Der Triumph von der Stürmer (June 28, 2020)

Dennis Frank12

28 June 2020 at 10:32 am

The triumph of reason has happened within Labour in the UK.  Apparently…

I don’t want to rub salt into the wound, because that would sterilise it and help it heal, but the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey was one of those rare moments of shocking leadership. For those of us who think a broad-based egalitarian government would be a good idea, it has been a long time since a Labour leader has surprised us with such moral clarity.

It does not diminish Keir Starmer’s decisiveness that Long-Bailey brought it on herself. By refusing to delete her tweet praising Maxine Peake’s interview, with its antisemitic implication that Israel was to blame for the death of George Floyd, she made Starmer’s choice clear. Indeed, it makes the triumph of reason all the sweeter that the other side contributed to its own defeat with such a misjudgement.  https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-starmer-rebecca-long-bailey-tony-blair-corbyn-defeated-blairite-triumph-a9588896.html

So the long arm of Mossad thesis, eh?  I doubt she really implied that, but when UK politics persists in a morass of paranoia, conspiracy theories will inevitably whirl around in the vortex of competing perceptions.  And yes, moral clarity in a Labour leader is indeed shocking.  As a suggestion.  Not sure if the reality has been validated.

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• Ad12.1

  28 June 2020 at 12:55 pm

  An alternative action for Keir Starmer would be to keep following the foolish and fractious Jeremy Corbyn into a defeat so deep it will take years to get Labour out:

  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/18/key-points-from-review-of-2019-labour-election-defeat

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• Morrissey12.2

  28 June 2020 at 1:43 pm

  … with its antisemitic implication that Israel was to blame for the death of George Floyd…

  That was not the implication at all. What was at issue here was whether or not this murderous chokehold technique being used by U.S. police against peaceful and unarmed civilians was taught to them by Israeli police. You probably are aware that Israeli “policing” of the Occupied Territories is even more oppressive and lethal than what is being inflicted on the citizens of the United States by another vicious police culture.

  The wild allegation that "Israel was to blame" is entirely the fabrication of Jeremy Rentoul, the Indescribablyboring hack you have ill-advisedly chosen to quote. Rentoul is a shameless backer of the right wing Blairite faction which has managed to grab control of the Party again after its democratic deviation. It would have been hard for you to choose a more devious and dishonorable source; in 2015 he was forced to publicly apologise after another of his outrageous canards aimed at Corbyn.

  I wrote a post on Twitter last night that I regret, and for which I apologise. I suggested that Jeremy Corbyn might say that France had brought the Paris attacks on itself. I ought to know the danger of spending too much time on Twitter, and I make no excuses.

  I apologise without reservation to Mr Corbyn, to my colleagues and to readers. It was a stupid and offensive thing to say, especially at that time, and I am mortified by it.

  My sympathy goes to the families and friends of all those killed and injured in the attacks.

  https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/an-apology-from-john-rentoul-a6734441.html

  Shame on you for quoting such a callous and calculated liar, Dennis. 

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