Cetacea wrote:Unified Gibbons wrote:Labor Party racism? Jeez, color me shocked. (Sarcasm kiddies)
In all seriousness, we are not going to deport every last Israeli to the US just so the radical left(of whom I used to be affiliated with) can let terrorists like Hamas run wild with sharia extremism and antisemitism. Israelis fought long and hard for that nation they can flee antisemitism and return to the land promised to them. While I believe there should be a Palestine I don't think Israel should be removed. We already have a bad refugee crisis in the Middle East and the deportations of middle eastern Jews en masse isn't gonna help.
promised to them by who? the British or some exiled hermit 4000 years ago?
The United Nations.
Danceria wrote:Because essentially, that is how Israel was founded, a pro-ZIonist relocation of European Jews.
While I'm sure many European Jews relocated to the newly formed Israel around 1948, before that there was a cap on Jewish migration as the British wanted Arab support during WW2.
Radiatia wrote:I never thought I'd see the day when I'd feel the need to stick up for the British Labour Party - indeed it must be a cold day in hell - but she did not suggest Israel be relocated to the US, she shared a post on Facebook about it - obviously in jest - long before she became an MP.
She also criticised the atrocities committed by the State of Israel, which is not anti-Semitism.
There
are anti-Semites in the UK Labour Party, but I do not believe for a second that Naz Shah is one of them.
If this was 'New' Labour it may have been swept under the rug as just some meme that someone posted before they were an MP, but the Corbynite Labour party is under more pressure to find and remove vestiges of anti-Semitism with all the incidents of it in recent months, not least the anti-Semitism of Corbyn's own brother. As a Brit you may already know this, but just giving my two cents (or pennies rather)
Edit: Oh look- not 14 minutes after writing this post there's yet more alleged anti-semitism!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36160135As for if Naz Shah is anti-semitic; you could argue that it was more anti-Zionist than anti-semitic, but I think that the overall tone of it- deporting all Isrealis, comes from anti-semitic political schools of thought, and at the very least it's obviously not helping with the two-state solution.
Dinake wrote:Opposing Israel isn't necessarily anti-semitism. While the comment could have been more tactful, it wasn't a particularly anti-semitic one.
There's a difference between criticising Israel and removing all Israelis in place of the Palestinian Übermensch. The former is anti-Zionist, the latter is anti-semitic. If Naz Shah had then clarified saying something like "I only mean the Israeli state, the Jews should still have access to their holy sites" then it would be anti-Zionist.