Erasmus wrote:Well, Rowls, that is an absolute non-response to the point about your confusing anti-Zionism with anti-semitism in the Labour Party, which your post epitomises. What do you think about that issue? The fact is that you posted an example of anti-Zionism when the request was for examples of anti-semitism, thereby confusing the two.
Oh, you're actually engaging the issue? Thank the Lord!
What's the difference between "anti-Zionism" and anti-semitism?
Hmmmmmmmm?
That's the million dollar question isn't it?
Well, we're going to have to be adults and decide for ourselves. Unfortunately there's a lot of cross-over between the two concepts so childishly simple opinions aren't going to be very helpful.
People have to decide for themselves - which is why I've been posting these incidents largely without comment.
Watch the clip for yourself:
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Seems a bit chilling to me - the way he's asking the audience to "look up" who supports the Labour Friends of Israel group. But of course, that's my opinion.
My opinion may differ from yours but, unlike Corbynite Labour MP Richard Burgon, I actually know what my opinion is. It's my opinion that he thought a good dose of "anti-Zionism" would play exceedingly well to that audience.
Judging by the applause, it apparently did.
But then, sometime after the event but before he was interviewed on British TV, Corbynite Labour MP Richard Burgon, changed his mind and decided that his previously expressed opinions were "not his opinions" and that he wouldn't have expressed them.
So some people may hear what he had to say and decide that he is possibly anti-semitic. Other people may hear what he had to say and decide that he might not be anti-semitic and make a distinction between anti-semitism and anti-zionism. Others may decide that there is a fine line between the anti-semitism and anti-zionism and that Richard Burgon was (knowingly or otherwise) playing it deliberately on the line and specifically for his audience.
What does Corbynite Labour MP, Richard Burgon really think? If we take him at his word he thinks that his previously expressed thoughts are clearly beyond the pale - he "regrets" them.
People can watch the clip themselves (link above) and people can read the BBC article themselves (link below):
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