{"id":403373,"date":"2019-04-19T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labour-party-derided-over-passover-tweet-fail-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:46:59","slug":"labour-party-derided-over-passover-tweet-fail-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labour-party-derided-over-passover-tweet-fail-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party derided over Passover tweet fail \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cb9c1ebdda4c86a3a8b457f.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Amid an ongoing anti-Semitism row that has plagued the party for months, Labour\u2019s well-intentioned (now-deleted) Passover tweet contained a galling error that did not escape eagle-eyed Twitter users.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cAs Jewish people prepare for Passover, we&#8217;re wishing everyone in the Jewish community chag sameach. #Passover,\u201d<\/em> Labour tweeted. Harmless enough, right? Sadly, one critical detail in the accompanying image in the tweet is what did the damage.<\/p>\n<p>The image contained a loaf of bread alongside a Star of David and a cup. The entire festival of passover is specifically entered around not eating bread, however, as legions of irate commenters tweeted at the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jews don&#8217;t eat bread at passover. The main thing about passover is that you don&#8217;t eat bread. You eat matzoh. Lots of Jews who do nothing else all year will stop eating bread for passover. It&#8217;s Jew 101.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hugorifkind\/status\/1119203704501153793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a loaf of bread. Passover is about NOT eating bread, this just shows your complete lack of knowledge of our community. Utterly disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GnasherJew #LeftAntisemitism (@GnasherJew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GnasherJew\/status\/1119201192284913664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Re that Labour bread thing.. I am genuinely sitting at my desk smiling to myself&#8230; it&#8217;s almost tragic how incompetent that error is. Like&#8230; you had one job<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Mendel (@Mendelpol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mendelpol\/status\/1119199111272718338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Next up, Labour Lunch to celebrate Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pete Kennedy (@PeteKennedy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteKennedy\/status\/1119202236704395264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Labour has been dogged by accusations that is has acted too slowly in investigating claims of anti-Semitism in its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>In February, a group of Labour MP&#8217;s announced they were quitting the party over both its handling of Brexit and what they saw as an <em>&#8220;institutionally anti-Semitic&#8221;<\/em> leadership.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0became such a toxic issue for the party that it even led to veteran Labour MP Margaret Hodge allegedly calling Corbyn an <em>\u201canti-Semite&#8221;<\/em> in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/451719-labour-split-new-party\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">&#8216;Dumped old fashioned politics&#8217;: 7 Labour MPs resign from the party over Brexit, &#8216;anti-Semitism&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxs\/5c6a92afdda4c8af538b4577.JPG 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xs\/5c6a92afdda4c8af538b4577.JPG 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c6a92afdda4c8af538b4577.JPG 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/m\/5c6a92afdda4c8af538b4577.JPG 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/l\/5c6a92afdda4c8af538b4577.JPG 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/article\/5c6a92afdda4c8af538b4577.JPG 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxl\/5c6a92afdda4c8af538b4577.JPG 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/457007-labour-bread-passover-jews\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an ongoing anti-Semitism row that has plagued the party for months, Labour\u2019s well-intentioned (now-deleted) Passover tweet contained a galling error that did not escape eagle-eyed Twitter users. \u201cAs Jewish people prepare for Passover, we&#8217;re wishing everyone in the Jewish community chag sameach. #Passover,\u201d Labour tweeted. Harmless enough, right? Sadly, one critical detail in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403373","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}