Accusing Jews Who Raise Antisemitism of Being Antisemitic

Example 17: Accusing Jews who raise antisemitism of being antisemitic, for spurious reasons:

The late David Graeber has put the view that exaggerating antisemitism on the left, i.e. in the Labour Party, ends up actually damaging Jewish people for three reasons: it makes them feel less secure and more worried; it allows non-Jews to paint Jews as hypersensitive; and it antagonises the left whom he contended are Jew’s strongest ally against antisemitism especially from the far-right. He also suggested that such exaggeration could, therefore, even be a form of antisemitism. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-my-life-im-frightened-be-jewish/.

This suggestion - which we would actually dispute - was irresponsibly taken up first by The Canary, and then by people such as Eddie Leonard. Here he calls John Mann, Tom Watson and Margaret Hodge, all then MPs who had become well-known for calling out antisemitism regularly, "the real anti Semites in the Labour Party". He cites the article in the Canary but offers no evidence in favour of this claim. We believe that this is a vexatious claim of antisemitism, and a crude and illogical blame reversal. It is particularly egregious to thus accuse Margaret Hodge, who is Jewish. In her case, we therefore put this forward as an example of antisemitism.

Our group has always acknowledged that antisemitism is sometimes factionally weaponised - by both right and left. However, this does not mean it is not real, or that those protesting left antisemitism are themselves antisemitic.

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