Antisemitism on the Left? Perish the thought!

• I have never seen antisemitism on the Left.
• I have never seen antisemitism in the Labour Party.
• Where’s the evidence?
• Suggesting that there is antisemitism in Labour is just a smear.
• It is a smear, and it is organised by the Tories.
• It is a smear, and it is organised and funded by Israel, the Zionists, and / or Mossad.
• The 68 rabbis who wrote to protest about antisemitism are all Tories / Israeli agents / Trump fanatics.
• Corbyn has been fighting racism all this life. He is not antisemitic. It is a slander to suggest he is antisemitic.
• It is slander funded by Mossad.
• Antisemitism in Labour is fake news; it is an attempt to silence criticism of Israel, which is a genocidal apartheid state that is systematically murdering the Palestinians and eating their babies.
• I have never seen antisemitism in the Labour Party; I’ve only seen criticism of the barbaric racist Zio-Nazi Entity Israel, and that’s not antisemitic.
• Judaism is a religion. Zionism is a political agenda that wants to take over the planet. They are not the same.
• Zionist Jews aren’t ‘real’ Jews. They are European Caucasians who are just pretending to be Jewish.
• The Zionists aren’t real Jews and they have no connection to Israel or Judea.
• The Jews have no connection to Israel or Judea. They are planting fake archaeological artefacts.
• All racism is on the rise. It’s much worse for Muslims.
• The Tories have a much bigger problem with Islamophobia. The Tories are the racists.
• Zio-paths are crying wolf, pretending that there is antisemitism when there is not. This is going to be harmful to the Jews when REAL antisemitism occurs.
• What a shame it is that the Jews failed to learn the lesson of the Holocaust.
• Arabs are Semites too, therefore they cannot be antisemitic.
• I’m Jewish, so I can’t be antisemitic.
• As a Jew, I deplore Israel’s murderously brutal repressive imperialist baby-eating racist Apartheid. And I’m Jewish, so that’s not antisemitic.
• My grandfather / grandmother / great aunt Maud fought the fascists at Cable Street, therefore I cannot possibly be antisemitic.
• Some of my best friends are Jews.
• Jews don’t understand English irony, even though some of them have lived here for a very long time.

Most of these statements were posted online. Some I have compiled by running a number of similar comments together. Some of these comments were  posted by my former colleagues on their own or other people’s facebook timelines, and other comments were posted in left-wing facebook groups or on twitter. Some comments are taken from recordings that were published in the online papers.

Some of these comments were said to my face.