence which of course @Labouragainstas and their ilk have never engaged with because any sort of real evidence fatally undermines their McCarthyite project...
5. They'll say I'm a member of JVL which, unlike @Labouragainstas and their ilk, is actually exclusively directed and represented by Jews, all of whom have never denied antisemitism within Labour and some of whom - like me - even identify as progressive Zionists...
6. They'll point out that I've been critical of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, for exactly the same reasons that the person who actually drafted the definition has argued passionately against its use on campuses (but who needs facts when you've got 'alternative' facts)...
7. They'll say I publicly spoke out against the EHRC report and the grossly unjust suspension of Jeremy Corbyn. Because now, in their increasingly warped McCarthyist minds, even criticising an obviously flawed report by a widely discredited public body = antisemitism...
8. They'll say I co-authored an article that critically examined the contents of the #LeakedLabourReport because discussing actual evidence of corruption and mishandling of antisemitism complaints by factional party officials is, of course, antisemitic...
9. They'll say I referred to groups like Board of Deputies as the "right wing Jewish lobby" because a) they're a Jewish group that lobbies b) their political positions - especially on Israel - are generally right of centre and c) they are distinguished from a left Jewish lobby...
but again, those are just facts! And just like the QAnon, Truther and Birther movements have taught us, a 'substantial body of evidence' doesn't actually require them...
Worst of all, their 'body of evidence' will certainly omit the slightest acknowledgement that I am a proud Jew who has faced actual antisemitism on numerous occasions throughout my life...
and that I have been constantly outspoken about the need to recognise and deal robustly with antisemitism within Labour and the left more widely...
But on a positive note, @Labouragainstas at least provide a helpful reminder that there continue to be several institutions - including the PLP and the Jewish Chronicle - that are dominated or run by non-Jewish people...
who feel perfectly comfortable targeting Jews in their vicious campaign aimed at delegitimising progressive politics in Britain, gripped by the fear that it might one day again expose their political careerism for what it is, or their vacuous propaganda dressed up as 'journalism'
