The right-wing media just branded a Jewish Holocaust SURVIVOR as antisemitic to smear Jeremy Corbyn
With the sole intention of smearing Jeremy Corbyn, the right right press chose to label a now deceased 90 year old Jewish man – a man who literally survived the holocaust as a prisoner at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, whilst his parents were gassed to death – of himself being antisemitic.
In 2010, Jeremy Corbyn hosted an event in the House of Commons called Never Again for Anyone. The purpose of the event was to discuss the horrors of the holocaust, and gauge the opinions of those who had suffered through it in order to ensure that such atrocities never happen again.
The main speaker at the event was the widely-respected Jewish holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer, who, during his talk entitled The Misuse of the Holocaust for Political Purposes, he likened the Israeli government’s current policies to those of the Nazis.
[…] According to the widely-criticised IHRA definition of antisemitism, anybody making any comparison whatsoever between the Israeli government’s abhorrent actions to those of the Nazis is, in itself, antisemitic.
This very comparison led to a Jewish member of the Labour Party, Martin Odoni, finding himself suspended from the party for supposed antisemitism just this week, with Mr Odoni slamming the IHRA definition as ‘dangerously flawed’.
But now, for a literal survivor of the holocaust – a man who spent ten months at Auschwitz, and whose parents were gassed to death in the Nazi death camp – to be labelled as antisemitic himself, really is absolutely incredible.
Yet, in an ironic twist to this latest ridiculous attempt by the mainstream media to smear Corbyn, all they’ve really achieved is highlighting the fact that the IHRA definition of antisemitism – the definition which was amended by the Labour Party to specifically avoid these kinds of situations where literal holocaust survivors were being accused of hating Jews – is completely unfit for purpose.
If anybody in the entire world is ever qualified enough to give their opinions on what constitutes creeping fascism, it is surely a survivor of the Nazi holocaust.Maybe we should start listening to them a little more, and listening to the disgusting British media a hell of a lot less.
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