The Israeli Palestinian conflcit is a problem made by both sides, and yet there are also those on both sides who would work together quite happily. There are Palestinians who call for the destruction of Isreal, and continual bombarments of Isreali settlements, and as a result, there are reprisals from Isreal, but it has to be said that Israel have no right to be pushing their settlements in to Palestinian lands, nor for evicting Palestinians from areas they want to live in.
The Labour party has a habit of supporting the underdog, in this case the Palestinians, but they seem to think it's okay to demonise Isreal, and by association anyone Jewish. Tom Watson was on TV a couple of days ago, and had to admit that when the anit Semetism in the Labour party conference reached a point of being discussed in the news, then things needed sorting out.
I'm not a labour fan but really can't see where this anti Jew story comes from
You need to read the news Mitch, the Bigotry and anti semetism at the Labour party conference has reached apoplectic proportions. There are have been Holocaust deniers speaking at the conference, call for the Jewish groups within the part to be ejected, and that's been the nice ones.
This was taken from a Guardian Article, so that says a lot.
Meanwhile,
Livingstone was on the radio cheerfully saying that it was perfectly possible to say offensive things about Jews without being anti-Jewish. He too has long argued that this whole business is bogus and confected, and that Labour does not have any kind of antisemitism problem.
And yet the evidence was there in Brighton if you were willing to see it. There were the
Labour party Marxists handing out a paper that repeated Livingstone’s toxic claim of ideological solidarity between the Nazis and those German Jews who sought a Jewish homeland.
There’s the testimony of John Cryer MP, who sits on Labour’s disputes panel. He says
some of the anti-Jewish tweets and Facebook posts he has seen from Labour members are “redolent of the 1930s”.
There were loud calls for the
expulsion of Jewish groups, one of which has been part of the Labour movement for a century. Hardly a surprise that some
Jewish activists turned away from the conference, describing an atmosphere that felt too hostile to endure.