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Of course, someone can be jewish and be far right. Someone can be black and own black slaves. Someone can be a woman and be against women's suffrage. Someone can be rich or poor and a class traitor, etc etc.

Someone's identity can and often does influence their politics, but they are not always in alignment, and their identity certainly doesn't negate their positions that are harmful towards others who share parts of their identity (all of this is often done in exchange for personal gain with these famous people who make a living off all this).

The "far right" can and does have polar-opposite attitudes towards Israel, so all of what you wrote applies equally to that. Yet the Guardian leads with "far right", but actively misleads on her semitism.

Sure, the far right does have polar opposite attitudes towards Israel. I don't understand what any of this has to do with the comment I was replying to that seemed to imply that there was some sort of contradiction between being far right and jewish.

I wasn't implying any contradiction. I was drawing attention to the fact that framing her as "far right" falsely ascribes her position as coming from some abstract political ideals [1], when it is nothing more than in-group/out-group distinction.

[1] By most measures, Palestine is more "right-wing" than Israel.

Those two attributes are not contradictory.

I don't see how Jewish ancestry has any actual relevance, especially given the "proud islamophobe" quote.

No matter how much overlap there is between Jews and Zionists, it is one thing to criticize someone for their position on something and a whole different thing to criticize them for their ethnicity. That "whole different thing" is prejudice, which helps nobody here.

I'm not "criticizing her for her ethnicity", I'm noting that her ethnicity is more likely to be what's driving her in this case. What the Guardian is doing is blaming a Jewish ethno-centric position instead on the vaguely-defined "far-right".

Surely Jews can have differing beliefs?

Every fact about Laura loomer could be wrong, doesn't change the cruelty of the policy change.

The VERY FIRST SENTENCE of your wikipedia link says: "Laura Elizabeth Loomer (born May 21, 1993) is an American FAR-RIGHT political activist, conspiracy theorist,[b] and internet personality." (caps added for emphasis)

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