Brexit Party 'Fastest growing Political Force'

springtide

Instead of Godwin's law maybe this is Corbwin's law?

springtide

It took me 10 seconds to find a number of articles that that the Guardian is referencing.

Google:  "Board of Deputies of British Jews nigel farage"

Here is one link..
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/nigel-farage-urged-to-apologise-for-jewish-lobby-remark/

weaviemx5

The first paragraph states;

"Nigel Farage is facing strong criticism from Jewish organisations and a series of other groups after it emerged he repeatedly took part in interviews with a far-right US talkshow host, during which the Brexit party leader openly discussed conspiracy theories, some of which have been linked to anti-Semitism."

Further down the article;

"In his various appearances on Jones’s show, Farage discussed themes commonly associated with an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers are behind a plot to replace nation states with a global government.

In the six identified interviews, which date from 2009 to last year, Farage, whose Brexit party is leading polls for the upcoming European elections, repeatedly uses words and phrases such as “globalists” and “new world order”, which regularly feature in antisemitic ideas"

I'm not really sure how the headline is misleading, when it's further explained in the article?

Toko Black

Our education system is one of the best funded in the world.

And the NHS is about to start the biggest sustained funding increase in its history.

#despitebrexit

Toko Black

He's said and done quite a lot of things and different occasions that leave a rather distasteful trail.

Especially when courting the US, he supported and backed an alleged child sex offender and racist for senator.
He supported Marine Le Pen of the French National Front.

... and he supports hand guns to be legal in the UK.

weaviemx5

#whyareteachershavingtobypensandpaperforkids

Education funding has been cut in real terms by 17%

justincase

It's misleading because it ignores what he actually said.

In relation to new world order he specifically mentioned the left and Christians.

Unless I've missed something, Jews are not Christians, and the Government in israel is right wing. So how does what he said apply to Jews?

weaviemx5

According to the article at least, it appears that the Board of Deputies of British Jews are unhappy enough with his choice of wording;

"A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews said: “It is vital that our politicians distance themselves from conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists, including those who trade in antisemitic tropes. We would call on Nigel Farage to repudiate these ideas and to commit not to dignify oddball nasties like Alex Jones with his presence again.”"

In a double whammy, the Muslim Council of Britain also take issue with his links to Jones.  Maybe Farage is just trying to offend everyone?

"A spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said Farage’s close links with Jones and Infowars “demonstrates a serious lack of judgment by Mr Farage and a willingness to tolerate Islamophobia”."

justincase

So his point of the Jewish lobby being powerful and influential in the US is anti semetic then is it...He also pointed out there were other lobby groups of considerable power and influence..
Because a jewish organisation doesn't like what was said ( notice they didn't deny what farage said)doesn't make it anti semetic imho...
Your link was to an article Oct 17 ,hardly recent or relevant...Then i suppose because he has started  a new party it's time for the media to get back on the offensive



So any reference to globalists or a new world order are anti semetic ..Tony Blair,George bush etc have all made reference to it are they anti semites too..
Any reference to a theme ( allegedly)commonly, later changed to regularly then some of which has links  with anti semetism  automatically labels someone an anti semite and so should have anti semetic in the headline should it or is it just attention grabbing..

Cliff

Just to use the W.W.C.D. card;

Considering the UK Media has spent the last 12-18 months 'unearthing' anything even remotely referencing Jews/Israel over the last 30 years to throw at Corbyn and the Labour anti-Semite news, is it really surprising that someone mentioning "New World Order", "Globalism" and accusations that Jews overly-influence US politics/finances is being reported as anti-Semitic?

It's more disappointing that people here are defending one person using those tropes but decrying another.