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The running theme with most of these "critical thinking" pieces about Labour anti-Semitism is that, whether they repeat the canard that Corbyn, Livingstone, or others are anti-Semitic, the problem is them. Corbyn shouldn't have spoken at this event or that event, that Livingstone apparently should never speak at all, etc. etc. And it's a complete crock of shit. The writer makes it appear that anti-Semitism actually is pervasive in British society (it isn't) and that Pal activists should be more careful about where they speak or what they say, lest they somehow validate the creeping anti-Semitism. But not a single one of the quotes from Livingstone actually evinces any anti-Semitism (and in fact many are standard if not prerequisite views on the Left), and there is no indication that any of the "anti-Semitism" at the various events Corbyn spoke at were anything more than the kind of standard angry rhetoric one hears at Leftist events or the kind of chauvinist rhetoric one hears in every sensitive race-related topic. For the author, who appears to be struggling with his own position in this affair given how contradictory his views are, somehow the jeers about anti-Semitism are fundamentally different and even things like being at the same conference as elected Palestinian leaders like Khaled Meshaal are things to do reluctantly. In some ways these pieces are even worse than the standard garbage being slung at Corbyn, because they appear to come from a place of support despite having the same practical effect, which is to force Leftists and Pal activists to aggressively police themselves and their own organizations and create the same dangerous chilling effect using the spectre of anti-Semitism. Amith R. Gupta On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 7:01 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > > https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/how-to-think-clearly-about-anti-semitism-controversies-in-the-labour-party > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
