If Carlsberg did blogs…Why you should put Richard Millett’s blog on
your personal list
by Adam Levick
Per Brian Goldfarb at Simply Jews
[You should put Richard Millett's blog on your personal list] mainly
because he constantly risks, if not life, then certainly limb in
bringing both pictures and videos of really not very nice anti-Israelis
to his website. Quite often, he is physically threatened for
filming/snapping anti-Israelis and has actually been physically attacked
on occasion, although fortunately not seriously hurt and his assailant
was arrested.
This posting is about the very unlovely Lady Jenny Tonge (the one who
can't seem to distinguish between antisemitism and anti-Israelism [tho'
I find it difficult to distinguish the two myself, but for very
different reasons, of course]), at a meeting in the House of Commons.
The title of the article says it all:
"Jenny Tonge rants about the Holocaust and idolises Ismail Haniyeh".
She is one of the original users of the Livingstone Formulation. For
those who don't know of this, it's what happens when someone criticises
Israel unfairly, without supporting evidence, and is called on the lack
of evidence, their response is on the lines of "Whenever I criticise
Israel, I'm accused of being antisemitic", when no-one, other than them,
has mentioned the "a" word. Not surprisingly, it's named after the late
and unlamented Mayor of London. In the second video clip in this
article, Jonathan Hoffman calls Tonge on this very matter, and she fails
to provide an example of this happening to her or anyone else.
For a fuller version and discussion of the term, you need to go to the
Enagage website and put "Livingstone Formulation" into their own search
facility and see what comes up.
Note that the fourth illustration down the article features the equally
unlovely Gerald Kaufmann.
Most of Richard Millet's postings are about the anti-Israel, pro BDS
crowd, by the way, but the two immediately previous articles on his blog
are especially worth reading.
The first article, on Tonge, is here.
Indeed, Millett's post are required reading for those of us troubled by
antisemitism and anti-Zionism in the UK, and we are proud that he often
allows his personal encounters with such malign forces (often directly
from the belly of the beast) to grace our pages.
In praise of Richard Millett!
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