"Unelectable" Jeremy Corbyn wins, again.

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In this week's least surprising news story, the vice chairperson of Momentum has been suspended for making anti semitic comments.

And in even less surprising news, the hard working activist in question, who has fought racial injustice for 40 years and is Jewish herself simply questioned why other atrocities which claimed a greater number of lives weren't included in holocaust memorial day. (Such as the murder of 100 million native inhabitants of what you now call the USA, 10 Million Africans killed by King Leopold of Belgium, 20 million Russians and eastern Europeans killed by Stalin, the millions killed by the forces of the British Empire....the list is depressingly long) Yet this simple and fair question is seized upon as antisemitism for political gain. I have a black triangle tattoo on my arm to commemorate the millions of disabled people killed in the same camps alongside millions of Russians, Gypsies, LGB people, trade unionists and left wing political activists. All murdered by the same Nazi's who killed the Jewish prisoners. Are they remembered in the same way? No. Why not? Why is that antisemitic to ask? Why were the people forced to wear a black triangle not commemorated on the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin? How is this antisemitic to point out the disparity between the value placed on peoples lives? It simply isn't. All lives matter in the end; is the fact that she is also a vocal black woman in a predominantly white male political sphere significant in the vitriol I wonder?

The Elephant in the room is that being critical of the Israeli government mistreatment of displaced Palestinians is not the same thing as antisemitism; however, right wing press will jump all over it to perpetuate their Pro-Zionist position and it is conflated as antisemitism. It is simply a device to stop criticism. Yet at the same time facebook closes hundreds of accounts of Palestinian Journalists and concerned activists to silence criticism. I'm sure there will be a response along the lines of, "Well they attack us, so we kill them!" I will not engage in that level of shite. The British Government and its people cannot cover up the part they played in the subjugation of the citizens of 114 countries we colonised, neither can anybody else who was involved in inhumane and immoral acts throughout history irrespective of their religion or creed, and that includes christians, muslims and jews. Failure to do so is far more offensive and proves we have not learned from our history, which I firmly believe we haven't done.

In the UK, the rampant xenophobia of the disgusting Brexit campaign have brought about a huge increase in racially aggravated attacks on British citizens and other racial minorities alike. Co-incidence? Close down criticism of the authorities and sow the seeds of racial hatred to give weak minds a scapegoat to take their frustrations out on rather than the Government/Authority itself. "It's all the foreigners fault, they come here taking our jobs, lazy bastards who will rape our women! But I am outraged you might have said something that somebody has said is antisemitic and you must resign immediately!" The areas who voted the highest to leave the EU had received the least amount of Government investment for decades and were part of a modern day 'managed decline' like the despicable and evil woman thatcher tried in Merseyside in the 80's and continued by the millionaire war criminals blair and cameron. Guess what, it didn't work and we socialists are still here!

In the meantime nobody reports the dozens of tory scum MP's caught committing election fraud or their concerted attacks on the poor whilst promoting tax fraud for the richest party contributors. The attacks on the support (financial or otherwise) for disabled people are constant and have directly led to thousands of suicides. But no, Mr Corbyn who has constantly supported disabled people like the majority on this forum, a free NHS available to all and a fair minimum wage so people can afford to feed their children without food banks is the villain. If Mr Corbyn is a Trotskyite, then by the same twisted logic, his critics are Fascists.

The system isn't broken, it was always fixed this way. However, a movement to reclaim power from the right has begun and none of your right wing bleating will stop it.

Not sure if that was aimed at me or whether it was just a general point, but I am very much on the left, I just think Corbyn is an appalling leader of people.

What on earth has her being Jewish got to do with anything? (Unless you are using a playground style insinuation that jews can't be antisemites etc)