Shaun Lawson
1 min readDec 9, 2019

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Oh yes — my ‘harassment of Luciana Berger’ — otherwise known as my questioning of a public representative. The very same Luciana Berger who went off and joined the very party whose policies killed Stephen Smith, like they killed so many others. The very same Luciana Berger who decided to help the Tories by fighting a Tory/Labour marginal, where the Lib Dems finished more than 20,000 votes behind in 2017.

There’s something that’s abundantly clear to me in all this, Marlon. You don’t care about poor Jews, disabled Jews, unwell Jews or vulnerable Jews. And you don’t care one iota about what Britain will face if Johnson wins on Thursday. The same Johnson who, as editor of The Spectator, profited from antisemitism and Islamophobia on a continual basis; the same Johnson who in his novel, 72 Virgins, wrote about Arabs having ‘hook noses’ and whose Jewish character, Sammy Katz, was depicted as a shady, money-grabbing businessman, with snake-like eyes, who exploits immigrants and women for his own gain and is tight with money.

If Johnson does indeed win, many British Jews will, very plainly, celebrate. The obliviousness of people like you to the reality of what the Tories do to our fellow Jews on a daily basis disgusts me. But as I said above, entirely contrary to what it says in the Torah, you just don’t care.

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Shaun Lawson
Shaun Lawson

Written by Shaun Lawson

Writer, teacher, editor. Based in Uruguay, but a regular commentator on UK politics and current affairs.

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