Comment by jmyeet | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jmyeet | Hacker News Reader

A lot of Europeans like to (with good cause) laugh at the rapid decline of the US and the rise of fascism, of which they are objectively correct.

But there is one person in the UK who is almost singlehandedly responsible for the now near-inevitable rise in fascism in the UK and that's Keir Starmer.

Keir Starmer rose to power because Brexit split Labor and Jeremy Corbyn failed to have a good position on Brexit, which opened the door to antisemitic slander against Corbyn (who, as an aside, is Jewish). Starmer's Labor got fewer votes than in either of the 2 previous elections. All that happened was the Conservative vote got split by Reform, which made it an accidental Labor landslide that won't be repeated.

Starmer has done nothing to address the cost of living crisis. All he's done is ensure a post-politics career by being Israel's #1 defender and supporter as well as criminalize free speech and protest (as "terrorism") because somebody threw paint on a plane.

So yeah, Britian getting in bed with one of the most evil companies on Earth [1][2] is the least surprising thing I've read all week.

[1]: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

[2]: https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticia...

Jeremy Corbyn isn't Jewish in any straightforward sense. He's said that he has some distant Jewish ancestry:

https://www.thejc.com/news/jeremy-corbyn-my-jewish-ancestry-...

It's not my job to decide who's Jewish or not, but I think it's inaccurate to just describe him as 'Jewish' without qualification.

That's fair but it's also kind of the point.

There's an awful lot of people declaring themselves and others to be ethnically Jewish or not Jewish when it suits them or suits some political goal. Russian is the third most common spoken language in Israel for a reason: to change demographics from the refuseniks, many of whom were ethnically and religiously Jewish but many who were not.

The character assassination on Corbyn who, in the very least, has Jewish ancestry, was disgusting regardless.

>There's an awful lot of people declaring themselves and others to be ethnically Jewish or not Jewish when it suits them or suits some political goal.

Ironically that's exactly what you're doing here (i.e. making the misleading claim that Corbyn is Jewish in an attempt to defuse allegations of antisemitism against him).

Jeremy Corbin is as Jewish as Elizabeth Warren is Native American

And besides, not sure what is the point of putting this reference in, as he should be judged by his actions, not his ancestors.

Not too different than justifying many of Clarence Thomas’s decisions by saying, by the way, he is black

UK had a really good shot at defying fascism if Labour didn't have these right wing group of people who are afraid to even look like left. Corbyn was really really close and the result could have been a UK without a cost of living problem. Alas..

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