Burnham Rules Out Coalition With the Green Party
Andy Burnham has ruled out a coalition deal with the Greens over the party’s recently-passed conference motion on Zionism, calling it “antisemitic”.
Burnham said: “It is wrong. It is antisemitic. This side of the House will have nothing to do with it”, adding that “we cannot support a partnership with a party that holds the position that has recently been adopted”.
How, pray tell, is it antisemitic?
The more I hear people say that it is, the more I am convinced that the motion is actually correct. Calling things antisemitic that are not antisemitic is the most common move of the Israel shill to poison the well.
If his criticism were simply that it's too broad, solutionizing for another country or not great policy that would be one thing. I could take that as legitimate criticism. Calling it anti-semitic just discredits his opinion.
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From The Independent:
I agree with him on this one, personally.
I have my own reservations about the motion, but it isn't really antisemitic. I think calling something "antisemitic" is simply used as a shortcut to discredit anything they don't like related to Israel and Judaism. There's never any reason given for something like this being antisemitic, it "just is".
The word "antisemitic" has been weaponised and worn out to the point of meaningless now.
The Greens are the only mainstream political party in Britain speaking out against an ongoing genocide. As such there is literally no other party I can bring myself to vote for.
"Islamophobia" is also at that point.
I'll bite... how?
It's a word now synonymous with racism. Critiquing a murderous religion is now comparable to brown people bad.
There wasn't even a word for it in Arabic until recent. It's an abberation used for nefarious purposes, resulting in attempts at blasphemy laws.
was not really worth asking to be honest.
islam is no more violent than any other religion.
So if you single it out for special treatment then that is islamophobia.
Yeah all those Buddhist terrorists killing people.
Laughably facile take.
Exactly what an islamo-commie would say.
Islamo - commie! Hilarious. I'm getting that on a t shirt.
What a bell-end.