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Blaming the Zionists

A letter to the Times this morning, from a (considerable) number of lords and baronesses:

Sir, In their letter to The Times (Aug 7) Sir Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Sayed Razawi, Chief Imam of the Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society, and other faith leaders point out that an appropriate response to the outbreak of hatred, violence and vandalism is to work on building “a cohesive and harmonious society for all”. The Islamic Human Rights Commission has adopted a different approach. Its letter dated August 6 to the home secretary and police chiefs asserts (with, of course, no factual foundation) that “far-right elements” have been “enabled by their Zionist financiers abroad”. Such primitive, dangerous and disgraceful antisemitism needs to be called out and condemned.

Blaming the Zionists, otherwise known as the Jews, is (unsurprisingly) quite the thing now:

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  1. Graham Avatar
    Graham

    Not to pretend that the original violent demonstrations didn’t happen or to downplay how nasty they were, but I wonder how easy it is to create a scare about a – or multiple – imminent far-right protests through apparent social media messages, which result in counter demonstrations to protests which never happen, and which receive massive, adulatory media coverage (and incongruously, for some reason feature large numbers of palestinian flags). It would also be to the advantage of the government of the day and to the public image of the police to maximise the apparent threat of these protests.

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