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7th December<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machpelah,\n kever Rochel, Kotel have no connection to the Jewish people or history;\n there never was a Temple, let alone two. What can the Jews do about \nthat? There are only 20m of us and we tend not to commit random mass \nmurder or threaten it when we are ‘offended’ or ‘dishonoured’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSo no-one does anything to counter these offenses against the Jewish \npeople. But declare a patent fact as true and cal out the Emperor and \nhis new clothes and a millions of people can be motivated to threaten \nviolence because it has always worked in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can’t live by appeasing terror – did we not learn that lesson already?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28th December<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-42502780<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And at number 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n “… a June edition of Sky News’ press preview, during which journalist\n Melanie Phillips made comments about Muslims that were considered \ninflammatory.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One wonders how many complaints there were or would have been about someone making ‘inflammatory’ remarks about ‘Zionists’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n I guess the truth can be inflammatory to those who have a \npredisposition to being inflamed. It’s a shame there is no Ibuleve \n(other medications are available) of the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan 3rd 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Re McMafia, [BBC Thriller series] for those who doubt the story, James Marriott in the Times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n “The real Ludmilla\u2019s fate was even more appalling than the show lets \non. She was forced to work seven day weeks in an Israeli brothel and was\n raped about twenty times every night.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, one wonders why \nthis particular serialisation where Jews and Israelis are shown to be \npart of an international network of gangsters, money launderers, people \ntraffickers spread across the globe, was so favoured by the BBC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n So far, for me, the whole thing is utterly unconvincing. The lead, Alex\n Godman, played by James Norton, loves his uncle and father dearly, but \nthey are two such unpleasant characters with so little in common with \nthe suave Godman, his affection is a little puzzling. Then we have a \ncorrupt Knesset member who is a major player in this gangster network \nand has an unnerving resemblance to Eddie Jordan along with an \nunplaceable accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to try to control my natural urge to \nshout ‘demonisation!’ followed by ‘antisemitic trope!’ and a good \nhelping of ‘why do Jews in dramas always wear pyramidal kippot at \nlevayas?!’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, it’s only drama, nu? Yes, but it is also an \ninteresting insight to widely held prejudices about the nature of the \nState of Israel and some of its institutions. Stereotypes roam \nunhindered across the screen and these are not restricted to Jews; \nIndians, Eastern Europeans, Russians, Bedouin and Arabs all receive the \ntreatment. Why should we be so special?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 21st<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As predicted, the “Labour Party’ has begun its purges, as one would \nexpect from a party infused with Marxists who probably idolise Stalin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n It’s all kicking off in Haringey where those who are not part of the \napproved Groupthink have been deselected. More councils and MPs will \nfollow, especially the Jewish Zionists – they have little chance of \nsurvival unless they can summon up their last drops of cringing \nsubmission to the Great Leader and settle for being supernumeraries in a North Korean style cult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Running a major London council along the lines of a Soviet partkom \ndictated by a Socialist Nomenklatura might be a blessing in disguise for\n the real Socialists in the party. It could demonstrate that seeking \ndemocratic control by undemocratic means to impose ideologies on social \ndemocratic and capitalist structures just will not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might\n also cause the rift that I hope will happen with the creation of a new \ncentrist social democratic party and leave the Trots to carry on with \nthe Jew haters and right-on politically correct New Puritans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nHaringey should be a red flag and red line for those of the Zio \npersuasion who have held on in the delusional belief that the only way \nthey can change the party is by internal persuasion. Those of us who \nhave, for years, observed the anti-Zionism and antisemitism of the far \nLeft and its fellow Hamas and Hezbollah admiring fellow-travellers, if \nthey haven’t already done so, should now gracefully withdraw and try to \ncreate something else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 28th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worm is turning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Most Labour council leaders in England \nand Wales have signed a joint letter fiercely attacking the \nMomentum-controlled committee that runs their own party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \nletter, published exclusively in today\u2019s Sunday Times, leaders of almost\n 70 councils, including Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and many \nLondon boroughs, say the actions of Labour\u2019s ruling national executive \ncommittee (NEC) are \u201cdangerous and alarming\u201d, \u201cuncomradely and \ndisrespectful\u201d and \u201can affront to the basic principles of democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Earlier this month, the NEC acquired a secure pro-Corbyn and Momentum \nmajority after three members of the hard-left group, including its \nleader, Jon Lansman, won seats on the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the \ncommittee voted to tell Labour-controlled Haringey council in north \nLondon to halt a controversial \u00a32bn housing scheme fiercely opposed by \nMomentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their letter, the leaders say: \u201cWe wish to make it \nclear to the NEC that it has no right or justification to interfere in \nor influence the legitimate actions of locally elected representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/\u2026\/labour-councils-defy-momentum-\u2026<\/a> (\u00a3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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7th December Machpelah, kever Rochel, Kotel have no connection to the Jewish people or history; there never was a Temple, let alone two. What can the Jews do about that? There are only 20m of us and we tend not to commit random mass murder or threaten it when we are ‘offended’ or ‘dishonoured’. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}