The Jewish Chronicle conducts an Opinion Poll to test the effectiveness of its propaganda against Jeremy Corbyn!
Every week
I get an Editor’s Letter from the Jewish Chronicle and this week is no
exception. Usually there is only one story affecting the British Jewish community
and that is the ‘anti-Semitism’ of Jeremy Corbyn or the Labour Party.
This week
was no different except for the fact that there was nothing to report. There
were no long erased murals,
no exchanges with Jonathan Hoffman, Richard Millett orother Jewish fascists
who lacked a sense of British
irony, no ancient
book reviews, not even a Holocaust
survivor who detected a similarity between Israel today and Nazi Germany yesterday.
But Stephen Pollard, the Jewish
editor, is an enterprising fellow. That’s
why he was the founder of the Henry Jackson Society and a former editor of Richard Desmond’s Daily Express. Long forgotten is his
eviscerating front
page on Margaret Hodge who is now a friend in the fight against ‘anti-Semitism’.
Those with long memories will remember that Desmond was Britain’s biggest
pornographer with titles like Asian Babes.
But Desmond too was a Zionist as well as an EDL supporter.
Pollard as
readers of my blog will know is only interested in ‘anti-Semitism’ of the Left,
i.e. anti-Zionism. He has nothing to say
about anti-Semites on the Right as long as they are pro-Israel. People like White
Zionist Richard Spencer are of no concern to him. Indeed Pollard has a history
of defending pro-Israel anti-Semites such as Poland’s Michal Kaminski .
Letter from the JC Editor |
I digress
however. This week was a very lean news
week. No reports of Labour anti-Semitism
could be detected. Gnasher Jew was having a week
off. No Black people to pillory or bully.
So Pollard
decided to commission an opinion poll into Labour ‘Anti-Semitism’ to test how
effective the non-stop propaganda of the past 3 years has been and surprise
surprise they found
that ‘80% of the public are aware of
Labour’ anti-Semitism crisis’ and 59% don’t believe he will do anything
about it this non-existent crisis.
However if
this bogus and contrived poll had been objective then the second question,
after asking people had they heard of Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism crisis’ would have been to ask them what exactly this
crisis was about. What was it that the
press, not just the Jewish Chronicle had gone on about. What did this 'antisemitism' consist of? Unfortunately Pollard's bogus You Gov poll asked none of these searching questions.
Were Jews walking
around in fear of their lives? Was violence against Jews as Jews increasing? Or
was it that support for BDS and Palestinian rights were increasing?
I suspect
that the number of people who could have described this ‘anti-Semitism’ would
have been in single figures and most of those would have been mentioning Israel.
Indeed I suspect that 95% of British Jews would have been mystified and
muttered something about Israel.
So what the
poll was asking was how many people had heard of and been taken in by the
non-stop propaganda blitz about ‘Labour anti-Semitism’ the sole purpose of
which is to remove Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party
This is the kind of bigotry that Desmond excelled in |
In other
words it was a poll about how effective at propaganda are the British press, the Jewish Chronicle and
the BBC.
And this is
how the media operates. It campaigns around
a lie and then asks how many people have heard of this lie. George Orwell once wrote a book about this
kind of propaganda. He called it 1984 and the
process he was describing was doublethink,
the ability to hold contradictory opinions in one’s head at the same time or fragmented
consciousness in Marxist terms. Because
most people and communities who are the victims of racism also know that one of
the fiercest campaigners against racism is Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Pollard
is rather good at doublethink. What he’s not good at is straight forward honest
journalism. But then that is a problem
that is not confined to the Jewish Chronicle. It affects most of the media from
the Guardian’s Jonathan
Freedland to the Daily Mail and Telegraph.
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