National Socialist Party Has A Anti-Semitic Problem

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36157027

Labour has 'serious anti-Semitism problem', peers warn

The Labour Party has a "serious problem" with anti-Semitism, a senior Labour peer has warned.
Labour's Naz Shah was suspended from the party pending an investigation after she made a number of comments about Israel on social media.
Lord Levy told BBC Newsnight he believed anti-Semitism existed across the political divide, but it seemed "more prominent" within Labour.
Ms Shah has made a "profound apology" in the Commons for her actions.

Ms Shah, who is the MP for Bradford West, has been widely criticised for her Facebook posts which she made before she became an MP.
In one post she suggested Israel should be moved to the United States.

Lord Levy, a former chief fundraiser for Labour, told the BBC her comments displayed "ignorance", and he was left "scratching his head with despair as to how people like this can enter our parliament with such a lack of knowledge, discretion and sensitivity".

His comments were echoed by cross-bench peer Baroness Neuberger, who also said Labour's problem of anti-Semitism was "attached to Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader", and added that it was "an issue with the hard left".
Initially Mr Corbyn warned Ms Shah about what he described as her "offensive and unacceptable" posts, but Prime Minister David Cameron branded them racist and called for her suspension in the Commons.

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[pErvinalia]

Mustn't criticise Israel.

[cronus]

Mustn't criticise Israel.

I thought Arab Muslims were Semites too? If you ask me there ain't many innocent hands in the Middle East. Maybe I need to join the Labour Party?

[Svartalf]

that's not a problem about labour, that's a problem about certain labourite being anti jewsh moslems

[Tyrannical]

Most Jews aren't even Semites.

[Svartalf]

Mustn't criticise Israel.

I thought Arab Muslims were Semites too? If you ask me there ain't many innocent hands in the Middle East. Maybe I need to join the Labour Party?

actually, they are, that's why I'm a real anti semite, I hate arabs more than I do Jews, and I'm a staunch anti zionist in the first place.

[Svartalf]

Most Jews aren't even Semites.

I know ashkenazi aren't, but don't tell them that, you'd break their fragile little spirits.
and anyway, it's a polite fiction that allows hating all Jews without checking their exact affiliation.

[cronus]

The Romanians have more than a horse-meat scandal to answer for.

[Svartalf]

Lolwhut? I know they keep sending their effing roma here, for which they ought to be kicked out of the EU, but what do you mean?

[pErvinalia]

Who's "they" exactly, and how do they "send them"?

[NineBerry]

Corbyn becoming Labour leader (End of 2015) has caused a problem with antisemitism? And the example given is that of an MP having been elected in mid 2015 and having previously made antisemitic comments on Facebook in 2014. There must have been a time machine involved somewhere.

Oh and here we have the old problem of understanding words by their etymology. Antisemitism has nothing to do with Semites. It is a clear word meaning group-focused enmity against people with Jewish ethnicity.

[Tyrannical]

He's talking about Gypsies. The one group of people the Nazis tried to genocide that no one cared about. Even got a pass during the Nuremberg trials.

[Svartalf]

I refuse to restrict the word to Jews, I'll go on applying it to all semites.
the jewish folk who have kidnapped the word for themselves a;lone well deserve the hatred for diverting a word from its actual meaning.

[NineBerry]

It was European (mostly German) antisemites in the 19th century that proudly called themselves antisemites and they did mean ethnic Jews.

[Svartalf]

but now that Europe is being invaded by ethnic arabs (and I mean from the Maghreb, not the Syrian refugees who are a raindrop in the sea), it's high time to revive the actual etymology of the term.