The Guardian has been one of the single largest contributors to mainstreaming classic antisemitic conspiracy theories all under the guise of & #39;criticising Israel& #39;. From Blood Libel, mind control to poisonings, there& #39;s not an antisemitic trope the Guardian hasn& #39;t pushed /1 https://twitter.com/ShMMor/status/1276462429296381952">https://twitter.com/ShMMor/st...
Take Blood Libel, the myth that Jews use non-Jews& #39; blood/body parts for secret ritual. The Guardian had to row back its headline "Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs". *One* pathologist kept tissue for research similar to the Alder Hey scandal /2
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The Guardian& #39;s whole article was still framed as if the Abu Kabir institute had been primarily stealing Palestinian body parts, when in fact tissue samples had been taken across ethnic/national lines. /3 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/israeli-pathologists-harvested-organs">https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...
Yet more Blood Libel. In response to Andy Newman& #39;s prescient article about Left Antisemitism, the Guardian gave & actively *promoted* right of reply to antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Alison Weir, the letter itself riddled with antisemitic conspiracy theory. /4
The Guardian *promoted* Blood Libeller Alison Weir who calls Judaism as a "ruthless and supremacist faith", falsely says Jews are taught "all non-Jews are totally satanic creatures" and "Jewish culture is superior to all others" (full details in link) /5
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Then poisonings. The Guardian emotively reporting spraying land on the Israeli border as "destroying livelihoods". Mentioning only ever in passing incendiary devices from Gaza aimed at kids, sometimes w/ poison that have destroyed 000s of acres of land /6 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/19/israeli-spraying-of-herbicide-near-gaza-harming-palestinian-crops">https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Or the various Guardian commentators portraying Jews as innately hateful, having "slavish" control over the US or considering themselves as "chosen". So much so, its Reader& #39;s Editor Chris Elliott had to issue a statement. /7
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One might wonder what influence erstwhile Guardian longtime columnist & former Comment Editor, Seamus Milne, had over this mainstreaming of antisemitic discourse. Here seen enthusiastically replying to AS conspiracy theorist Tony Gosling (see link) /8
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Milne& #39;s father famously sacked by the Thatcher government, yet Milne clearly & specifically focusing on the role of Victor Rothschild, whose sole bidding Thatcher was supposed to have obeyed. Classic antisemitic conspiracy with an actual Rothschild! /9
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The Guardian of course has its Jewish columnists & editors (great ones @Freedland @HadleyFreeman et al). But its continual ability to wave through antisemitic tropes & discourse is malevolent. There would be no Corbyn without the Guardian, it& #39;s the home of #LabourAntisemitism /10