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UK columnist: Labour’s Jew-hatred is cynical bid for Muslim votes

May 2, 2016 10:39 am By Robert Spencer

I’m sure this is true of many in the Labour Party, but it is also clear that among at least some Labour politicians, their Jew-hatred is sincere and deeply felt. In any case, this is the new Britain. This Jew-hatred in the Labour Party is a scandal today; tomorrow it will be taken for granted, and the next day will have spread to Britain’s other political parties. After all, they want votes, too.

Ken Livingstone

“Julie Burchill: Labour Party ‘Jew-hatred’ is cynical bid for Muslim vote,” by Julie Burchill, Mirror, May 1, 2016:

As someone whose autobiography was called I Knew I Was Right, I’ve never been backward in coming forward when it comes to world-class gloating.

But never on any subject have I wanted so much to be proved wrong as on the obscene level of anti-Semitism – or Jew-hatred, to give it an uglier, more accurate name – infecting the left-wing in this country.

A whopping 13 years ago, I wrote a farewell piece in the Guardian explaining that I was leaving my job on the newspaper – the established voice of the British Left – due to what I saw as its ugly, anti-Jew rhetoric and accompanying Islamophilia (the final straw was when they ran an opinion piece by Osama bin Laden).

In that year, 2003, attacks on Jews had risen by 75% and since 2000 there had been a 400% increase in attacks on synagogues.

And the EU’s racism watchdog had recently suppressed a report on the rise of anti-Semitism because it concluded that Muslims were behind many incidents.

“What sort of world do we live in, when racism is ‘allowed’ to be reported only if it comes from the white and the right?” I wondered at the time. And the statistics are far worse now.

The strange fruit which was allowed to blossom by a Labour Party, smug in its anti-racist credentials, has turned the party into a rotting edifice fatally riddled with the ancient disease of anti-Semitism.

The long, lonely road here started with the perfectly ­reasonable desire to be anti-racist and ended up poisoned by what I call Paint-Chart Politics.

PCP is the equally illogical inversion of conventional racism – in this case, the furthest-from-white is always right.

And, hence, the Labour Party has found itself supporting a sexist, homophobic, nihilist death cult – Islamism – just because the majority of those who practice it are dark skinned and the majority of Jews white.…

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  1. jayell says

    May 2, 2016 at 10:47 am

    Someone in the media hitting the nail on the halal head at last!!! Now, everybody, watch how this is taken up – or not.

    • jihad3tracker says

      May 2, 2016 at 11:25 am

      Hello jayell —

      Permit me to put this link at the queue’s beginning. The item it leads to is relevant to Robert’s post above, and author Kevin Williamson broadens his argument to cover the Left in America, and virtually anywhere in the world: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434730/leftist-anti-semitism

      “WHY THE LEFT HATES JEWS” — IN NATIONAL REVIEW. I urge every Jihadwatcher to devote 10 undistracted minutes to it, please. As a companion piece, another of the superb writers National Review publishes — Dennis Prager — recently put up “Why the Left Loathes Western Civilization”.

      • IQ al Rassooli says

        May 2, 2016 at 12:04 pm

        Thank you jihad3tracker for the link to the article

        Excellent piece

        The Left had been and continue to be the flip side of the Nazi coin. After all Nazi stands for
        National Socialist German Workers Party!

        Muslims hate Jews (and 80% of none Muslim humanity) so did the Nazis especially since Muhammad’s Quran was the mentor of Hitler’s Mein Kampf!

        Iq al Rasasooli
        Kafir & Proud!

      • Lanya LaPunta says

        May 3, 2016 at 8:37 am

        Judas Prudas …. Dennis Prager?

        He claims to be on the right side (political aisle). But, I have serious reservations, believing that. I have attempted to read some his pieces and listen to his radio show …

        However, the guy is boring, Boring, BORING. Moreover, I have yet to listen to anyone who is anywhere close to as pompous as he.

        Here I was going along … and finding this article stimulating and educational … and they you had to blow my day by referencing that boring and pompous Prager.

        • IQ al Rassooli says

          May 3, 2016 at 2:16 pm

          Lanya

          In FACT Prager is one of the most articulate, intelligent and knowledgeable on these subjects than the entirety of mostly clueless and criminally negligent elites in Politics Academia Clergy & Media

          He is one literally a handful of intellectuals willing to stand up against the Brown Shirts of the left

          What is boring are the endless Lies, Distortions, Deceptions, Duplicity and Hypocrisy of so called scholars, media personalities, clergy and politicians

          It is a sad state of affairs when people who tell the FACTS are denigrated while those who lie blatantly are idolized

          IQ al Rassooli
          Kafir & Proud!

  2. cs says

    May 2, 2016 at 10:48 am

    You want to read this one as well, from Douglas Murray:
    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/labours-anti-semitism-problem-stems-from-its-grassroots/

  3. Larry says

    May 2, 2016 at 10:54 am

    There are some really charming anti-semitic genocidists posting in the Mirror’s comments section under that article.

    They are proving she is spot on the money.

  4. Elliott says

    May 2, 2016 at 11:08 am

    What is an “Islamist”?
    I know what a “Muslim” is, I know what “Islam” is – but an “Islamist”?
    Unfortunately, it is a “PC” term, used by people (often “right-wingers”) who are afraid of calling something what it ACTUALLY is.
    Let’s call a “Muslim” a “Muslim”, let’s call his activities what they are: slander / rape / murder. If these acts are carried out by a Muslim acting AS A Muslim, you won’t need the made-up word “Islamist”.
    The cause will be ISLAM, nothing else, not some meaningless variation or made-up word – but pure, unadulterated ISLAM.

    • Lanya LaPunta says

      May 3, 2016 at 8:41 am

      Rather than call them muslim, call them by their proper name (well, at least the one that can be used in mixed company) …mohammedans.

      They (mohammedans) don’t like that term. All the better reason for using it.

      That term served the West for centuries. Why, just because some mohammedan prefers being called a muslim … forget about it … they’re mohammedans.

  5. Angemon says

    May 2, 2016 at 11:26 am

    The long, lonely road here started with the perfectly ­reasonable desire to be anti-racist and ended up poisoned by what I call Paint-Chart Politics.

    That’s over-simplifying things. What’s the Labour Party’s stance on “transgenderism”, “ableism”, “white privilege”, etc?

  6. ECAW says

    May 2, 2016 at 11:28 am

    She was doing so well till she mentioned Islamism.

    Come on Julie, you can do it…it begins with “I” and ends with “M” but only has 5 letters.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 2, 2016 at 11:37 am

      Are you insane?
      Why nitpick over that when a breeze of fresh air is blowing the foul stench of anti-Semitism back into the faces of Jew hating Labour politicians.

      • ECAW says

        May 2, 2016 at 11:41 am

        No I’m not insane, but thanks for asking.

      • Mirren10 says

        May 2, 2016 at 5:18 pm

        ”Are you insane?
        Why nitpick over that … ”

        Because we will never get anywhere until we *refuse* to accept this sort of crap, and call the beast out for what it is. **islam*

        It isn’t ‘insanity’ to refuse to accept nonsensical euphemisms. It’s not ‘islamism’. It’s **islam**.

  7. OP says

    May 2, 2016 at 11:30 am

    I wonder if this time yet again it will work and the focus will be on genocide against Jews which will then take much longer for them to turn on Christians.Buy them some time I mean. They simply don’t understand the danger. By Christians I include those who are non-practicing but are of Christian ancestry because I always get the leftist response that they are not Christians. In the eyes of Moslems they are indeed Christians.

    • mortimer says

      May 2, 2016 at 12:41 pm

      To OP: Agree with your concern about the genocide of Christians, however, that doesn’t change the fact that Muslims target synagogues wherever they see them…even in India.

  8. mortimer says

    May 2, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    Jew hatred is the most common hatred among Muslims. To find out how ‘moderate’ a Muslim is, just mention Israel and American support of it.

    If a Muslim is in agreement with the right of Jewish people to have a homeland, then and only then, will I call him a ‘moderate’.

  9. Rob says

    May 2, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    It’s inevitable that democracy will be a race to the bottom.
    That’s where the Courts/Police and political party leaderships step in.
    Unfortunately all have been found wanting.
    Remember Labour started the Islamisation of Britain by scouring the slums of Pakistan for migrants. This was perfected under Blair.
    The monster of Islamic parliamentary electorates that must now be ‘fed’ with Jew-hating rhetoric was inevitable.
    The Police will arrest someone for quoting Churchill but look the other way when Muslims carry placards stating: ‘Behead all who insult Islam’.
    .

  10. Georg says

    May 2, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Right on the mark.

  11. Paula says

    May 2, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    Julie Burchill ‘has her little ways’ but give her her due credit, she’s been speaking out about Islam for years. The one positive thing about this recent row is that it gives a glimmer of hope that these issues might be covered more visibly. Here’s another insightful mainstream article which deftly takes apart Sadiq Khan’s slimey words http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/02/sadiq-khan-does-the-sums-over-muslim-votes/

  12. Paula says

    May 2, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    Here’s another one from Julie, taking apart blow by blow the nonsense that Muslims are the new Jews – Muslims are not the new Jews, Jews are the new Jews
    http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/153626/reasons-why-muslims-are-not-new-jews

  13. Panmelia says

    May 2, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    Mickey Oberman, the real British people have not turned against Jews and many of us – probably the majority – would love to see the back of every rug-kissing muzrat in the country.

    Muzrat Naz Shah MP (yes, a Member of Parliament!) started the whole current fuss when she posted a graphic of the USA with Israel transplanted to the mid-west with the caption “Problem Solved”. This post appeared a couple of years before she was elected an MP by muzrat-infested Bradford. When the post resurfaced and the furore started, Nazi had to apologise in Parliament, displaying her grasp of taqqiyah with aplomb.

    The government, the media, and the police refuse to publish the statistics of anti-semitic attacks showing who the offenders and aggressors are by name and religion, but we all know that the vast majority of them are mudslimes. It’s like the mudslime child rapist gangs all over again – deny, deny, deny, conceal, conceal, conceal.

    Since the 2013 attacks in Paris, one of which was on a Jewish grocery store with four killed and a number injured, 8000 Jewish people have left France and come to the UK where they ‘feel safer’.
    I can only conclude that it must have been pretty bloody awful for them in France if they feel safer here.

    Please don’t confuse the real British people (those whose forebears have lived for thousands of years in this country) with those who simply have a British passport because our thick incompetent governments have allowed them to migrate here. But I agree with you, there has been a slow invasion of people not fit to live here: the enemy within.

    • jihad3tracker says

      May 2, 2016 at 6:19 pm

      Hello Panmelia — I am confident in replying to you that Americans DO NOT CONFUSE THE REAL BRITISH PEOPLE with migrants.

      As a senior citizen (age 67) whose aunt held an important position in the FDR White House all during World War II, I was a generation too young to have directly heard PM Churchill’s warning on the “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” but your country’s resistance to defeat is certainly among the zenith of triumph.

      My piggyback reply to commenter “jayell” at 11:25 AM today gives a link to Kevin Willamson’s article on anti-Semitism, including the recent scourge in Britain. It might have info and context you do not yet know — take a look.

      • Panmelia says

        May 3, 2016 at 8:25 am

        OK, thanks, jihad3tracker.

  14. citycat says

    May 2, 2016 at 7:04 pm

    Pandering to Islamic hatred of Jews allows Islaam to gain ground.
    Agreeing for any reason with Muslims gives Islaam permission to gain presence. See what has happened before, no more is the land infidel and it becomes horrible, mutilating, and disgustingly misogynistic Islaam.
    Another example is
    Leicester football club infidel supporters.
    Today, the away teams’ infidel supporters were slagging down the Muslim supporters of Leicester.
    The Leicester infidel supporters said to the infidel supporters of the away team to stop slagging the Leicester Muslims because-
    “These are our Asians”.
    So the Leicester Asians are given more presence to spread Islaam
    Will the infidel Leicester supporters say the same when forced conversion activity begins. Will these politicians say the same.
    Insanity reigns.

  15. R Cole says

    May 2, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    I was thinking that myself today!!

    What has infected the UK Labour party today – may well spread to the Conservative’s tomorrow.

    The seeds are most definitely there – under David Cameron – people are being arrested for verbal slights against Islam. At the same time there have been Muslims caught on camera saying far more offensive things – and of course, these are not dealt with, with the same urgency.

    There is definitely something creepy about that whole thing!

    Like Labour’s wholesale protection of Islam and Muslims – the Cameron government may feel they may benefit from it [in an underhanded fashion.]

    ::

    Thought Police 4 the Greater Cohesion!

    Only one problem – the Islamic vote in Europe so far doesn’t win elections. Campaigning on an anti-racism/pro-Islamic platform – is an utterly failed strategy.

    But what it does present – is a method of control. That is where David Cameron sees it’s usefulness.

    For example, Cameron wants to bring 20,000 refugees to the UK. If you look at what Obama is doing, Merkel – they all seem to be doing the same thing – that is to seed the Muslim migrants all around the country. Cameron plans to settle 1000 Syrian migrants in a tiny remote island off Scotland – that has a population of approx. 6000. But when one of its residents – complains on facebook – he gets a visit from the police.

    ::

    Pro-Palestine

    In another article – up in Bradford – where those who committed the 7/7 London bombings came from –
    local politicians – from both Labour and the Liberal Democrats – campaigning to defeat the infamous George Galloway [convert to Islam] of the Respect Party – were running on a pro-Palestinian platform.

    ::

    Vote 4 Sharia

    And that is the scary thing – at the moment we are talking about Leftist antisemitism – that is still a brush fire – that we can beat out with our brooms – but soon we could be talking about Islamic law. And what politicians will do for the marginal vote in this case?

    ::

    Please enlighten us

    Let’s not forget under Cameron – there is a section – a building on Whitehall that is governed by sharia law – in some sort of Islamic finance bond deal.

    And further the Saudis have stated they wish to help those in the UK – understand beheadings and other Islamic capital punishments. Criticism of such things is clearly ‘Islamophobic!!’

    • jihad3tracker says

      May 2, 2016 at 9:03 pm

      Thank you, R Cole, for this post by another Brit in the Jihad Watch arsenal.

      Please continue these reality-checks, because Americans cannot trust MSM (mainstream media) for truth about what motivates UK elected officials.

      Also EU cowards like Angela Merkel, whose naïve for “refugees” tanked from broad early support to rejection as the migrants rioted and raped .

  16. Judi says

    May 3, 2016 at 2:46 am

    I was in London on Sunday just in time to witness a march by the left-wing communist/Corbyn members. Amongst the motley crew, most were waving red flags emblazoned with the hammer and sickle, but I saw a few palestinian ones there too. Many trade unions were there (most have voted for BDS), also many muzzrats. The “highlight” of the march ended with Corbyn giving one of his “rousing speeches”. I wasn’t privy to this but apparently he was expressing his indignation at being called anti-Semitic.
    London chooses a new Mayor on Thursday. Owing to the large influx of muzzrats, Sadiq Khan is the favourite to win. Gd help us all.

  17. Malcolm Jackson says

    May 3, 2016 at 4:12 am

    Labour is the party of Islam. This is the video Labour didn’t want us to see. Just on one minute in this Muslim Labour minister spouts his and Labour’s true intentions to turn us into a Muslim state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJY_Sgx5Mt4

    • Wiser Monkeys says

      May 3, 2016 at 9:32 am

      Please see our post further below about the SNP now being the party of Islam in Scotland.

  18. Marty says

    May 3, 2016 at 5:43 am

    In the UK we have a very corrupt voting system
    No ID required, persons occupying burkas & wearing masks able to vote several times,
    plus Blair’s corrupt postal voting.
    There are about 250,00 Jews in the UK, overwhelmingly honest by our standards.
    There are at least 3,000,000 mohammedans, legally & probably another million illegally.
    By our standards most muslims are undesirable or dishonest, partly because of
    their religious beliefs re us kaffurs & partly because of the culture they have imported
    & been encouraged to retain.
    A politician cannot appeal to muslims without being an overt Jew Hater.
    Jews offer about 150,000 votes, muslims about 5,000,000.
    Res ipsa loquiter !

  19. David says

    May 3, 2016 at 6:48 am

    Are the muslim immigrants also CITIZENS? Or does Britain allow the illegals to vote? There has been a big push here in the United States to try to STOP the illegals from voting until they actually become citizens.
    But it is still a huge problem. Many local PC politicians simply look the other way, or refuse to enforce the LAW!
    Could this be what’s happening here too?

  20. Wiser Monkeys says

    May 3, 2016 at 9:25 am

    In Scotland, the SNP government’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and foreign minister, Humza Yousaf, are campaigning to get re-elected with the help of a known Islamist, Osama Saeed, in their campaign teams.

    See images at:
    http://wisermonkeys.uk/TWITTER/osama-saeed-sturgeon-campaigner.jpg
    http://wisermonkeys.uk/TWITTER/osama-saeed-yousaf-campaigner.jpg
    and further details at:
    http://wisermonkeys.uk/snp.html#sif

    Sharia is also being practised in Scotland, with the approval of the SNP Scottish government:
    http://wisermonkeys.uk/TWITTER/why-tolerate-sharia-in-scotland.jpg

    The SNP has grabbed many of the votes which used to go to Labour, including those from the ‘Asian’ (ie. mostly Pakistani Muslim) community. Here’s what Humza Yousaf said:
    “When my dad came to live in Scotland the Asian community here was about 99 per cent Labour supporting and stayed that way for years. It’s far from that now. I would say that in my area about eight in every ten Asians voted SNP …”

    Strange days in Alba.

  21. melancholy observer says

    May 3, 2016 at 10:45 am

    speaking from australia, the same process although less spectacular is occurring within the once great Australian Labor Party. It is working at a slower pace than in Britain and underpinned with much less blatant arrogance, but make no mistake the process is occurring.There seem two underpinning facets to this awful development, first the seeming unending arrival of Islamic immigrants into Labor constituencies, and next the obscene influence of pro-islamic leftist university types on party policies. It is a stealthy and incremental Jihad with a number of old party activists taking different sides.Although Australia is far from the lost cause of Sweden et al. we are moving fast in their direction

  22. Kepha says

    May 3, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    The Palestinian cause is sacrosanct to the Left because it was a political client of the USSR during the Cold War.

  23. michael savell says

    May 4, 2016 at 12:40 pm

    I don’t quite follow you.Naz Shah was definitely anti-semitic and was suspended by
    the party.Ken Livingstone quoted historic references,not his own opinion and was accused of being anti-semitic and banned from the Labour party.Being anti-semitic
    can get you in really hot water in the UK so where is the hate coming from.?
    Of course you read it on the net,particularly in the USA probably because so many jewish people
    at the top in politics have dual nationality.A lot gets blamed on to them but—do they care,I don’t think so,not unduly anyway.

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