Far right comes out for Jeremy Corbyn

[Squire Robertsson]

From the London Times Far right comes out for Jeremy Corbyn

MP poised to quit over Labour leader’s ‘Zionist’ slur as ex-BNP and Ku Klux Klan chiefs show support

Far-right leaders rallied behind Jeremy Corbyn and a senior Labour MP called him a racist antisemite after a film emerged of him giving a speech on “Zionists” in Britain.

Nick Griffin, former head of the British National Party, and David Duke, an ex-grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, issued supportive tweets in response to the video.

Mike Gapes, a former chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee, told fellow Labour MPs: “I am not prepared to support the racist antisemite. Period. It’s over for me.” SNIP​

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[Matt Black]

T'other side of t'coin:

Why the man who drafted the IHRA definition condemns its use

Hardly surprising that Griffin and his far right troglodytes have made the schoolboy error of conflating anti-Zionism with anti-semitism: they are, after all, not very bright....

Corbyn's made his own errors, particularly in the past, and is now much more careful about using the 'Z'-word, precisely because this ignorant conflation is sadly widespread

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Matt, it would help if you weren't so terse. Mind you, I did quote the London Times which I assume you hold to be a responsible newspaper.

 

[Matt Black]

Sorry, written in haste!

 

[Aaron]

Matt, it would help if you weren't so terse. Mind you, I did quote the London Times which I assume you hold to be a responsible newspaper.

He just wanted to get the word, "troglodyte" out.

 

[Matt Black]

But of course!