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Israel/Palestine

LeftishBrit

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2. What Corbyn actually said...

Reply to ericson00 (Original post)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 01:42 AM

Jul 2016

was:

"Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations."

This was not well expressed, but it is not what the article is implying! What he is comparing is acts of bigotry in blaming people in one country for what a government or organization of similar religion/ethnicity has done somewhere else. He was not saying that the governments or organizations are necessarily similar. And he meant any Islamic state or organization; not ISIS.

By the way, 59% of British Jews voted against Brexit.

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