04-08-2018, 09:31 AM
(04-08-2018, 08:17 AM)Steve Wrote: Well, I was up very early this morning, on my way to do a boot sale with the radio on listening to Tom Swarbrick on LBC. He was discussing Jeremy Corbyn and the current antisemitism row, which is going on and on, as you know.
I kid you not, but the presenter must have mentioned the term “anti-semitism”, a much misused expression, maybe 100, or probably about 200 times in the Space of an hour!
He had Chris Williamson MP on at one point but didn’t give him a chance to properly put forward labour’s side on this issue, and then invited callers to phone in. Well, no callers took him up on this and no one bothered to phone the station.
Is it me, or is it my imagination that this issue of anti-semitism has got out of hand and is purely being used as a weapon to silence anyone who wishes to criticise the Israeli government or US foreign policy?
Spot on Steve. They are making it so that people are scared to mention the words Jewish or Israel or even scared to mention Palestine. This, coupled with what is going on in Gaza at the moment, is by design, alas people are scared to talk about it or give their views in case they are branded anti Semitic. They are very clever at times.
But yes, it is now so over the top it is laughable