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KAREN GLASER – Why I kicked my boyfriend out at 2am over anti-Semitism in the Labour party

Mike Norman November 2, 2018 Mike Norman Economics

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I believe this New Statesman article is an attempt to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's movement and to stop him from gaining power. Karen Glaser is an alias Jewish name.Karen Glaser's boyfriend made the mistake of saying that all Jews are rich, but does that mean he is antisemitic? He just sounds immature.Karen Glaser believes there is a problem of antisemitism in the Labour party and that Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic. So, having a problem with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians makes a person antisemitic. Karen Glaser probably genuinely believes that what she is saying is correct, but why did the New Statesman print this article? It seems obvious to me that this has been published to undermine Corbyn and the left which has always had sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians. The UK is

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I believe this New Statesman article is an attempt to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's movement and to stop him from gaining power. Karen Glaser is an alias Jewish name.

Karen Glaser's boyfriend made the mistake of saying that all Jews are rich, but does that mean he is antisemitic? He just sounds immature.

Karen Glaser believes there is a problem of antisemitism in the Labour party and that Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic. So, having a problem with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians makes a person antisemitic. Karen Glaser probably genuinely believes that what she is saying is correct, but why did the New Statesman print this article? It seems obvious to me that this has been published to undermine Corbyn and the left which has always had sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians. The UK is free country and we are allowed to hold such political views.

This is article is full of nonsense like, 'the Jews did 9/11', but I don't think many left wingers say this.  Although some of us on the left are agnostic about 9/11 and want a better explanation than the official narrative.

This article is set up to be a straw doll and is awful journalism. Karen Glaser's  boyfriend sounds very immature, just like lots of young people. We don't get told how old Karen Glaser and her boyfriend are, they could be teens - still children!

I criticise Britain all the time but does that make me a racist against British people? No, it's the state I am criticising . When I say the U.S bombed South East Asia back to the stone ages am I criticising the American people? No, I'm criticising the American ruling elite, the establishment?

He looked slowly around the living room of my freshly painted flat and then gestured in exaggerated fashion to the books and ceramics crammed on shelves, to the canvases on the walls and my kids’ instruments strewn on the floor. “Well, your life looks OK to me,” he said.
“Lots of Jews had nice apartments in 1930s Berlin,” I retorted. “The pessimists among them went to Hollywood. Need I spell out what happened to the optimists.”
It was an easy, if apposite, riposte. But I was done with patient argument and trying to appear less emotional than I felt: done with trying, I am almost ashamed to say, not to appear the hyperbolic Jew of anti-Semitic ridicule. It was 2am and I had been arguing about Corbyn and the problem of left-wing anti-Semitism for almost three hours. I was nearing breaking point.
My adversary was Sean*, the guy I’d been seeing since January – by now, it was September – and who I really liked. So when he’d asked earlier in the evening if we should meet next Saturday and I said no, that I had a dinner date with a cousin who  was over from Israel, and Sean replied, laughing, “Ooh, do you think she’ll be scared to set foot on our Jewish unfriendly soil?”,  I asked him calmly what he meant. And when he replied, still chuckling, that Labour’s anti-Semitism had been massively overstated, that it was essentially a tawdry attempt to smear Corbyn, I took a deep breath and answered him properly.
 I explained to my lover that this is no laughing matter, that there is consensus across Anglo-Jewry that there is a serious problem of anti-Semitism in Labour, and this means he should take it seriously too.
I said that if Tory politicians had done half the things to any other ethnic group that Corbyn has done to the Jews, leftists would be baying for blood.
And when he asked, as Corbynistas always do, what exactly Jeremy has done, I went through the grim list: his claim that Hamas and Hezbollah are dedicated to peace and justice, even though Hamas’s charter calls for the destruction of the Jews; his defence of the blood libeller Raed Salah and the conspiracist Rev Stephen Sizer, who blamed Israel for 9/11; his membership of Facebook groups where deeply anti-Semitic posts are the norm; and his siding with those behind the now infamous Nazi-style mural showing hook-nosed anti-Semitic caricatures, getting rich on the backs of the world’s poor.
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