The Weaponisation of Labour Antisemitism | David Graeber
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- “It’s a deep profound insult to the humanistic spirit which is at the core of Judaism"
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The 1% tried to smear Bernie with the self-hate game. Thank God it didn't stick.
Yeah the anti-semitism accusations really helped to cripple the Labour Party. I wonder how will Keir Starmer will handle this? Found a pretty good analysis of what Keir Starmer needs to do to revive the Labour Party in Britain: th-cam.com/video/2ggqLCyF8is/w-d-xo.html
There is nothing new or futuristic here; just the same worn out clapped out clichés and selective deafness and blindness. The real future would be hacks that expose and report of the crime no matter what party was doing it. You don't do that, hence Corbyn would have to be a tory before you wrote about his racism. DDN just another boring band of bigots.
Love the way you give us a "Highlighted reply" and all it is is a thick moronic childish insult. Not one intelligent point, no reasoned argument, just infantile drivel. I really must be getting to you; underlining to you how thick and moronic you are. You haven't a thing to offer in intelligent response. "Future of journalism" Childish little tantrums when your schoolboy drivel is (painfully easily) pulled apart. Try reading some books.
Rest In Peace
I'm Jewish and I totally agree ... what is wrong with these people.
A useful (and moderate) analysis. One of the most depressing aspects of the Labour antisemitism saga has been the absence of any sort of balanced discussion on the BBC and in the Guardian. Instead both routinely take the antisemitism story as proven, offering no voice to its critics while giving unchallenged space to Corbyn-haters.
The last straw for me was Keir Starmer’s decision to feature ‘Labour antisemitism’ so prominently in his victory speech. He’ll find that the lobby doesn’t believe in compromise and will accept nothing less than a party purged of all Palestinian sympathisers.
Starmer may be willing to acquiesce, at that.
Imagine if the BBC platformed Graeber, Chomsky and Finkelstein as often as bad faith anti-semitism accusers. Guess we need to find a way around that, somehow.
Err, you do know that Lisa Nandy is the chair of Labour Friends of Palestine? No, you're just chucking around sectarian bullshit that drives away good comrades who don't have the exact same ideology as you.
Modern Socialist : Yes I knew about Nandy but I am not responsible for her contradictory positions. She claims to support Palestinians but at the same time backs the IHRA definition, the majority of examples of which are not about prejudice against Jews but about defending Israel from criticism. She also supports the ‘ten pledges’ demanded of Labour which bind the Party to one (right wing and ultra-Zionist) source of guidance about antisemitism, Israel and just about anything else.....
@@brianmcdevitt8239 And when Corbyn entered Parliament he swore an oath to be loyal to the Queen. It's just a bunch of BS that's just makes idiots feel good. What's important is actions not some words in an irrelevant document.
Modern Socialist poor beleaguered Palestine could do without friends like Nandy.
So sad that such an articulate and nuanced intellectual like David Graeber is no longer with us, but at least his work will be.
*Bullshit Jobs* is an amazing book and absolutely worth a read.
Who else is here after Corbyn’s suspension?
Here, the labour party really has gone downhill. It has turned back into a neoliberal party.
@@alistairstanbridge7461 agreed, kier starmer reeks of blair and i mean that in the worst way possible
NOT ANYMORE
So sad that Corbyn is out now, and the anti semitism accusations certainly played a big part in that.
Well said that man
I love this, David Graeber has expressed everything I have been feeling, but as a non Jewish person not equipped with the facts I did not feel qualified to say my self.
aha....so you need to be jewish to see anti-semitism ?
bart versteege, no, that’s clearly not what she is saying
@@nottopcat5956 she implies it
@@bartversteege2910 I think you need to work on your comprehension. Here is a link to some work sheets. m.k5learning.com/reading-comprehension-worksheets
@@MatthewBrown-bf1qn is that islamic ?
RIP David, you will be hugely missed, a flowerof common sense in a field of aggressive bindweed
What did he die of?
Agreed. A great man, sadly missed.
@@Kiyarose3999 necrosis of the pancreas potentially a side effect of coronavirus.
This is absolutely totally spot on.
Absolutely spot on.
I wish Corbyn had defended himself as eloquently as you did.
I always wondered what narrative would have developed if these bad faith actors had been called out on their bullshit
He did defend himself, he was however given no air time by mainstream media whilst doing so. Go figure...
@@mercia1198 I get your point.
Sometimes I wish he'd just let rip.
He just seemed too nice.
That's the unfairness of politics.
The shitebags play dirty and get what they want
@@roberttelford745 From unfairness to outright corruption by both politicians and media moguls.
@@roberttelford745 You nailed it right there, I truely believe if you're not a scumbag, you won't get anywhere. I suppose Corbyn had no dirt on him, so the powers that be could not manipulate him.
Beautifully articulated - thank you
Thank you for being bold enough to put forward such an articulate and insightful rebuff
Insightful and articulate only if you are an inarticulate moron that swallows this drivel like a good little momentum sheep.
@@infrasleep Elaborate on how he's wrong?
@@anthonytom-duyquang3558 He wont. Han er trold.
@@anthonytom-duyquang3558 Firstly the EHRC report was DAMNING. And the denials and conspiracy theories spouted by the left are EXACTLY the same as the BNP used after their own damning EHRC report, Downloading and sharing anti semetic images from the far right Aryan Nation website , threatening MP's and Jewish members with death threats .terms such as Zionist scum/Hitler is right are pure undiluted racism that a large hard core of the left/momentum happily took part in (and it was Momentum who told their sheep to claim it was 0.4% which they happily did with further death threats to Zionist scum. The fact that searchlight and other organisations who monitor the far right said about the race hate of Corbyn's labour that "The far right couldn't teach them a damn thing" sums it up. To pathetically say antisemitism is being "Weaponised" is moronic, If any political fanatics weaponize issues it is 100% the left who have weaponised everything from Islamophobia to climate change to covid deaths,. The left is increasingly irrelevant to issues affecting the working classes as it is over run with public school/sheltered middle classes that have no idea of working class aspirations and sensibilities , If they al would just bugger off (and take Corbyn with them) and form their own party Labour could go back to key consensus issues that have the support and interests of the working classes-they wouldn't do the slightest damage to Labour as they wouldn't poll more than 200 votes in any constituency whereas they make Labour totally unelectable with their odious usurping of the party (doing their born Tory duty of winning votes for no one bar the Tory Party of their birth right) At the moment we have a vile bigoted intolerant right and an equally vile bigoted intolerant left that this fool chooses to support with a weak and feeble diatribe. You are either against6 racism 100% or you are not and like the far right the far left has proved beyond doubt it is not. Anti semitism for them is "Cool racism". They are blood brothers only to the BNP and Aryan Nation, Why support that ?
What an absolute breath of fresh air. Thank you.
I love Jeremy Corbyn 👍🏼
This man had true Guts !!
Attilla The Brit How very articulate
@Attilla The Brit did you watch the video?
He had more true guts than he got in votes. That’s true.
@Attilla The Brit pay more attention then
Attilla The Brit you sound like you’re straight from the daily mail
As an anti-poverty campaigner, I had been pulling my hair out with frustration at the Labour Party who instead of trying to save the lives of the working class poor; the sick; the disabled, and even the dying; Instead tried to save their own Tory Blair political careers by pouring all their energy along with the right-wing press to demonise Jeremy Corbyn by the Weaponisation of their Labour Antisemitism. R.I.P David, you have brought such peace to me and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Cathy McCormack
xxx
David every single word you say is true. You deserve a medal. Justice is all we ask. Well done
I still can't believe we lost this brilliant human being.
Where was this a year ago ?!
During summer of 2019 I tried continually to get something like this out in any mainstream news source. All refused. The only people who'd touch me was Open Democracy and even that after weeks of negotiation.
Similarly, the US media has been handily manufacturing consent for Joe Biden, going so far as to completely stonewall a rape allegation against him. Getting round this is going to be tricky, to put it mildly.
Loads of people refuting the bogus claims of AS. The media just didn't let you hear them
@@davidgraeber5046 Thank you for speaking the truth. You have no idea how important it is that intellectuals like you exist and speak up !
Progressive human thought processes have always been persecuted because the ruling order don’t like the paradigm changing
likklej8 A lot of progressivist thought gets persecuted because it’s fucking stupid.
And, the working class hates Corbyns labour because he's a vile POS.
Lots of dynamics at play I suppose
William H it’s probably brainwashing or a malign program they’ve been fed
William H Most remaining labour supporters are vile snobs who Never liked the working class.
likklej8 Its probably Brainwashing that you’ve been fed because YOU are not educated enough to know what you voted for.
God I miss David.
it was so obvious what they were doing absolutely disgraceful
Someone show this to James O’Brien.
JOB is another puppet of the libertarian press.
Thunderwolf666 oh but don’t you know, he couldn’t bring himself to vote for corbyn because he had ‘serious concerns’ about anti semitism in the Labour Party.
Of course, we see now in America what happens when the left doesn’t back the centre ‘Bernie or bust is narcissistic, childish and it’s helping the right wing get into power’
But when centrists help the right wing into power, it’s not their narcissism, childishness or even ideological alignment with the right....it’s in fact the fault of the left for not being good enough to vote for.
This is why we can’t stop talking about this. I’m sick of guardian types telling me ‘stop taking about the press, it’s boring’
It was the deciding factor last election, as it was in the US primary that just happened. These are the same people who completely bought into the anti semitism scandal and tried to engage with it in good faith.
@@CarlyonProduction I completely agree with you. I highly doubt that JOB didn't vote labour because of concerns over anti-semitism, far more likely his concerns were over the fact that Labour was no longer the Blairite neoliberal centrist party his paymasters were comfortable with.
JOB has bills to pay like the rest of them. I hope they are happy with their new furra. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@jenniferanderson9060 you mean 'führer' I assume.
More people should hear this argument. People need to understand they may have elected an antisemitic prime minister.
Love David Graeber and here he is with another perfect analysis
You know that bit in I'm Alan Partridge where he organises a James Bond marathon but his VHS player breaks so he starts in desperation to describe the bond films scene by scene? Boris Johnson's novel reads like that monologue.
What a wonderful human being, a calm and informative exposition of a solid humanitarian take. What a shame he has passed!
Thank you so much! This kind of rhetoric has been long missed! Much love 🍀✨🦋
Makes me tearful.
This guy is so smart and erudite - it has been a pleasure listening to him.
One of the best commentary on Media’s false AS attack on Corbyn - short sweet and to the point
I now know you can miss someone you have never met in person. Rest in power David.
That was one of the best videos that I have seen on this subject. It was also disturbing. The thing that really annoys me is the number of gullible people who actually believe the racial hatred that spew out from some sources.
I have worked and lived in the UK, Muslim Middle East, and North America. I have worked with Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, you name it, as well as atheists. There's very little difference between any of them. Just culture and language. Everyone has a right to follow their own path as long as it doesn't impact harshly on others. It's very easy to make small allowances to allow others enjoy their own culture. It actually enriches our society.
I could use history to show that every religion is evil using anecdotal evidence. My own personal anecdotal evidence shows that almost everyone really wants the same thing. Food, warmth, a roof, a few luxuries, and security to live a peaceful life. I say "almost" because of the greed of a few who want it all.
I enjoyed my time in the Middle East. I fail to understand why some people seem to feel that other cultures are a threat to them. It always interested my inquisitive nature.
I wish I’d discovered this guy’s work while he was still alive. :(
People have very little political consciousness as a whole.
Thank you David. The situation is a disgrace. Labour is also a disgrace. You have nailed it.
This is the first time I have listened to video and I bow to this man's great wisdom. Rest in peace David Graeber.
Precisely my views👍
The old adage 'throw enough mud and some of it will stick'.
So sad that he is gone - thanks to certain outlets he is still with us. 💛
Fantastic, waiting to hear more from David
I would just like to know if it's OK to condemn Israel for what they've done to the Palistinians & continue to do. Is that racist, it seems Israel plays the racist card so they don't have to answer to the crimes they've committed against Palistine
BDS✊
Spot on
Thank you so much for making this point, and amazing that you got someone as articulate and intelligent as Graeber to speak. When I saw his name in the title I knew this would be worth a watch.
My introduction to both David Graeber and DDN.
A pleasant surprise. 🙂
Brilliant counter statement, "Institutionalized anti socialism" Chris Marsden
This is so valuable, thank you! Keep up the fight.
And you're missed very much, David!
Using antisemitism card for political purposes is preposterous!
Boris is a nightmare.
Well said David 😊 The truth will only ever get in the way if it suits the agenda of those who would oppose those genuine believers in the possibility of a democracic socialist future, so not particularly common! 🙄 #DDN 💕
his commentaries regain importance every few years
Well, I think this very well compiled digital article. Found it insightful and beautifully articulate. However, feels possibly 6 months too late.
I did a shorter one during the campaign that got almost a million views but was never mentioned by any mainstream media source
@@davidgraeber5046 thank you for messaging me back, I appreciate you taking the time. Well I would of loved to of seen it at the time, and would of forwarded to as many people as possible. Again I would like to reiterate that the piece here for DDN is superb. Hopefully the platform will grow. Then insightful, informative people like your self are heard, over the soundbite bullshit we get spoon fed currently.
Have a great weekend and stay safe 🙏
@@chrishampton2565 you simply have no idea how hard it is to get "insightful, informative" positions like this in the news. I spent most of the summer of 2019 trying to get anyone in the British press to run a story like this. Hit a total brick wall. So I eventually got it in Open Democracy only after some negotiation. Totally ignore in the press. Then when we put out the video, and it got a million views and no one was interested in interviewing me.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-my-life-im-frightened-be-jewish/
@@davidgraeber5046 thanks for the link, I'll check it out. And thank you for continuing the fight. Hopefully, the collective we, can actually get the truth out.
@@davidgraeber5046 I've read the article you linked. I think the problem may well be that it was too honest and sincere. It wasn't sensationalist for the hacks we have here in the printed press. I imagine that you frightened them to despair, with the quality of your debate.
To use something as serious as antisemitism to silence people who wanted to create a better Britain is very sad. When antisemitism and islamaphobia is rife in the Tory Party it’s even more heartbreaking.
What a shit year
Graber here is wrong, and cannot commit to a critique of settler coloniality. His failure to do so is one which any critical academic project must reckon with immediately.
i love this channel and all its content.
The behaviour of various Labour MPs in false accusations of anti-semitism. If they are reading this know who they are talking about.
Everything you said is true but as a non Jew I didn't feel I had the right to say it. We missed the chance of having a good man who would work for everyone, to bring about a flattening to the financial discrepancies between rich and poor. Purely on the economic side, its us poorer people that purchase not stash our money in offshore accounts, it's the riffraff that will provide local economic stimulus. Well that's my two halfpenny worth.
It's a shame more of us wern't saying this at the time, how inadequate "we can walk and chew gum" seems now!
Thank you for posting this. Keep safe.
I'm still on the fence for this channel but I appreciate you're uploads.
This is so relevant now. We lost a treasure when we lost this man.
Rest In Power David
Just subscribed. Quite magnificent explanation. Weoponising Judaism is a very dangerous game. Thanks for posting
Got a book written by Graeber by an intellectual who later on accused my spouse to advertise antisemitism. She is a university professor for social work and gave a safe space to speak for Palestinians at a symposium she organised (a jewish group was also invited but denied participation when they realised that Palestinians were also allowed to speak!). The term antisemitism is high jacked here in Germany by those who ignore the extrem Israelian political right wingers. These people are extreme in their ideas of self defense in a way that puts them very close to those that initiated the Shoa by their actions. Not a true Scotsman arguments against Jewish Israelian leftists, are common here. A war about the highness of definition of terms is ongoing now. It's quite interesting that non-white South Africans look at the middle east and speak clearly of Apartheid (at least) in the occupied areas, which causes an outburst of resistance here amongst intellectuals claiming that this is untrue. They deny the real experts concerning Apartheid to define it when they see it. Dark days are ahead!
such a breath of fresh air
Oh David... we miss you so much!
at last someone speaks the truth, well done
If you are a socialist and you cannot counter slander. Or indeed, talk with people you despise. You are not really socialist...
This is perfect. Have a comment and a like. A refreshing no BS humanist like so many of us x
i miss him already
Thank you, spot on!
Thank you for deconstructing this so clearly; it is really helpful for people like me in another country to better understand what is really going on.
Will subtitles be available in Spanish.
David, Thank you for your comments.
Just learned today about his death :(
Noam Chomsky, Hanna Arendt, Norman Finkelstein…
Zoom out. Big picture -
No one believed the accusations anyway. The more it was discussed, the more insular an echo chamber the normies thought of the people arguing about it. Normal voters just thought of the accusations as 'pc gone mad'.
The way to deal it, was to dismiss it with contempt. Ok boomer would've done fine.
Teresa may famously called out corbyn for anti semiticism whilst unveiling a statue of Nancy Astor !!!
Excellent!
Wow!
I miss you David
Thank you. I think you nailed it when you describe the provenance of Zionism, that was the crack the 'Labour is Anti -Semite' pitch forker carriers used. The mistake of Labour MP's accused of anti-Semitism, who rightly called out the appalling behaviour of Netanyahu and his party, was to use the word Zionism without understanding the meaning it carried for older members of British Jews leading the charge at Labour. A better approach would have been to drop the use of the label Zionism and focus on Netanyahu and his party and their abuse of the land and people of Palestine.
Thankyou for this content
Aren't the crimes against humanity something that we should be doing something about? Wouldn't it change the way we talk about austerity in Europe and austerity in the U.S. if we were open to the idea of human rights in Palestine? It's like one of those things that is a huge elephant in the room but cannot be spoken of in an open way. Maybe the strategy of false accusations of antisemitism is that if you are on the left it is very damaging to your support regardless of it's validity and if you spend effort defending yourself against such a slander it will continue to cost you because of the sensitivity of the left. And this is coming from the same party??? I would say not the same party.
thank you
followed
Thank you thank you thank you David
Spot on.
LISTEN to this Guy! He actually talks sense.
Such a loss to us all
I first heard the term "self-hating Jew" in 2002, in connection with the late journalist Robert Fisk. It was on a website that wouldn't use it against Fisk (it might even have been in an article by Fisk, himself). It mentioned that Fisk had been tarred with the slur. Curious as to the meaning of the strange new (to me) term I checked the link, which brought up a creepy website that reminds me of some undesired links that came up when I looked to find a rendition of the song "Lili Marlene". The website had a long list of well-known people whom the perpetrators of the site thought belonged in the category. As I recall, the list included many who would be on my list of most admired (were I to make a list).
Do you notice that, with Corbyn's resignation and the election of Keir Starmer, the Labour anti-semitism issue has vapourised? The MSM has spectacularly lost interest.
I can think of something else like this that has happened. When Ukraine was part of the USSR if a UK newspaper had anything in its travel pages about Kiev (as Kyiv was then called) it was "de rigueur" to include a description of the Babi Yar Massacre (in which the invading Nazis killed almost all of the Jews whom they could find in Kiev), ending with the observation that the few survivors of the massacre had heard some of the perpetrators speaking fluent Ukrainian as well as German. Now that "the west" is cultivating Ukraine the UK media never mention the Babi Yar Massacre at all; it is as if they now deny that it took place.
@@cedriclynch Wonderful how Britain, the USA and Israel supported the Nazi coup in Ukraine.
How truly disappointing that such a smart guy would collapse this issue into such an intellectually bereft bipolar choice when it demands a MUCH richer dive that I would expect someone like Graeber MORE than most to get and to engage with. It's tragically revealing.
What was the name 8:16 into the video?
Thank you. Nothing generates anti semitism more than those who ally themselves with those who hate others on the grounds of racial difference.
DAVID GRAEBER was a founding member of the Institute for Experimental Arts He did a lecture with the title: How social and economic structure influences the Art World in the Financial Consequences - International MultiMedia Poetry Festival organized by the Institute for Experimental Arts supported by LSE Department of Anthropology.
Influential anthropologist David Graeber, known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years speaks about the correlation between the cultural sphere and society. The intellectuals and the artists create an imaginary way to criticize the economic system in any era. Art can overcome hegemonic frameworks and acknowledge other possible worlds, offer us the opportunity to understand better the marginalized social entities. Social exclusion is the process in which individuals or people are systematically blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g., housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process). As the economic crises go deeper in time more people face the effects of exclusion. Art and social sciences can give voice to the voiceless. Especially young social aware poets can give us a clear view of the real social effect of the financial consequences. - David Graeber
You can watch the Lecture here: th-cam.com/video/WCF-8OQj0RE/w-d-xo.html
Each people have the rulers they deserve. The UK didn't deserve Corbin.
Never have I ever heard such a balanced view... ever
7:30 the point made here has been a source of frustration for me because for anyone that scratches the surface of this subject, even a little, will see the differences between these the 3 things quite plainly.
Yes !
THIS VIDEO NEEDS A *VENN DIAGRAM* ON SCREEN THROUGHOUT
WITH THE 3 INTERSECTING ANTI-ISMS
th-cam.com/video/H6oOj7BzciA/w-d-xo.html
SAD+Crazy stoopid that nobody at The Labour party did that from the beginning.
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Tragic waste
They mangled messaging in so many ways again and again.
Which was very worrYing in itself.
and then factor in WEAPONiZED MSM and tORY fueled dvide & conquer IDeOCRACY
Corbyn's Brexit stance {LACK OF} and SERIOUS bs was insane and aweful.
train wreck
party politics is deadly everytime everywhere
Great Book
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=148
Thanks for this
Goodness I LOVE David Graeber!