Organisers of antisemitism march defend move to invite Nigel Farage
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Organisers of antisemitism march defend move to invite Nigel Farage
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Inviting the leader of a party with at least 5 councillors denying the Holocaust is certainly a move
Inviting Farage and not Polanski seems intentionally political. Invite both or neither, but not just one. No one cares about comments Farage made at school 50 years ago by the way before anyone brings that up.
Ignoring Farage’s own antisemitism plus members of his parties antisemitism is a move.
Whenever you see “the Board of Deputies of British Jews” cited in an article, it’s never followed by “did something good”.
I don’t know the first thing about them, but for the past few years, they’ve only ever popped up in the media in the context of “spoke out in support of the Conservatives” or in this case, in support of Britain’s far-right fascism-adjacent party, Reform.
At risk of being unintentionally antisemitic, I have to say that, as a broadly centre-left, socialism-sympathetic individual, I wouldn’t invite those guys to my birthday party.
Invited along to condemn his antisemitic views en masse….right?
Fuck Farage and clearly there a political motivation here but Labour never managed to shake the harm done by Jeremy “my friends in Hamas and Hezbollah” Corbyn.
I’m sure the (as blind as Farage supporters) Corbyn supporters will be here soon downvoting me into oblivion.
Just further evidence of weaponising Antisemetism allegations
>Organisers of antisemitism march
Is it like, a march in support of antisemitism, or…? Did they think they might need someone to whistle the Horst Wessel Lied to start them off?
The racists are happily using the genocide in gaza to be openly anti semetic while at th3 same time using the attacks of Jewish people and the criticism of israel to be even more racist, really do play all sides must be hard to remember who you are hating hour to hour
Happened to walk by this earlier and the number of Israeli flags was quite surprising.
We know what marches Farage went on! Few politicians in this country have done so much to stoke racial hatred as him, and yet here he is, being presented like an anti-racism campaigner, while Zack Polanski isn’t invited. It makes the event looks hollow. Just more of the right being given a pass on racism.
Given the last couple month of news about them, I absolutely agree the greens shouldn’t be invited.
But given the last 25 years, neither should anyone associated with farage.
Staggering hypocrisy. Why didn’t they invite Tommy Robinson as well?
Polanski wasn’t invited “because he hasn’t done enough to root out antisemitism in his party”. Meanwhile, Farage, who heads a party that has just had holocaust deniers elected as its councillors, gets an invite. Tells you all you need to know.
Inviting Farage while Excluding Zack.
One has a history of explicitly antisemitic remarks, alongside head of the party with the highest % of voters with antisemitic opinions. But is Zionist.
The other is literally Jewish, and has faced numerous antisemitic attacks including from the media establishment. But is antizionist.
This isn’t a march against antisemitism, this is a march for Zionism.
Get your heads out the sand folks. Reform came out on top of this week’s local elections. Of course a group that wants influence will invite their leader.
Making it extremely clear what their motivations are.
They’re just Tories and the BoD is a toxic, right wing organisation that seeks to meddle politically to push their disgusting views.
Let’s face it, the British media establishment and the right-wing believe there are acceptable (and therefore easily dismissable) forms of antisemitism.
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Yeah because this “antisemitism march” was actually a political march in support of Israel, not really much to do with antisemitism, so inviting the pro-Israel Reform and not the pro-Palestine Greens is very much in their politics.