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#LondonCalling: The Labour Vote and Antisemitism @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#LondonCalling: The Labour Vote and Antisemitism @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/antisemitism-rises-again-in-the-british-labour-party-starmer-corbyn-israel-ed6b93a9

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is CBSi on the world. I'm John Bachelor. The headlines from London routinely,

0:28.6

BBC, tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian march in London, or the independent 12 arrested at pro-Palestine

0:36.0

march near Israeli embassy, Central London, or the telegraph, activists arrested, march to Israeli Embassy in London, police action.

0:47.0

All of this points to the fact that in London there is a constituency for these weekly marches that can become violent but are mostly just

0:57.1

a representation of a political vote that heretofore I have regarded as everywhere.

1:05.0

These are people who are sympathetic to Palestine or come from the many reaches of the British Empire once upon a time.

1:13.2

However, I learned from Joseph Sternberg,

1:16.6

the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

1:18.4

He's in London.

1:19.5

He writes political economics column,

1:22.3

that these marches are spoken of well by

1:27.1

certain members of the Labor Party. Here to four I've always understood that

1:31.8

Jeremy Corbyn that led labor, who led labor to a disaster showing, electing Boris Johnson instead several years past, was the problem for labor because of his many anti-Semitic

1:45.1

statements but now I learned that it's much more difficult for the new leader of

1:49.8

labor Kirstarma. Joe Seth, a very good evening to you.

1:54.1

Kier Starmer is a very able attorney. He's not especially colorful and he right now has

2:01.3

reason to be confident that the polls show that he will be the Prime

2:05.8

Minister come the next election, except you write of two members of labor standing for elections and by-elections I believe Mr. Ali in the

2:15.2

neighborhood of Manchester I believe. Mr. Jones I don't know what his constituency is, both of whom

2:22.0

have been boasting of statements that are anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Israeli hate statements.

2:31.0

Mr. Stormer is dealing with them how and is this now isolated or is it a

2:36.4

continuing problem for Mr. Stormer? Good evening to you.

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