on June 27, 2022, 10:42 pm, in reply to ""As I find myself being blamed in this thread once more for Corbyn's loss in 2019...""
George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot
Aug 24, 2018
It dismays me to say it, as someone who has invested so much hope in the current Labour Party, but I think @shattenstone is right: Jeremy Corbyn's 2013 comments about "Zionists" were antisemitic and unacceptable.
theguardian.com
I still don't believe Corbyn is antisemitic – but his 'irony' comments unquestionably were | Simon...
There’s no reasonable defence of the Labour leader’s remarks about Zionists lacking English irony, says the Guardian features writer Simon Hattenstone
Instead of trying to spin these comments, I believe it is now imperative that Labour admits they were unjustifiable, and makes it crystal clear that no such sentiments should ever be aired by party members (or anyone), let alone the party leader.
As the Chakrabarti report pointed out, and as I see on Twitter frequently, "Zionists" is used as a code word for Jews. If you're going to use it, you have to make it *crystal clear* that this is not what you mean.
For fairness, here is another explanation of what Jeremy Corbyn said, which casts it in a very different light: https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1033129748246011909
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That addendum was the Alex Nunns thread that actually looked at what Corbyn had said re: Zionists (particular ones in the audience) and discovered that the put-down depended on assuming that they would have a better sense of irony, having lived in the UK, than the Palestinian ambassador they were haranguing. In other words THE ACTUAL explanation of Corbyn's remarks, not simply 'another', as the simplest journalistic investigation would have revealed. Discussed here: https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/archive/1535720398.html
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