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Behind the Aegis

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Sat Jul 15, 2017, 04:39 AM Jul 2017

(Jewish Group) The Far Lefts Toxic Mix Of Anti-Semitism And Misogyny Must Be Stopped

THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!!!

The British elections should be a lesson for the Democratic Party,” Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in The New York Times less than a week after race ended. Never mind that the left-wing Labour Party actually lost to the Conservative Party, much like Hillary Clinton defeated Sanders himself in the Democratic primaries. The American left, he argued, has much to learn from Labour’s “very progressive manifesto that generated much enthusiasm among young people and workers.”

A month has now passed since that election, and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and the far-left, including the grassroots campaigning organization Momentum, are in the ascendancy. There are signs that their primary task is now quashing dissent and securing the revolution inside the Party. Get on board with Corbyn or get out is the long and the short of it. Moderate Members of Parliament may be targeted by activists for “de-selection” — withdrawing the party endorsement — and replaced by ideological conformists.

One of those preyed upon in recent days has been Luciana Berger. The local party in her constituency, Liverpool Wavertree, has been taken over by Corbyn supporters who immediately demanded an apology for her prior insubordination, local press reported. Roy Bentham — previously a regular contributor to Socialist Fight, a website run by the anti-Zionist conspiracy theorist Gerry Downing — said, “The next time she wants to vote for bombing in Syria or to pass a no confidence motion in the leader of the party, she will have to be answerable to us.”

This ominous and obvious intimidation fits a pattern on the far-left, an unhealthy obsession not only with women — BBC journalist Laura Kuenssberg, Labour MP Yvette Cooper, and so on — but more specifically Jewish women. Most infamously, at the launch of a botched report into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in June 2016, Ruth Smeeth stated that she was “verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional anti-Semitic slurs to attack me for being part of a ‘media conspiracy.’”

After that incident, Smeeth was called a “yid,” a “CIA/MI5/Mossad informant,” and a “traitor.” She was not alone. Margaret Hodge received anti-Semitic emails after she instigated a vote of no confidence against Corbyn in July 2016. In Liverpool Riverside, the far-left created what a local councilor called an “intimidating and hostile” atmosphere for Jews, which included going after their MP, Louise Ellman, who is also vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.

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(Jewish Group) The Far Lefts Toxic Mix Of Anti-Semitism And Misogyny Must Be Stopped (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jul 2017 OP
K&R for exposure rpannier Jul 2017 #1
Great read BTA JustAnotherGen Jul 2017 #2
If this were any other group being targeted, these "activists" would be screaming for condemnation. grossproffit Jul 2017 #3
Corbyn laid a wreath at the grave of Palestinian terrorist involved in the Munich Olympics massacre. grossproffit Jul 2017 #4
Kick for exposure. EllieBC Jul 2017 #5

grossproffit

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3. If this were any other group being targeted, these "activists" would be screaming for condemnation.
Sat Jul 15, 2017, 06:51 AM
Jul 2017

Instead, these same "activists" are the ones targeting Jews.




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