On 30th October the Daily Telegraph posted an outrageous article from columnist Angela Epstein. Her article is here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/10/29/keir-starmer-must-go-axe-corbyn-labour-anti-semitism-shame/
In her reaction to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s report on anti-semitism in the Labour Party when led by Jeremy Corbyn, she demanded that the Labour Party revise its rules so as to prevent “anti-semites” from being admitted into its membership, let alone stand as its election candidates.
More than that, she suggested that British electoral law be revised to prohibit anybody deemed to be an “anti-semite” from being nominated in elections and that all “anti-semites” holding elected office be evicted from their posts.
After making such un-British and undemocratic demands, this Jewess had the impudence to round-off her tirade by asserting that “… as Jews, we have a cultural disposition to forgive…”.
I felt compelled to try and balance the outpouring of philo-semitic commentary provided by Epstein and other members of the Telegraph’s monstrous regiment of Jewish harpies, so I submitted the following short letter for publication to its editor.
Needless to say, it wasn’t published.
Martin Webster
From: Martin Webster
Date: Friday, 30 October 2020 at 19:24
To: The Editor – Daily Telegraph
Subject: Angela Epstein: ‘Keir Starmer must go further to axe Corbyn
from Labour over anti-Semitism shame’ | D.Telegraph | 30/10/20
Sir:
Is Angela Epstein proposing in ‘Keir Starmer must go further to axe
Corbyn from Labour over anti-Semitism shame’ (Daily Telegraph, 30th
October) that electoral law be changed to make it illegal for anybody
who is — or who Jewish organisations consider to be — anti-Jewish, be
prohibited from standing in elections, or if holding elected office,
evicted from their post?
Isn’t it the purpose of democracy to allow the electorate to determine
who should become MPs, local councillors and so forth? Who does Ms
Epstein think should ‘vet’ the validity election nomination papers under
her proposals: municipal Returning Officers (as at present) or, say,
the Board of Deputies of British Jews, or the Jewish Leadership Council,
or the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism — or perhaps all three?
Jewish exultation over the defeat of the former Labour Party leader
Jeremy Corbyn is to be expected, but Ms Epstein’s assertion “… as Jews,
we have a cultural disposition to forgive…” is a trifle exaggerated. Has
she never during annual Purim festivities eaten ‘hamentashen’ (Haman’s
ears)? These are triangular pastries smothered with red jam, which
commemorate the dismemberment of one of the Persian empire’s leaders,
Haman, along with 75,000 of his followers, in the 4th century BC.
Yours faithfully,
Martin Webster
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