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The anti-anti-semitism that actually promotes Jew-hating
When Siobhain McDonagh revealed that she thought all Jews were rich capitalists, she exposed the genuine bigotry at the heart of this crass crusade, writes DAVID ROSENBERG
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THE right-wing Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh recently castigated the “hard left” for its strident opposition to capitalism.
She told Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys that “anti-capitalist politics are at the root of anti-semitism.” Humphrys is no friend of the left, but was taken aback. He asked her whether she believed that “to be anti-capitalist you have to be anti-semitic.” Astonishingly, she replied: “Yes.”
It was an appalling slur by a Labour politician on everyone who is consciously fighting poverty, austerity, homelessness and zero-hours contracts in capitalist Britain to label them anti-semitic, but it also revealed the ignorant and harmful stereotypes that are actually shared by rightwingers about Jews, even those that think of themselves as pro-Jewish. McDonagh thinks all Jews are rich capitalists.
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