Mr Ali on full campaign mode. (Photo credit: BBC)
In a secretly recorded clip, at a Labour party campaign meeting, Azhar Ali was recorded saying this:
“The Egyptians are saying that they warned Israel 10 days earlier… Americans warned them a day before [that] there’s something happening… They deliberately took the security off, they allowed… that massacre that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want.”
– BBC.
After this was revealed, many within the Jewish community accused him of “blood libel”, particularly the group that masquerades as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
This in actual fact has nothing to do with religion or race, it is simply a conspiracy theory, and many believe many conspiracy theories – it is highly unfair and absurd that many in the Jewish community can throw accusations around that no other group does in this way. For example, if someone had said that Iran allowed an attack inside their country so they can go and invade parts of Iraq, no Shia Muslims would refer to that as racially or religiously motivated hatred. So why do we allow some within the Jewish community to harass and bully people in this way?
We are giving favourable treatment to a group that no other group gets, by pandering to this craziness.
Phrases such as “antisemitism” and “blood libel” are weaponised by some within the Jewish community to attack and harass. To exert undue influence. What do they even mean by “blood libel” and “antisemitism” – they are so loosely defined, that it seems anyone within the Jewish community can make any accusation and claim it to be antisemitism or blood libel, and no one even questions it. Well, what is the genuine meaning of blood libel – below is an explanation of it by some within the Jewish community:
“Essentially it implies that Jews murder Christian and non-Jewish children to use their blood in Jewish rituals and holidays,” Ms Spitalnick (press secretary for the progressive pro-Israel group J Street) told the BBC.
“At one point it was tied in with Passover. Using the term would imply the using of non-Jewish blood for the baking of Matzah.”
Blood libel myths run counter to Jewish theology which prohibits murder.
The Torah also forbids the consumption of animal blood – Kosher meat is drained of blood. Many Jewish scholars interpret the relevant Torah passage to also proscribe human blood.
A representative for the Center for Jewish History in New York referred the BBC to the definition of blood libel in the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
That reference work says that in addition to the accusations of murder, blood libel may connote “another form of the belief that Jews had been and still were responsible for the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ” and “popular beliefs about the murder-lust of the Jews and their bloodthirstiness, based on the conception that Jews hate Christianity and mankind in general”.
– BBC
What Mr Ali said comes nowhere near what real blood libel means.
This weaponisation of antisemitism, blood libel and any other such phrases has got to stop – because if it doesn’t then it results in situations like this where false accusations are interfering with our democracy; with our electoral process.
Mt Ali has apologised for his comments and that really should be it.
But alas, this weaponisation, this harassment, and trying to exert undue influence via this weaponisation has been given a free pass for too long – and it has now resulted in people manufacturing fake cases all over the place – we see it on social media every…single… day… and they do it because they see that it has become an effective tool for some within the Jewish community to get what they want. Here are some examples of falsely manufactured cases of “antisemitism”:
Some in the Jewish community in the UK are already saying Mr Ali needs to “win back the trust of the Jewish community” – essentially, once elected he will be at the “beck and call” of Israel – because they are falsely connecting his conspiracy theory about Israel, with it being an attack on the Jewish community in the UK – how does that make any sense? This is insanity. Has no reasonable logic or rationale.
Amidst all this, the good people of Rochdale now surely have to ask themselves if Mr Ali is still the best person to represent them – because we can be sure that if elected, then on Israel-Palestine issues, Mr Ali will forever be in favour of Israel, because he will know if he is not then he will get these false accusations and new ones rear their ugly heads again.
