Guido Fawked - Selective Jew-Hatred

The perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog have recently been hot on the trail of anyone in the Labour Party who has made inappropriate comments about the state of Israel, its citizens, its right to exist, and Jews everywhere. No-one can doubt their commitment to root out anti-Semitism. On their watch there will be no acts of Jew-hatred going unnoticed and unpunished.

Feared, allegedly. But not fast enough with the cover-up

But, sadly, that is not universally true: after Bradford West MP Naz Shah was suspended for comments and actions from before the time she became an MP, one of which was to “like” a document called “Solution for Israel-Palestine conflict … relocate Israel into United States”, Vox Political revealed that this had originally been published by one Norman Finkelstein, a professor who specialises in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Professor Finkelstein is the son of two Holocaust survivors. The rest of his parents’ relatives did not survive. Yes, the publisher of the work that led to Naz Shah being suspended for alleged anti-Semitism is Jewish. You really couldn’t make it up.

This is how Norman Finkelstein described his history: “My late father was in Auschwitz, my late mother was in Majdenek concentration camp. Every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw ghetto uprising”.

But when it was pointed out to The Great Guido that the author of the work that had caused Naz Shah so much trouble was Jewish, there was no pause for understanding, no appreciation that the situation was not quite as clear-cut as had been made out. Instead, there was abusiveness, dismissal, and then evasion and concealment.

After the Tweeter who goes by the handle Mr Ethical asked “do you guys realise Naz Shah’s graphic was originally posted by a Jew?” the reply came back “Do you think that would make it OK? Also he’s a nutcase”.

Freely translated, that means Paul Staines, or whoever had been delegated control of the Guido Fawkes Twitter feed, had decided that Jewish opinion was only useful to him and his rabble if it met with their approval. As Professor Finkelstein’s work, which attempts to show understanding for the situation of Palestinian Arabs, is inconvenient to their attempt to undermine the Labour Party, it is dismissed.

And it gets worse: the Guido Fawkes Twitter response was soon deleted, as whoever was running the account tried to cover his tracks. But a screen shot was taken by that same Mr Ethical. So the whole world can see just how supportive The Great Guido is to those whose parents survived the tragedy that was the Shoah.

The Fawkes rabble has its own problem with selective Jew-hatred. And it’s been caught bang to rights trying to cover it up. Another fine mess, once again.