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PREVIEW: #ANTISEMITISM: #LABOUR: Speaking with colleague Joseph Sternberg, WSJ, based in London, re the troubles for the Labour Party when it aims to eliminate members who routinely demonstrate antisemitism by repeating grotesque conspiracy falsehoods --

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

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PREVIEW: #ANTISEMITISM: #LABOUR: Speaking with colleague Joseph Sternberg, WSJ, based in London, re the troubles for the Labour Party when it aims to eliminate members who routinely demonstrate antisemitism by repeating grotesque conspiracy falsehoods -- such as claiming that Israel committed the October 7 massacre in order to excuse an attack on Gaza and Hamas. More of this later tonight.

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This is John Bachelor speaking with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, member of the

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editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's based in London. He writes

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political economics observing the anti-Semitism and the Labor Party that

0:11.8

Kirstirmer the leader of labor, has worked very hard to rid

0:16.3

himself of these last years since the catastrophe of Jeremy Corbyn's last general election,

0:22.0

looking to the next general election where labor is

0:24.6

doing very well in the polling however most recently reminded that all of the

0:29.8

anti-Semites in labor are not Jeremy Corbyn, there are others. One man running for

0:35.4

labor's office in a by-election advanced the fantastic smear that Israel had

0:41.6

staged the attack on October 7th, murdered its own citizens in order to

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have an excuse to invade Gaza.

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Quite fantastic, except Joe responds by saying,

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well, listen to Joe, he explains.

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This work of fiction is part of the problem that Kie Kie Kieer-Stormer has

1:01.0

in organizing his voting for the general election later this year.

1:06.8

Joseph Sternberg, Wall Street Journal.

1:09.6

Well I mean this is definitely not a mainstream view because most people just

1:13.6

understand as a matter of common sense that it is completely bogus.

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The problem is that it is a anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that is gaining traction in some communities.

1:30.3

So it may potentially gain traction on the political far left, the neo-Marxists like Jeremy

1:36.1

Corbin. It also does seem to be gaining a certain amount of traction within Britain's Muslim community, which is really the source of the

1:46.8

latest political challenge for Kirstormer and Labor, because Mr. Ali, the

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