Worthy of Der Sturmer 

Lee Jakeman

If the Jews run everything, why don't they just use their considerable influence to bring peace to the Middle East? Or does the "Great Jewish Conspiracy" have some kind of ulterior motive for perpetuating war there? I guess The Guardian believes the latter.

max

Can't see the picture. It's not on the Grauniad link as well. que?

Paul

Please note that he sometimes presides over public lectures eat the LSE and is treated as if he were a respectable political scientist

Ian C

I am far from sure that this article "is about as classic an anti-semitic trope as exists". I think that this is your Jewish sensitivity. I know that there is a regular claim, mostly emanating form Palestine and taken up by others, that America is run by The Jews, but in this case was he not just describing the pressure US politicians get once the run for office? I have no truck with his general pink view of the world or the thrust of the article, but it does the Jews no favours if what seems to most people as a comment is auto-interpreted as anti-semitic. Because when true anti-semitism emerges, perhaps in a more dangerous and probably more subtle form, none will believe it if there are eternal cries filling the atmos (and blogos) sphere. It is something that needs factoring in to the research you are doing.

Beedeekay

If the Jews ran the world as anti-Semites like Jonathan Steele suggest, surely they would dismantle the Guardian and the BBC that regularly give voice to their reprehensible opinions.

I am amazed at my continued ability to be amazed by such appalling filth.

Stephen Pollard

Ian C - I didn't say the article is an antisemitic trope, because it isn't. It's just stupid. I wrote about the image, as is surely very clear.

Ian C

Had misread what you said Stephen - skim read then commented. Apologies.

James

Stephen mentions the All Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism report. Here's a snippet: "The report proposes that it be made an offence to download material from the internet that could incite racial or religious hatred." What's that worthy of? Iran or North Korea, I'd say, not to mention Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. The report, rather like Stephen's post, is hysterical and paranoid and seems to find the prospect of a Marxist police state very attractive.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article630722.ece

Joshua

"The report, rather like Stephen's post, is hysterical and paranoid"

Many individuals said exactly the same thing about Jews in the 1930s just before the gentiles of Europe murdered the vast majority of us.

James

"Many individuals said exactly the same thing about Jews in the 1930s just before the gentiles of Europe murdered the vast majority of us."

And there's more hysteria and paranoia, not to mention anti-gentile bigotry. If European gentiles hadn't died in huge numbers to defeat the Nazis, there would no Jews left at all: the Axis would have won the war. You seem to be a Nazi turned upsidedown: for "all Jews are evil", read "all goys are evil." Not an attitude best-calculated to ensure future harmony. And you must think a police state is the only way of ensuring Jewish safety from irrational gentile persecution.

paul quite-tall

"This will include an examination of how criticism of Israel and Zionism can cross-over into and become polluted by antisemitism "

My goodness, how convenient !! Let's legislate to repress any adverse comment on Israeli policy towards the Palestinians and anyone else who might get in the way of the West Bank land grab.
George Orwell we need you !

Commondog

Paul quite-tall.

"My goodness, how convenient !! Let's legislate to repress any adverse comment on Israeli policy towards the Palestinians"

Obviously you live in a geographical dip and find it impossible to pick up the BBC.

Commondog

Paul quite-tall.

Rest assured that if George Orwell were alive today, you would definitely feel like you don't need him.