All very very well said. I think Owen Jones is incapable of nuanced thought, like most ideologues. He's been indoctrinated by his communist (no exaggeration) parents. He's is also a group thinker - like most communists are as the individual is no longer valid). I simply cannot believe that the very people who shout "racist!" at the drop of a hat have become racists themselves - far more extreme ones than any I've ever heard about. Because chasing Jews down the street or excluding them based on their race/religion is the absolute form of racism. It is pure conscious deliberate discrimination. And it's happening in our country by cultural Brits and Muslims alike. It's truly shocking. For me it's the one-sidedness of it all. I am happy with the outrage at the Israeli government. But there has never ever been outrage about Oct 7 or the hostages by these same people. I find that really odd and it can only be explained by deep indoctrination in far-leftism (apart from Linekar who is just an unintellectual self-absorbed prat).
The first article I’ve read that references ‘Gazawood’ albeit not by name.
No one seems to wonder why a deeply conservative society has suddenly allowed women to become front and centre of photos showing people struggling to get food.
Of course people are going hungry and the most vulnerable are at higher risk of disease and malnutrition and this is truly horrific and inhumane. No one would deny this is a human tragedy.
But our press seems determined to portray this as a pre planned policy of Israel’s, to starve the whole of Gaza to death. Where is the outrage at Hamas in our media?
And where is the outrage at 20,000 Ukrainian children who’ve been kidnapped by Russia?
The whole mainstream media is obsessed with flagellating Israel and Jews and the more we read it the more desensitised we become and the more likely we are to start to unconsciously believe these libels are true.
I really find it hard to understand why anyone can have a hatred for any group of people, unless they have actual personal experience rather than base their opinion on stories by others,
When I was 18yo I was drawn to play golf with a multi-millionaire. He said something to me which stay with me. He said, always take people how you find them, never listen to what others tell you about them, make up your own mind. Often, people that say bad things about others have an agenda.
I have many Jewish friends, and do not have a bad word to say against any of them. I have always found them decent people, unlike my personal experience with others from the Middle East.
As an American, who feels like things got bad here, I am dumbfounded at the self-destructive nature of Britain's current crop of 'thought leaders.' You are really in the frontier of pushing back against self hate.
I knew about the horrible incident with the 50 French-Jewish youth on the plane, but not about the banning of Jewish comedians.
Until the Jones and Linekars of the world see their own hypocrisy, they will keep digging their own hole. The question I have is who is going to fill the hole in and who will still be inside? Will Jones, et al, climb out? Will England be burying the antisemitism, or the useful idiots, or both?
All very very well said. I think Owen Jones is incapable of nuanced thought, like most ideologues. He's been indoctrinated by his communist (no exaggeration) parents. He's is also a group thinker - like most communists are as the individual is no longer valid). I simply cannot believe that the very people who shout "racist!" at the drop of a hat have become racists themselves - far more extreme ones than any I've ever heard about. Because chasing Jews down the street or excluding them based on their race/religion is the absolute form of racism. It is pure conscious deliberate discrimination. And it's happening in our country by cultural Brits and Muslims alike. It's truly shocking. For me it's the one-sidedness of it all. I am happy with the outrage at the Israeli government. But there has never ever been outrage about Oct 7 or the hostages by these same people. I find that really odd and it can only be explained by deep indoctrination in far-leftism (apart from Linekar who is just an unintellectual self-absorbed prat).
another brilliant article, I hope Mr Jones reads it
The first article I’ve read that references ‘Gazawood’ albeit not by name.
No one seems to wonder why a deeply conservative society has suddenly allowed women to become front and centre of photos showing people struggling to get food.
Of course people are going hungry and the most vulnerable are at higher risk of disease and malnutrition and this is truly horrific and inhumane. No one would deny this is a human tragedy.
But our press seems determined to portray this as a pre planned policy of Israel’s, to starve the whole of Gaza to death. Where is the outrage at Hamas in our media?
And where is the outrage at 20,000 Ukrainian children who’ve been kidnapped by Russia?
The whole mainstream media is obsessed with flagellating Israel and Jews and the more we read it the more desensitised we become and the more likely we are to start to unconsciously believe these libels are true.
I really find it hard to understand why anyone can have a hatred for any group of people, unless they have actual personal experience rather than base their opinion on stories by others,
When I was 18yo I was drawn to play golf with a multi-millionaire. He said something to me which stay with me. He said, always take people how you find them, never listen to what others tell you about them, make up your own mind. Often, people that say bad things about others have an agenda.
I have many Jewish friends, and do not have a bad word to say against any of them. I have always found them decent people, unlike my personal experience with others from the Middle East.
As an American, who feels like things got bad here, I am dumbfounded at the self-destructive nature of Britain's current crop of 'thought leaders.' You are really in the frontier of pushing back against self hate.
I knew about the horrible incident with the 50 French-Jewish youth on the plane, but not about the banning of Jewish comedians.
Until the Jones and Linekars of the world see their own hypocrisy, they will keep digging their own hole. The question I have is who is going to fill the hole in and who will still be inside? Will Jones, et al, climb out? Will England be burying the antisemitism, or the useful idiots, or both?
Thank you for your sanity!