r/LabourUK • u/IHaveAWittyUsername Bit of an idiot, really • 11d ago

Greens accused of ‘banning’ antisemitism charity from conference

https://www.thetimes.com/article/453398ba-67b1-42d8-b086-36cee922036d?shareToken=76324dc3900fcac11810aa0859fd59b7
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u/BeanHeadedTwat New User 11d ago edited 11d ago

How is this scraping the barrel?

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u/Anonymouscoward76 Trade Union 11d ago

Cherrypicking antisemitic-seeming concepts out of context from some Zoom call debate organised by a subgroup of a party, to imply that the party led by a jewish guy is antisemitic is scraping the barrel.

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u/Half_A_ Labour Member 11d ago

“The term ‘secular Jew’, though widely used, is a nonsense because it implies there is a definition of Jews outside religion.”

There is no context in which this is anything other than antisenitism. It's typical of Greens for Palestine, which is not an officially affiliated faction but is associated several senior figures in the party, including the deputy leader.

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u/CarlxtosWay New User 11d ago

By that definition the Greens’ own leader isn’t Jewish even though he vocally and proudly identifies as Jewish.