When does someone who is ‘not an antisemite’ become an antisemite? Interesting question. Took me ten minutes to sort out the wording. But the answer, even though you’d think it should be some event or duration, is in fact ‘Jeremy Corbyn’. And here’s why.

The Russians tried to murder a couple of people in Salisbury. Ok, no-one saw the poison in an envelope marked “if undelivered please return to the Kremlin” but really you didn’t need to. Everyone simply ‘knew’. Except Jeremy Corbyn. Who refused to make any assumptions, needed the full ‘due process’ and inquiries and investigations before he’d commit himself to make any remarks against (Mother) Russia or place blame or demand sanctions.

Fast forward just one little month and Syria attacks its ‘rebels’ in an horrendous gas attack. The worst of chemical weapons, chlorine, liberally used on a civilian population. Aided and abetted by Russia, obviously, they love a good poisoning. The world condemned the action and issued threats against Syria. The world except Jeremy Corbyn. “We don’t know for sure it was the Syrians” he said. We need proof. We need investigations, blah, blah, fucking blah.

On Monday 67 people were killed by Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border. And the first one to condemn the act almost immediately was… Jeremy Corbyn! Not only demanding condemnation from the international community but also ACTION! Jeremy Corbyn, the world’s most inactive, prevaricating, equivocating, fence-sitting, inquiry-demanding, pedantic, sure-of-all-the-facts-ingly annoying person of all time, cuts the crap for once and makes an instant stand.

I never mind criticism of Israel. Its more than allowed, its to be encouraged. As with all proper democracies, freedom of speech, freedom to disagree is essential. But when its wrong is when Israel is treated differently from others doing allegedly horrible things. When the virtues of considering all sides of the situation are suddenly, uniquely ignored. Palestinians got shot. We know that. Yet there was emphatically a context in which this occurred. One that Jeremy either chose not to consider or decided unilaterally was irrelevant. Or maybe because, as he has stated, ‘Hamas are HIS friends’. As, coincidentally, are shit-loads of other all-out, no-holds-barred antisemites.

Happy Liladay (started with all guns blazing at 5.45, bless…)

A xxxx