I read the Times. No idea why, its historical. But I like it, obviously, or I’d read something else. Even though I actually pretty much hate all other newspapers. Especially the Daily Mail. Which is why I force myself to read the Sunday edition just to know what ‘the other side’ thinks. Although really, that ‘other side’, doesn’t think so much as just ‘react’. I’m too left wing and too young to read the Mail or the Sun. I’m too right wing to read the Independent and too Jewish to read the Guardian. I never saw the point of the Daily Express. Even though their eponymous building is London’s finest shrine to Art Deco, which I love. But can no longer wander round because since Goldman Sacks took it over you need CIA clearance to enter. Even a year after the bankers left it empty. But we also get the Jewish Chronicle. One of the oldest papers in the land. Mel likes it so she can see who died this week. Sounds morbid but that probably accounts for 90% of their subscriptions. (Old joke: woman: “I vant to put an obituary for my husband. I vant to say: ‘Shlomo Cohen; died’.” Don’t you want to say anything else? How nice he was, good father, wonderful husband, that sort of thing? “He was a lousy father and a terrible husband. ‘Shlomo Cohen; died’.” Well look, the price is fixed for up to 10 words, why not add something? Pause on the line. Then: “Shlomo Cohen; died. Volvo for sale”.)
The Jewish Chronicle has other stuff too. And as my paper was late arriving and, like every dinosaur who ever preceded me, I refuse to read my paper online, because then its not a fucking ‘paper’, I browsed the JC. And I learned something new. The hard lefties in my country simply hate the fucking Jews. All of them. All of us. Israel in particular but by a long way not exclusively. Ok, that’s barely new. After the Corbyn years the entire nation is familiar with constant and massive overt anti-Semitism. Which was ‘never racism’ to which Jeremy was famously (over and over and over again) opposed to in all forms.
The first article was about an ongoing saga relating to Professor David Miller (hard left; Syrian chemical weapons denier) at Bristol University, who is an evil and vile person, not content with persecuting Jewish students, he sees fit to pit all other students against them whenever possible. And the University does… nothing.
The second article was about the BBC (moderate left, issues with unbiased reporting) having a panel to decide whether Jews are an ethnic minority. Like, what else would they be? Electric cars? No. Trees? Hmmmm. Part of the aardvark family? Doubtful. As a ‘race’ is defined by physical characteristic and an ‘ethnicity’ by learned ones, unless you can find babies born wearing a black hat and white fringes, I’m gonna stick with ‘ethnicity’. But the BBC choose to debate the validity of this. (They need to read “Jews don’t count”, David Baddeil’s new book, which unfortunately came out a few months too soon to include this stupidity in its content).
And the third article was by far the best. The Labour Party employed a man to control their social media. At which he’s something of an expert. There are no complaints about his work standards. But plenty once they discovered that he’s not only an Israeli(!!!!) but served with the army there as an IDF intelligence operative. So now the Labour Party, supported in this by John McDonnell, big surprise, are trying to get rid of the man. On the grounds that he’s… Israeli. Nothing discriminatory about that. Other than the rabid discrimination. Everyone’s getting lawyered up and it won’t end well. But because most people are so inured to these type of events, its doubtful that it will upset too many. Outside of the JC.
Happy Saturday, or ‘shabbat shalom’ as they say in the Socialist Worker.
A xxxx
