It may seem unbelievable to think of it now, but we used to have a political party more openly racist and dangerous than Nigel Farage’s UKIP. The reason I say ‘used to’ is that in just 10 years (so enough for younger peeps to not remember it), the British National Party went from a neonazi political party that was standing candidates, to...nothing. Completely bankrupt and disbanded. And the woman who took them on and fought them back in Barking, street by street, vote by vote, when it looked like they’d win, who beat them down again ...just had cause to call Jeremy Corbyn a ‘*fucking racist antisemite’ in the Commons. The shame of it.
Margaret Hodge is the niece and grand-daughter of holocaust victims.
She’s fought back literal neonazis.
She’s received all manner of death threats and abuse threats, first from the neonazi right, and now from the antisemitic left.
When Labour under Corbyn essentially gaslighted the entire jewish community of Britain by responding to their candidates and leader’s crew constantly getting caught being antisemitic… by changing their definition of antisemitism from the one used by 30 countries across the globe and the UK courts just to keep getting away without disciplinaries, she could bear it no longer, and called him out.
Now, her lifelong record of standing up to racism of every kind is being smeared and tarnished.
Endless gentile Corbynite bros are lining up to tell her that Corbyn isn’t *personally* racist or antisemitic, how DARE she?! He just defends them, talks to them, gives them money, takes money from them, fanboys them, lays wreaths for antisemitic murderers, invites them to tea on the terrace, and writes them letters of recommendation. He only praised an organisation committed to killing jews, like, what, twice? He only defended an antisemitic mural like, a few times? How DARE you call him antisemitic? That’s just RUDE.
(i got this very same argument back in 2015, btw. When the stories were still coming out, the diary entries still resurfacing. Endless shocked people clutching their pearls and insisting that he wasn’t personally antisemitic, just unfortunately linked to loads and loads of them. Strangely, those people have gone quiet.)
I think I’ve actually given up on there ever being any kind of justice. I hope and pray that Margaret Hodge gets the security and support she needs for her bravery, because Corbynites are evil and vicious. If you’re still thinking of supporting his Labour or voting for him, or defending them… you are too. No, I don’t care what your excuse is or what the alternatives are like.
*some reports say she called him a racist antisemite, others a ‘fucking racist antisemite’. I personally hope she gave it to him with both barrels.
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