This thread is about the latest atrocity against the Jews.
Please, can people show some compassion for people affected by this tragedy and not use if for unrelated local (to the UK) political point scoring.
If the "point scoring" was about Farage, it's
not unrelated. Farage is part of an international "network" of antisemites. He mixes with them, he agrees with them, he repeats their antisemitic tropes, he is criticised for all those things by Jewish and antisemitism-watch organisations.
He wasn't a child. Up to the age of 18 when he left the school he was singling out Jews to tell them Hitler was right, to make the noise of gas hissing into a gas chamber, to sing "Gas 'em all", waiting by the school gates to pounce on them.
And now, when challenged, he denies it, he calls those who were there liars, or he tries to make out it was of no consequence. He attacks the media for publishing the allegations. He tries to equivalence revelling in the Nazi holocaust with the BBC showing the Black & White Minstrel Show, or a sitcom where the main character talked about "cооns" - something the
Daily Mail is happy to indulge him over (no surprise, given the antisemitic history of that august publication).
Antisemitism has grown exponentially in Australia over the last 2 years, much like it has in the UK. Also much like the UK Govt, the Australian Govt has largely ignored the problem, pandering instead to those inclined towards terrorrism.
Expect something similar here.
And yet some people here still support Farage. Some people here dismiss reports of what he has said, and done, and the facts of his criticism by Jewish organisations as "nothing other than sensationalism". Some people here still think "Good old Nige".
Some people here need to take a long, hard, look at themselves, and decide if cheering Farage on is a good way to combat antisemitism.
We live in an internationally politically connected world, and it is not "unrelated local (to the UK) political point scoring" to challenge the idea that Farage is a good old down-to-earth man of the people who would be a great PM. Allowing him to continue to have a political career legitimises antisemitism, and makes future atrocities like this one more likely, not less.
