John Chuckman
(ADDITIONAL) COMMENT POSTED TO A COLUMN BY JONATHAN COOK IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
“Corbyn’s Labour is Being Made to Fail – by Design”
The situation at The Guardian becomes worse each passing day. They must have a special “get Corbyn” squad at work full-time.
Today, there’s a big story about a video of Corbyn from about five years. His brief quote from the video is labelled by opponents (and of course dutifully quoted by Guardian) as “inexcusable” and “clearly antisemitic.”
But there is nothing at all anti-Semitic in saying someone “lacks a sense of English irony,” whether that person is Jewish or not. To call Corbyn’s harmless words “inexcusable” is so over-the-top, it is laughable, bitterly laughable.
Corbyn was referring to some particular Zionists at a meeting in 2013, part of a group that included both Jews and non-Jews.
So, today’s name-calling accusers, on top of everything else, have taken Corbyn’s harmless words out of context.
Much as they did with a 2014 photo produced some days ago and presented falsely as Corbyn laying a wreath at the grave of some Munich Olympics terrorists in Tunisia.
The vicious Netanyahu even chimed in from Israel on that one. Talk about Putin interfering in elections. Moreover, Netanyahu didn’t even know what he was talking about.
The wreath had absolutely nothing to do with Olympic terrorists. It was at the graves of some innocent people killed by Israeli bombing in Tunisia in 1985.
The cemetery is said also to contain the graves of some “accused” of having been involved in the Munich attack, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the event in which Corbyn was involved.
I truly think the whole ugly campaign has moved past the Senator Joseph McCarthy tone it had for so long and into a kind of “the Stasi accuses” mode.
