David Baddeil wrote a rather interesting book recently called ‘Jews don’t count’. It’s a rather novel way of looking at anti-semitism and how no-one considers it as ‘racism’, not really, even up to (shadow) Government level. Because although Jews are, by any possible definition, an ‘ethnic minority’, we don’t get any of the usual benefits that all others enjoy in terms of (normally quite obsessive) protection from slurs, slights, abuse, violence, desecration and discrimination. If I were stand up in Hyde Park next to a person as they attack Gazans for having the audacity to attack an innocent nation with thousands of lethal rockets, I’d be lambasted, cancelled, vilified on social media (even though I don’t use it). Especially if I was famous/political.

Yet Corbyn and McDonnell joined a protest last week which attacked Israel as ‘worse than Hitler’, called the defence of its people ‘another holocaust’ and even went so far as to say that ‘Marks and Spencer is like the Israeli embassy on every high street’. Even though it hasn’t been ‘Jewish owned’ for decades now. Diane Abbot was also there, but she really doesn’t count. In fact, as she proved more than once, she can’t count. Not past 10 anyway. Or, ‘7’, as she calls it.

So where do hard-lefties buy their underwear? That’s the question. If M&S is ‘boycotted’, where does Corbyn buy his pants, socks and vests now that there’s no more army surplus stores around? An interesting question that will be debated for years to come.

The long and short of it is that if people have really stupid views about Jews, then fuck ‘em. I don’t care. Because even if I did care, I’m not so daft as to think I might be able to change those views with one, carefully considered, 15-word sentence. And if they have stereotypical prejudices, as Corbyn does, then fuck him too. And just embrace the fact that he is an ignorant pig. It’s really easy.

Yet at Cambridge University they’ve now installed some new report-a-transgression system by which students, or staff, can ‘report’ any little incident in which they perceive some form of prejudice might possibly have occurred. And by ‘prejudice’ this is emphatically the modern interpretation, meaning any positive reference to anyone or anything that had any remote connection to the Empire or, God forbid, slavery!! Anything that even implies dilution of the Black Lives Matter ideology, or questions any Muslim religious or cultural concept. I’m guessing that jokes about the Irish, Polish or Chinese are definitely reportable. Obviously greater tolerance will be shown to those slagging off Jews. Obviously.

This is a very positive step. Encouraging wokeness to the level when every sane person might just as well pack up and go home. It attacks the right of any kind of freedom of speech and gives Universities, once the epicentres of free thinking, reason to just ban or ‘cancel’ anyone not adhering to the prevailing zeitgeist and questioning its views. It is a cross between the Cultural Revolution in China, the Spanish Inquisition and the KGB. I hope it makes them as happy as it makes them blinkered to open-mindedness.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx