You can no more support Palestinians & Zionism than you could support Black Africans
& Apartheid or the Jews & the Nazis! @drrosena finds this ‘disgusting’
I guess my encounter with Dr Rosena Allin Khan MP must have been her
lucky break. She has garnered more
publicity from meeting me than anything else she has done during her campaign
for leadership.
Dr who you may ask? She is
running to become Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. As Lyndon Johnson, US
President once observed, Vice President isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit.
At the Brighton Kemptown nomination meeting 2 weeks ago she was the only
candidate to turn up. She needed the
nomination desperately because no union and virtually no CLPs had nominated her.
Knowing fully well that Brighton Kemptown was a left-wing CLP she was
determined to put on a left face. What she didn't mention was that the
organisers of her campaign are Tom Watson and former Labour General Secretary
'crooked' Iain McNicoll.
Still not sure what twitter love is? is it as real as fake antisemitism? either way she stuttered and mumbled |
I was giving out leaflets for Rebecca Long-Bailey (v. reluctantly) and
Richard Burgon. She saw my Palestinian badge and came over and congratulated me
on wearing it. Clearly she was eager to please.
Rosena did have some support on Twitter even if it wasn't of the highest intellectual calibre |
Dr Rosena introduced herself to me and no doubt expected I would be
bowled over and flattered. I wasn’t. I
knew who she was and wasn’t impressed after I’d already heard about her
opposition to ‘anti-Semitism’ i.e. anti-racism in Labour. I responded that if
she supported the Palestinians why then did she sign up to the Board of
Deputies 10 Commandments.
She stuttered and mumbled and failed to give any coherent reply, as a
bundle of witnesses will confirm. She quickly moved on! I thought that it might be a good idea to give
some publicity to this hypocrite who runs with the foxes and hunts with the
hounds. So I sent out a tweet on Twitter, prompting a response from Rosena.
Unfortunately apart from the usual trolls, Dr Rosena didn't garner much sympathy on Twitter hence why she ran for comfort to the Zionist press |
Now she was full of righteous thunder. People shouldn't associate with expelled
members (as the Board has instructed). Perhaps they/she thinks they will catch
something contagious (like fresh ideas?). Quarantining ideas is a particularly
fascist concept that it should not be necessary for me to elaborate. Dr Rosena
seemed oblivious to the fact that she had approached me!
I couldn't possibly comment! |
Dr Rosena is not unique. In fact
she is extremely commonplace. Hypocrites
who pretend to support you and suggest they are on the left are two a penny in
the Labour Party. Dr R did not of course berate me that night because she
needed the nomination (which foolishly the CLP gave her out of a mixture of
kindness and pity).
Both the Jewish News and the Jewish Chronicle have seen to publicise our
encounter. I can only assume that in the wake of their massive loss in the
libel courts that the Jewish Chronicle is eager for any news that is cheap at
the price.
But at least the Jewish News's Jack Mendel, with whom I have clashed
before, had the decency to send me an email querying the facts, print much of
my response and check that what I had said was on the record.
It is a long time since the Jewish Chronicle has followed what is good
journalistic practice and actually contacted the person they are writing about.
I remember when the Jewish Chronicle was a decent paper that Bernard Joseph or Martin
Brighton or whoever would ring me up before going to print. Propaganda
newssheets don’t need to check their facts.
After all, if the JC’s Political Correspondent, 'Liar' Lee Harpin were
to contact his targets he wouldn't be able to lie so frequently. But then again
the Jewish Chronicle would not have to pay out so many libel damages either!
As for Dr Rosena? I harbour no
grudge against her. She needs all the
publicity she gets. That she is a
lightweight politically is obvious. Scoring points off her is like taking candy
from a kid. And as anyone with a sense
of decency will tell you, that is unsporting.
Tony Greenstein
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