1/ @jk_rowling thank you for sharing Nuddering's thread. I am a British man born in Israel, a child of one English parent and one Israeli. My grandparents migrated to the British Mandate before WWII. My Grandfather lost almost his entire family to the Nazis. Some thoughts:

2/ It's 1995. I'm in the Territorial Army. We have to fill out forms during basic training. It asks where you're born. Word spreads. Later my Corporal makes constant jokes about 'my big nose'. I'm quietly disgusted but not shocked. Racism in the British Army? It's almost SOP.

3/ Fast forward. It's 2006. Israel is at war with Hezbullah in Southern Lebanon. My cousin is killed by an RPG that incinerates his truck. There's a burial with a casket but there's no physical body to bury. Israel is traumatised by the war. Public consensus is that it has lost.

4/ Angered by its humiliation, Israel decides to punish Gazans for voting for Hamas. It does this three times: Operation Cast Lead (2008–09), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), & Operation Protective Edge (2014). Each time thousands of Gazans are killed, unable to find shelter.

5/ Each time, the media frames the narrative of each assault in terms of 'Israel's right to defend itself' and the existential threat Hamas & Iran present to Israel and Judaism. No-one mentions Palestinian right to defend themselves or the existential threat Israel poses to them.

6/ A number of Jewish academic and religious figures like @normfinkelstein condemn the wars. They are either roundly criticised or ignored. I condemn the wars anonymously on a blog, not wanting to be traduced for supporting Hamas, a body part created by Israel to split the PLO.

7/ For a non-zionist, non-religious Brit born to Jewish heritage, there's almost no mainstream media that offers a non-zionist editorial line or critique. I can read liberal zionist critiques of Israeli disproportionality in the Guardian that are always qualified by 'both sides'.

8/ It's 2015. I turn on my radio. Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour Party. At conference he mentions justice for Palestine. Recognising the State of Palestine is now official position of a major UK political party for the first time. I feel ...

9/ ... glad that a major party has finally openly supported the logical conclusion of the '2 State Solution' that the European and American political establishment have voiced their support for ever since Oslo whilst Israel has taken steps to actively preclude that outcome.

10/ It's 2016. There's a referendum on Brexit. British media is saturated with racist dog whistles by right wing Europhobes. The BBC continually platforms a man who makes the referendum about blaming the EU for immigrants. Britain votes Leave. Corbyn is blamed, not David Cameron.

11/ A year later, there's a General Election. The media mock the Conservative Prime Minister but condemn the Labour leader. He's a friend of the IRA and Hamas. He's in league with the Russians. He's an existential threat to the security of the country. Voters largely disagree.

12/ It's 2018. There's a local election. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party are accused of being antisemitic shortly after the party achieves positive results. Voters appear not to feel the party & its leadership are a threat, rather the opposite. The Govt is in continual crisis.

13/ Allegations of anti-semitism against Corbyn and Labour explode across all media ATSTA IDF murders kids @ the March of Return. Main source of accusations are MPs in Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) & a group of MPs who have already tried and failed to oust their party's leader.

13/ They are joined by three leading Jewish publications, zionist Rabbis, and even the Prime Minister of Israel. We are told 85% of British Jews think Labour is institutionally antisemitic. No other verifiable evidence is offered to support these claims. 40% will leave UK. Same.

14/ Meanwhile, those Jewish voices who are not zionist and who do not believe Corbyn or Labour are institutionally antisemitic are not proportionally platformed by media. Any attempt to ask for evidence or discuss political agency behind accusations is equated to antisemitism.

15/ Labour adopts the IHRA definition of antisemitism. It modifies some of the examples. The Home Affairs select committee did the same. Labour is accused of acting in bad faith and defending the ability to be antisemitic. Labour MPs say even adoption of IHRA makes no difference.

16/ A lifelong Labour anti-racist activist Mark Wadsworth is expelled from the party for 'bringing it into disrepute' by accusing Ruth Smeeth of briefing the media against her party. Margaret Hodge hurls abuse at Jeremy Corbyn. Hodge unrepentant but disciplinary charges dropped.

17/ At an NEC meeting on the IHRA, protestors outside shout 'fascist' and wave the Israeli flag. I'm confused. I thought this wasn't about Israel (or Palestinians). But the media tell me it is b/c if you're anti-zionist then you negate Jewish right to SD, which is antisemitic.

18/ Against the intention of the IHRA, zionist outlets like Jewish Chronicle equate Israel & Zionism w/ Judaism & Jewish identity. We're told 90% of Jews in the UK are Zionists, sans evidence. An antisemitic trope of 'Good Jew, Bad Jew' is levelled at Jews who support Corbyn.

19/ Across media 'The Jewish Community' is presented as a monolith with one opinion. It is zionist. It is anti-Corbyn, and it is anti-Labour. We are told it faces an existential threat. Corbyn is compared to an anti-immigrant neo-fascist.

18/ Concurrently, media ignores UK Muslim community representatives, including Baroness Warsi, who demand action on the open racism and islamophobia in the Conservative Party. The fmr Foreign Secretary writes an editorial mocking Muslim women. Immediately after, attacks rise.

19/ 2018 Chuka Umunna says Labour is institutionally racist, immediately contradicting 2016 Chuka Umunna. The hyperbolic row is amplified by a bankrupt corporate media requiring 'scandal' for clicks. The most incompetent British Govt in memory spends a summer free from scrutiny.

20/ And now, another 'scandal' with Mark Sewotka's comments to the TUC, accusing Israel or orchestrating a smear campaign. This can't be true surely? Oh wait, here's a video of Israeli Embassy operative Shai Masot offering LFI chair Joan Ryan £1m for 'astro-turfing'.

21/ Joan Ryan and others lose CLP votes of confidence. This is denounced as bullying and targeting Jewish MPs. None of the MPs are Jewish. A Thomas The Tank Engine card is sent to an MP with 'choo choo'. It means deselection. We're told it references the gestapo cattle trucks.

22/ There's a steady stream of anecdotal evidence of Jews suffering from anti-semitism. No-one denies that it exists in the UK and in every party. Yet John Humphreys tells the Conservative Party At Radio that "Corbyn is the problem". Data doesn't matter. Facts are flexible.