What “community standards” did this comment breach? #20

Read on The Canary – letter from 200 Jewish women that the editor refused to publish

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/03/16/the-guardian-refused-to-publish-this-scathing-letter-from-over-200-jewish-women-its-obvious-why/comment-page-1/#comment-2885

Not all British minds have turned to mush in quite the same way the Guardian has.

Stephen Law (in additions to Kit’s recent assessment) makes some great points. https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-short-intro-24853919

Law asks ‘What’s the evidence supporting the allegation that Labour has an anti-semitism problem?’ He goes on to say ‘For the most part it consists of a few hundred complaints to the Labour Party, out of well over half a million members. That’s a small fraction of 1% of the membership. And then there are various other alleged cases of left anti-semitism that have been featured very heavily in the media. That’s it. That’s pretty much all the evidence. But of course this is, again, entirely anecdotal, cherry-picked evidence.’

Law adds ‘This is not to say that there is no antisemitism in Labour – obviously there is. But the suggestion that the Left is riddled with anti-semitism is clearly entirely unjustified. Indeed, drawing that conclusion on the basis of that sort of evidence is a classic example of confirmation bias. Actually there is plenty of much better quality evidence concerning levels anti-semitism on the Left. However, all this evidence FLATLY CONTRADICTs the claim that there’s more anti-semitism in Labour or on the Left than there is elsewhere.

For example:
Jewish Policy Research – a Jewish think-tank – conducted an extensive survey looking into anti-semitism, including on the left (2017). They concluded, and I quote, ‘antisemitism is no more prevalent on the left than in the general population’. That’s a Jewish think-tank’s conclusion.

A Cross-Party Home Affairs Select Committee was tasked with looking into levels of anti-semitism in the UK (2017). It concluded, and I quote, ‘…there exists no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party.’

There is, further, yougov data on antisemitic attitudes that indicates antisemitic attitudes have actually *reduced* in Labour under Corbyn (2018).

The Chakrabarti inquiry looked into the accusations of significant antisemitism in Labour and found no significant problem.

In 2016, Channel 4 Dispatches programme did a 6 month undercover investigation of Momentum, looking for dirt, including anti-semitism. They found none at all. After six months of undercover investigation.

So, so far as I can see, all the available hard evidence not only fails to support the allegation that Labour has an anti-semitism problem – it directly contradicts that allegation.

Law concludes, ‘Those who do fire off accusations cavalierly, without taking care with the evidence are;
(i) are disrespecting the memory of the millions who were slaughtered by real antisemitism during the Holocaust,
(ii) drawing our attention away from the real anti-semites in our ranks,
(iii) crying wolf: making it more likely that genuine reports of a/s will not be believed.

These are what as known as facts and since facts, especially when placed in the wrong hands are like kryptonite for Guardian dissemblers- the only way to deal with them is by pretending they don’t exist, or censoring them.

Olivesnightie presented unpalatable facts about Hodge and nowadays the Guardian doesn’t do reason or balance so as per usual resorted to their phony comments policy to subvert reality – absolutely pathetic when you think about it.

They should change the name to CiA: Comment is Anti-Semitic.

The labour anti semitism charade is a total psyop backed by UK and Israel and possibly USA. All major media and ‘think thank’ groups are part of this cash-funded set up. Few ‘journos’ can earn a living without it and so go along with it. It’s cold on the outside you know…

I made a similar comment to the OP’s and it was blocked by CiF. They don’t explain what their stylebook says on their “position” but we can guess from the above pattern what it is. At least Readers’ Ombudsman Mr Pritchard (?) was willing to be challenged on these issues but no more. I’d say be careful about praising Oliver Twist and Dickens’ portrayal of the underworld created by grasping capitalism- if The G’s attitude to the Monopoly painting is anything to go by, soon it too will be regarded as antisemitic and then everyone will be damned.

The Guardian is corrupt MSM in operation. Don’t even bother to reply to any comments on its website. Don’t even bother to read its website.

In his March 5 Guardian article ‘Science never quite clicked for me at school. Then I discovered science YouTube’, Tom Hawking denigrates 9/11 truthers as a ‘lunatic fringe’. My comment suggesting he acquaint himself with the University of Alaska’s 3-year study into the collapse of WTC Building 7 was ‘disappeared’ without a trace. Yet another example of the Guardian’s role as propaganda mouthpiece for the Neocons.

I’d always been convinced, completely and utterly evidence free, that the Guardian regime employ their moderators from the rather large pot of unhinged readers at the Jewish Chronicle. (a right wing, Zionist enterprise by any measure). Added to that, I’d never seen an advert for a Guardian regime advert.

But then, all was revealed. Just take a look at this: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/18/welcome-to-the-worst-job-in-the-world-my-life-as-a-guardian-moderator

To summarise Chomsky, you wouldn’t sit there deleting shite.if you believed anything else. And so we beget thus: comment is free but facts are sacred. Orwell should have written that…