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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
Jeremy is in trouble again after a video of him filmed in 2013 emerges
A Jewish Labour MP says she feels "unwelcome" in the party after a video emerged showing Jeremy Corbyn accusing British Zionists of having "no sense of English irony".
Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger described the Labour leader's comments in a 2013 speech as "inexcusable".
The clip was published on the Daily Mail website as Mr Corbyn makes efforts to tackle anti-Semitism in his party.
A spokesperson for Mr Corbyn denied the comments were offensive.
The spokesperson said: "He was referring to a group of pro-Israel activists misunderstanding -and then criticising - the Palestinian ambassador for a speech at a separate event about the occupation of the West Bank."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45292218
the video on the daily mail website http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...my-Corbyn.html
The picture below shows Corbyn at he meeting
On the far right is Daud Abdullah, who called for attacks on the Royal Navy and led a boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day. In the center is Stephen Sizer, who suggested that Israel was behind the 9/11 attack
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I don't think the issue is the lack of understanding of English irony... it's the English ignorance that's the real problem,faced with a powerful account of the historic implications emotively relayed by a Palestinian ambassador in relation to the conflict ... What are they reduced to for our viewing pleasure?.... Luciana Berger is upset :/
'Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about the row, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor and a close ally of Corbyn, said the leader’s words had been taken out of context.
“In certain contexts, certain phrases are appropriate. To take them out of context is unacceptable and I think is not helping the issue, it’s exacerbating the issue,” he said.
A Labour spokesperson added on Friday night: “
This was a speech about the need to better teach the history of Israel-Palestine and about the brutality of colonialism, occupation and dispossession.
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A section of the speech that was edited out of the footage posted on YouTube sets his comments in context. He had been speaking about Zionists and non-Zionist Jews and very clearly does not go on to use Zionists as any kind of shorthand for Jews.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ism-row-labour