Labour’s Jon Trickett and Wes Streeting talk anti-semitism row - BBC Newsnight

Shadow Local Government Secretary Jon Trickett and Labour MP Wes Streeting joined Kirsty Wark to discuss the anti-semitism row engulfing their party.

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[joconnell]

How is being critical of Israeli policy anti-Semitic? The statement "Israel should be removed to the US" is not anti-Semitic. It is a political statement based on the US' uncritical support of Israeli policy. Chomsky has been saying the same for decades.

[realitycheck]

Wes Streeting was a participant at an anti-BDS conference in Tel Aviv

[scottewing]

"Anti-semite trick we always use it"

( youtube )

[johnhowe]

Is criticising Israel anti-Semitism or simply expressing an opinion on the policies and practices of the Israeli state?

[Arakon]

Wes Streeting does look awfully silly saying that he's upset about this in part because it's a 'doorstep issue' in the week before an election while choosing to spend his time attacking his own party on national television rather than campaigning for the party he's supposed to represent.

[jackmansfield]

Newsnight do you realise how much you become detested when you peddle the dead cats and dog whistles?
STOP BEING PART OF THE PROBLEM.

[DipakBose-bqvv]

A large number of Muslims and Pakistanis make the Labour Party and The Guardian anti-Jews, anti-Hindu, anti-Indian,

[theophilusparabombastus]

Read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, you clowns.

[max]

Truth   is a all most totally successful campaign has been fought and largely won  to label anyone who disapproves of Israel as a anti Semite  and I deplore that .  But Livingstone brought up Hitler for no good reason, and went on to imply that he was lovely and sane at one point ( oddly the point according to Ken - was when he was a Zionist!)

[MrFergusferret]

This is why I would never vote labour again