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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I just watched the Synagogue vigil on TV. One of the speakers was David Lammy (where was the PM?). He was mercilessly heckled because of his past pronouncements on Israel, which are taken to stoke antisemitism.
His words were useless; thought are with you; we are with you; we have your back ... all that platitudinal stuff.
Apart from Starmer, other Labour front-benchers plus Rayner turned up. The Home Secretary was there and looked absolutely unphased. Remember, in her address yesterday, she never mentioned antisemitism.
Not only was yesterday evil stuff, it was an indictment of the government that has failed to deal with antisemitism in a definitive way. Stopping any marches that fuel antisemitism; educating whities on these demos who wear the Palestinian shawl but have absolutely no sense of history or proportion or an understanding of how they stoke antisemitism.
Will the government's focus still be on a definition of the word "Islamophobia"? As far as I am concerned there is no Islamophobia.
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Carrying out acts of Islamophobia and anti-semitism are surely both hate crimes.
The PM's wife is Jewish so he is not as distant from that community as you might want to believe.
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Since moving into Downing Street, the Starmers have kept up a tradition of having Shabbat dinners on Friday nights, although the Prime Minister has admitted that his job has meant it has been difficult for him to join in. Sir Keir has called the Shabbat a “rock in the week” for the family.
He defended the tradition with unusual passion when he was criticsed by Rishi Sunak before the election for saying that he would still seek to take Friday evenings off in Downing Street.
The family have also attended the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, an imposing building across the street from Lord’s Cricket Ground, and last November Sir Keir made a visit to another London synagogue, in South Hampstead.
Lady Starmer still has members of her extended family living in Tel Aviv, and Sir Keir has spoken about how they were affected by the Oct 7 terror attack by Hamas and the subsequent war in Gaza.
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