Jonathan Cook - Baddiel’s hollow racism apology to Jason Lee
Posted by johnhol on November 24, 2022, 10:15 pm
Asked by the ex-footballer who his allies against antisemitism are, the Jewish comedian was flummoxed. That’s because he has thrown his lot in with racists.
I thought this was a superb piece which exposed the dishonesty of Baddiel's campaign.
In his own documentary, Baddiel was a little less magnanimous in covering the same ground. He framed repeated criticisms on social media of his racism towards Lee, and his hypocrisy, as cyber-bullying – and used those examples to shore up the argument that his treatment, as a Jew, was exceptional and different.
Safely on the media turf he controlled, it sounded a lot more like Lee had got his belated apology only because Baddiel had been shamed into making it, or because Baddiel viewed it as the penitence needed before he could occupy the moral high ground on TV while demanding the right to be judged differently for his own racism.
I'm surprised the Barking Yenta hasn't gone after that as an anti-semitic trope!...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
A doorstepping by Lord John Mann can't be far off for the Cook.
on November 24, 2022, 10:15 pm