{"id":398839,"date":"2019-03-10T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/would-railing-at-a-labour-saudi-lobby-be-racist\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T06:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T05:58:42","slug":"would-railing-at-a-labour-saudi-lobby-be-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/would-railing-at-a-labour-saudi-lobby-be-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Railing at a Labour Saudi Lobby be Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Owen Jones has made a short video discussing Labour\u2019s crisis over anti-semitism. There are some good elements to it, not least the warning against conspiratorial thinking, and an admission, admittedly a fairly limited one, that the Labour leadership should not be accused of being anti-semitic (and implicitly that the party is not \u201cinstitutionally anti-semitic\u201d.)<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, however, there is little more to recommend. This is another example of how Jones has failed to grasp the larger issues involved, and how he views the anti-semitism issue through an astoundingly narrow lens \u2013 one that refuses to depart from a simplistic identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Jones is supposed to be one of the very few prominent voices of support for Corbyn in the media, this is depressing indeed. And it is why I have taken the time to analyse a couple of the most glaring flaws in the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Qxk0hW0_EQ\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\">&lt;span<br \/>data-mce-type=\u201dbookmark\u201d style=\u201ddisplay: inline-block; width: 0px;<br \/>overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\u201d<br \/>class=\u201dmce_SELRES_start\u201d&gt;\ufeff&lt;\/span&gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First, Jones makes a telling analogy, and one that highlights his confusion.<\/p>\n<p>He objects to Labour members raising the issue of Israel when Jewish comrades want to talk about anti-semitism by noting that no one would think it acceptable to deflect the conversation to Saudi Arabia if Muslims sought to talk about Islamophobia.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jones ignores a very serious difference between these two examples. The fact is that there is a very strong and vocal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/would-railing-at-a-labour-saudi-lobby-be-racist\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Jones has made a short video discussing Labour\u2019s crisis over anti-semitism. There are some good elements to it, not least the warning against conspiratorial thinking, and an admission, admittedly a fairly limited one, that the Labour leadership should not be accused of being anti-semitic (and implicitly that the party is not \u201cinstitutionally anti-semitic\u201d.) Sadly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}