- Graeber flashback
Posted by Ian M
on October 3, 2025, 6:05 pm, in reply to "Open season on Corbyn & Sultana..."
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(1:37) 'When Brown Shirts hit the street, when the Nazis show up and start taking people away. The guys who are out there defending the Jewish neighbourhood, will tend to be the radical left. Basically will tend to be exactly the people that were being targeted, so it's crazy to go after them and to ignore the right.' So in hounding Corbyn, Sultana and any other left figure standing up for the Palestinians zionists are attacking and undermining the capacity and willingness of the very people who will stand up for Jewish people when the right turns on them, as they always do. I'd say they were shooting themselves in the foot, but then it fits with their ideology that Jews don't belong anywhere except for in their beloved apartheid ethnostate, so they might not care if nobody stands in solidarity with Jewish people in that scenario, because it will just act as a greater stimulus for migration to israel. Re-post of Graeber discussing the a/s scam and the graun's role in it on twitter shortly before he died: ***** David Graeber @davidgraeber · Dec 26, 2019 as for the Guardian, we will never forget that during the "Labour #antisemitism controversy", they beat even the Daily Mail to include the largest percentage of false statements, pretty much every one, mysteriously, an accidental error to Labour's disadvantage  this is the "cred" they built up by publishing people like me, .@OwenJones84, .@GeorgeMonbiot, .@chakrabortty - all of whom I very much respect. They used us so no one would believe they would simply lie to destroy any chance of a left gov't. But that's exactly what they did. if you add up false with misleading, 90% of Guardian news articles on IHRA controversy were designed to trick the reader into falsely believing Labour was institutionally #antisemitic. This was an historical crime against truth. Who were editors? They need to be shamed for this. Some further comments... 'Black Conch @BlackConch · Dec 27, 2019 The Guardian is like the Labour Party: a vehicle that may one day yet be made suitable for driving the road to socialism. The public has forced change on Labour, whereas the Guardian remains stuck on Blair's sofa. David Graeber @davidgraeber Replying to @BlackConch the Labour Party is a mass organisation that can ultimately be controlled by its membership, though they make it very difficult. The Guardian is a private corporation controlled by its executive board. Black Conch @BlackConch Replying to @davidgraeber True... After we nationalise the sausages, next port of call will be the Guardian boardroom. In all seriousness, Labour leadership looked a firmly closed shop, yet it cracked in the end. Maybe journalists could unite and exert pressure? Chris Richards @EclecticRadical · That assumes the journalists are on our side. David Graeber @davidgraeber Replying to @EclecticRadical and @BlackConch the ones at the Guardian certainly either are not on our sides, or in some bizarre state of denial. I've talked to what seem genuine leftists who work for the Guardian who act genuinely shocked & confused when I tell them some of this stuff. [...] David Graeber @davidgraeber · It's a real judgment call and it took me a while to figure out what I was being complicit in as well. As an anarchist Im less willing to be used but I'm also against doctrinaire attitudes: people have to be free to call these things for themselves [tweets deleted by author - Owen Jones replied??] David Graeber @davidgraeber · Why then does only the "left" try to be even-handed? Anyway if it was a both-sides thing why do all the errors go just one way? Peter @Deixis9 · but it still does give you and these writers a platform where you can share your ideas with a wider audience. imagine the G without these voices... why not put this into a piece for the G, see what happens? David Graeber @davidgraeber Replying to @Deixis9 @watermelonpunch and 3 others you don't get it. People have. I have. They don't print it. They directly censored my pieces if I tried to write about Corbyn. I tried the other approach. They played me. [...] EzzieWilf@ez ziewilf · As it was meant to destroy the reputation & confidence of the opposition before an election it was also a crime against the environment, against people who have died (or who will die) from Tory policy; against education & the NHS; against internationalism. That kind of shame! David Graeber @davidgraeber Replying to @ezziewilf and @pyrmontvillage precisely - you lie systematically to discredit the opposition that is intending to wipe out rough sleeping and child hunger, and they lose, you have to accept some responsibility for the result Craig Hall alt-text @w41gy · The Tories are back in power, job done. David Graeber @davidgraeber Replying to @w41gy so now they'll pretend to be SO against them |