Saturday, 16 November 2019

Not another one!


Pun-inspiring Labour candidate for South Cambridge Dan Greef got the Guido Fawkes treatment yesterday after Mr Staines & Co. did some archaeological digging on Twitter and found the usual 'offensive' anti-Israel tweets which almost inevitably appear to litter Corbyn Era Labour feeds these days. Now, I think his May 2010 tweet about voting for the BNP was obviously meant as a joke and some of his tweets referencing Israel and UK parliamentary 'Friends of Israel' groups are ambiguous, and the standout one saying 'Had a great day at a concentration camp' lacks enough context to make it properly damning (if such things matter these days - as they do to me)...but there's nothing particularly ambiguous about him saying "Bloody Israel. I sometimes want to rip it all up!" or his support for then-Lib Dem MP David Ward ("Good man!") after Mr Ward marked the Holocaust by comparing the Nazi treatment of the Jews to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, or his re-tweeting of someone calling David Cameron "the finest PM Israel can buy". So is just another anti-Israel obsessive, or worse? So far there's nothing on the BBC News website about this or, according to TV Eyes, even on BBC local news (TV or radio).