Shaun Lawson
1 min readJul 25, 2018

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Sigh.

  1. Corbyn is not “best buddies” with Hamas and Hizbollah. That’s yet another slur.
  2. Hizbollah also stopped ISIS getting into and overwhelming Lebanon. I assume you’re enraged by this too?
  3. Yes, Corbyn invited certain individuals to Parliament. Like John Major met with the IRA, who’d murdered scores of British citizens. It’s called doing politics.
  4. ‘Totalitarian friends’? You mean like Saudi Arabia, who the British government does arms deals with, meaning we profit from them slaughtering Yemenis every day, and creating the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the planet? They’re so much our ‘friends’ that when they fund Islamist terrorism, we cover it up and bury the evidence at their behest.

It’s really pretty simple. Either practice what you preach, or stop this never-ending hypocrisy. Labour and Corbyn have acted against antisemitism by holding a full investigation, endorsing the IHRA definition, and beefing up its examples to make them applicable to a court of law. When accused of Islamophobia by Baroness Warsi and the Muslim Council of Britain, the Tories have done… nothing. And you know why? Because to the British media and all too many in Britain, Muslims simply don’t count.

As a Jew, I believe in equal treatment of everyone. As a Jew, I’m hugely impressed by Labour’s code of conduct. And as a Jew, I’m disgusted at the continued weaponisation of my people’s historic suffering by those who couldn’t care less about it — and are only interested in getting rid of a leader they consider a threat to vested interests and the same old failed status quo.

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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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