Virginia Blackburn
JUST how much worse can it get, this stench of antiSemitism coming from the heart of the Labour Party? Every time you think they can’t sink any lower they do: a long-term association with Holocaust deniers and Hitler defenders; the defence of a man (Sheikh Raed Salah) who said Jews cook with children’s blood; a mural that could have come straight out of the Goebbels’ guide to propaganda; routinely throwing out the word “zio” as an insult; and now this latest row over Jeremy Corbyn attending a dinner with the peculiar group Jewdas. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Now even Momentum is seeking to distance itself from some of the worst excesses. Just how has it come to this?
Those of us who are not Jewish are being warned that we too should be concerned because this disgusting racist bile is a sign of the real face of the current Labour Party and it will come to encroach upon us too. That’s as maybe but speaking as a WASP, possibly the most privileged group of people who has ever existed, I am far more worried about Jeremy Corbyn bankrupting the country than allowing hatred to build up against WASPs as he has against Jews.
I am though terrified about what he is doing to the Jewish community in this country, a people that has suffered like no other and now, a mere 70 years after the Holocaust, is seeing the reawakening of an ancient hatred that has lasted millennia. And it is happening right at the heart of our political life.
Jeremy Corbyn is clearly not overburdened in the brains department so apart from some dim association between Jews and his much-loathed capitalism, probably doesn’t understand what is really going on. But the same cannot be THIS tweet from Tim Dawson has been doing the rounds on social media: *logs into twitter *discovers the Labour Party’s last hope is Eddie Izzard *logs out of twitter Ha ha!
WOULD YOU TURN OUT TO BE SAINT OR SINNER?
IRONIC that Winnie Mandela died just around the time of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. The latter was a remarkable figure in the fight for racial equality and the former most certainly was not, having committed crimes herself which were quite as bad as any of her opponents. Some of us well remember Winnie’s references to “necklacing” – actually tying a burning tyre to a person – and the death of poor 14-year-old Stompie Moeketsi, killed by Winnie’s thugs.
But the Mandela story does show the way that great suffering can be the making or breaking of you. Both Nelson and Winnie Mandela suffered terribly at the hands of the authorities and while he became a living saint she went in the opposite direction. Judge not. None of us know in similar circs how we’d turn out. ACCORDING to a new report, losing your home and going broke can have a bad effect on your health. And in other news, the Pope is revealed to be of the Catholic persuasion, while quite often bears avail themselves of the sanitary facilities to be found in the woods.