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Mar 15, 2018 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Afshin Rattansi of RT & ex-Press TV is on #BBCQT tonight. He's not that well known to UK audiences so here's a thread with some of his previous work... /1
This is what Rattansi wrote about the suspicious death of "Zionist and Russian fugitive" Boris Berezovsky in 2013. He didn't think the UK media or "corrupt UK police" would get to the bottom of it /2 counterpunch.org/2013/03/25/as-…
He has tweeted that talk of antisemitism in the Labour Party is a smear, a "Zionist onslaught" from "The dark side of Jewish consciousness" /3
He thinks Israel and America are behind ISIS, obviously /4
And has tweeted that the White Helmets are "terrorist-linked" /5
Rattansi has interviewed antisemitic author Gilad Atzmon three times on his shows. Here they discuss why Israel is like Nazi Germany and whether it is a "Jewish lobby" or "Zionist lobby" that is so powerful /6
In this interview Atzmon calls Hamas rockets a "peaceful message" and says that it is "almost legitimate to rocket Israel". Rattansi tells him "You are always welcome here" /7
Rattansi once tweeted an article by Atzmon on the conspiracy site Veterans Today that warned about the "Jewish lobby" and listed "Sabbos Goyim operating within British politics." Here's the article /8 veteranstoday.com/2015/05/06/nam…
Rattansi has also interviewed Jeremy Corbyn (obviously). Corbyn called Israel a "rogue state par excellence" and said ""the world is beginning to understand the nature of Israel." /9
So enjoy @bbcquestiontime tonight! I am sure it will be enlightening. /End #bbcqt

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This week @johnmcdonnellMP is coming to Barnet to help JVL Chair Jenny Manson's campaign to become a Labour MP. What kind of MP would Manson be for Britain's largest Jewish community? The kind who gave evidence in Ken Livingstone's defence. Here's how she did it /1
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Jeremy Corbyn said some positive things about antisemitism, British Jews and the Labour Party in his speech today. Good for him. The problem is that everything else he says on the subject means he can't build any trust in the good stuff. I'll explain why /1
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Today's Sunday Telegraph reports a story from the new edition of my book, about an antisemitic article that @johnmcdonnellMP had removed from the @LRCinfo website. But who wrote the article? And what happened to its author? /1
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In my Guardian article yesterday I claimed that Corbyn and his team want to rewrite @TheIHRA definition on #antisemitism to neuter @UKLabour's own rule against antisemitism. This is key to understanding what they are trying to do and I'll explain it a bit more here /1
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Today's Observer reports Jeremy Corbyn on Press TV in 2012 saying "the hand of Israel" was behind Jihadist terrorism in Egypt. But there was another interesting guest on that show with Corbyn: a convicted Hamas terrorist called Dr Abdul Aziz Umar /1 theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
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Some people are saying Ken Stern, an author of the IHRA antisemitism definition, thinks Labour was right to change it and write their own Code of Conduct. I've got a paper Stern wrote in 2010 on the definition- let's see what he says (spoiler: it's not what the Canary claims) /1
The paper is on p.32 of this collection, from a conference I was at in 2010 kantorcenter.tau.ac.il/sites/default/… /2
Firstly, Stern didn't write the IHRA definition. He helped to write its predecessor for an EU agency called the EUMC but he was not its sole author: he names 8 other Jewish community reps & academics who contributed & then says "What we produced was changed somewhat by EUMC" /3
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