Tuesday, 7 April 2020

A Good Start?

The Board of Deputies does not represent either that majority of British Jews which has no synagogue affiliation, or the rapidly growing Haredi community.

The Jewish Leadership Council is pure astroturfing by what little remains of the Conservative Party in London, with no noticeable success based on the General Election result in that metropolis.

The Community Security Trust is arguably an illegal organisation, a kind of goon squad on the streets on London, reminiscent of the Blackshirts.

The Jewish Labour Movement, for membership of which one need be neither Jewish nor Labour, was reconstituted out of the distant past by the Israeli Embassy in order to destroy Jeremy Corbyn, making it something of a surprise to learn that it still existed.

And the Chief Rabbi of whom, exactly? The United Synagogue has a nominal membership of 40,000, and a fully active membership that is almost certainly a great deal smaller than that.

In any case, those members never signed up to the political opinions of the Chief Rabbi of the day, and he, as an Orthodox rabbi, does not believe that Keir Starmer's wife's and children's rabbi is really a rabbi at all.

Is Ephraim Mirvis even a British citizen? If so, then when, exactly, did he become one? And returning to the numbers, fewer than 20 people per year are convicted of anti-Semitic crime in this country.

Less than one such conviction per year, on average, is for a violent offence. Is the entire criminal justice system part of the anti-Semitic conspiracy? Or is there no wave of anti-Semitic incidents in the first place?

Did Diane Abbott lose Hackney North and Stoke Newington last year? Did Rebecca Long-Bailey lose Salford and Eccles? Did Ian Mearns lose Gateshead?

Starmer and Angela Rayner should have told these self-appointed "community leaders" to get lost. But they didn't. So don't vote Labour. The Social Democratic Party exists. The Workers Party of Britain exists.

And the Budget of March 2020, and the Government's response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, have ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976.

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