Stephan Stach retweetet
I’m an admirer of Jonathan’s writing but sorry I think this is a cowardly piece. Many excellent points are made, many groups are rightly called out for their Jew-hate or complicitness, but GB News get mentioned twice, because they fulfilled their remit and platformed a far left voice (which isn’t mentioned, implying this came from the right).
Anecdotal this may be, and of course people would come up and say this me, but at school, events, shul, nearly every Jew I meet says they only watch GB News now because it’s the only channel that doesn’t go out of its way to gaslight and lie about Israel and Jews. To repeatedly highlight the channel, as though it’s part of why Jews are being attacked, is just total bullshit. To do it in the context of the years of lies about Israel and Jews from his own organisation, even with the slight dig at the most recent disgusting Guardian article, is almost comical.
But the main problem I have, is how on earth is it possible to write hundreds of words on the recent avalanche of attacks on Jews in the diaspora, calling out everyone under the sun supposedly responsible, and yet NOT ONCE mention Islam/Islamists/Islamic extremists?! It’s cowardice, it’s a deliberate muddying of reality, and I’m fucking sick of it.
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