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My new book, 'This Land', out in September. Socialist, antifascist, Guardian columnist, author, losing my Northern accent every passing day. Sad.

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    1. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      Anti-Semitism on the left not only exists, but there’s a wider group of people who are in total denial about it and dismiss any suggestion it’s there as a smear campaign. This is completely out of order and has to be confronted and defeated.

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    2. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      Yes, right wing elements will always hijack, weaponise and manipulate any issue. That doesn’t mean the issue doesn’t exist. If I start randomly punching people, right wing elements would use that against the left. That doesn’t mean I’m not randomly punching people!

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    3. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      You can both condemn and oppose anti-Semitism, and oppose Israel’s brutal and illegal occupation. And - and here’s a critical point - you can have a conversation about each without bringing in the other.

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    4. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      If you’re someone who, as soon as anyone raises anti-Semitism, immediately says “what about what Israel?” then you’re part of the problem.

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    5. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      Anti-Semitism is not something which appeared in Germany in 1933 and vanished in 1945. It has a 2,000 year history and is embedded in our culture. It exists inside and outside the left. But our standards on the left have to be the highest of all.

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    6. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      I have firmly socialist Jewish friends who voted for Corbyn twice - some who joined Labour because of him - who are upset and distressed because of how they see people online purporting to be left wing denying anti Semitism or recycling anti Semitic tropes. It’s outrageous.

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    7. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      I’m not going to shut about anti Semitism because it would be politically convenient to do so, or because the right are hijacking the issue. Don’t want an issue to be weaponised by the right? The answer is to take on the issue, not deny it.

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    8. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      Only a small minority on the left are anti Semitic. But that fact should shock us, not encourage complacency. Nobody should be anti Semitic on the left, not a single person. So we have to foster a left wing culture that makes it unacceptable.

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    9. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      The Chakrabarti report has an ambitious set of recommendations. It should have been implemented in full by the party machine two years ago and it hasn’t been. That must now happen as one of the defiant missions of the party.

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    10. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      It’s up to all of us to confront anti Semitism. See people denying it exists? See people denying caricatures of exploiting hooked nosed Jewish financiers is anti Semitism? See people saying “what about Israel?” whenever a Jewish person mentions anti Semitism? Challenge them!

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      Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

      See this? If you’re anti Semitic, that’s the Labour leadership putting you on notice. So either comprehensively change your outlook or you are going to be kicked out for good.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/29/john-mcdonnell-says-labour-antisemitism-will-now-be-eradicated …

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        1. Owen Jones  🌹‏Verified account @OwenJones84 29 Mar 2018

          Another thing: there's a big difference between being a *leftist* and a *conspiracist*. Leftists understand capitalism as a system of power relations. Conspiracists think there are shadowy groups of individuals pulling the strings. This lends itself to anti-Semitism.

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        2. Maybe I like my bubble‏ @CasualObserverK 29 Mar 2018
          Replying to @mfcrocker

          I think there are many who aren't antisemetic who are in permanent defensive mode as a result of endless, often bizarre media attacks against Jeremy over the years. So when a justifiable criticism arises (like this), they just package it with the rest and refuse to engage.

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        1. HillaryWasRight‏ @SnarkyMeddler 29 Mar 2018
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          I'll believe it when I see it. Btw, isn't Ken Livingston back to being a member of @UKLabour??

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        1. Peter A. Russell2291‏ @Planet_Pedro 29 Mar 2018
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          "Putting you on notice." NOT GOOD ENOUGH. #Antisemitism

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        2. Julia‏ @julia_politics 29 Mar 2018
          Replying to @OwenJones84

          Well said and I hope we can extend this to all abuse on social media working with the PLP - general voluntary code of conduct despite genuine disagreements or concerns. All sides. Abuse, report, do not engage as it perpetuates the problem.

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        3. Rose Francis‏ @hazelhurst 29 Mar 2018
          Replying to @julia_politics @OwenJones84

          I think we should call it out. Not calling it out is why we are where we are.

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        1. JuniorJunior‏ @HapHapJyJy 29 Mar 2018
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          *unless you're on the NEC

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        2. Lineal Conker Champion of the World‏ @NUFC_OurClub 29 Mar 2018

          Don;'t be banal

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