Bernard Mani, who was due to stand in Lewisham on May 7, also allegedly tore down balloons put up in solidarity with Israeli children kidnapped by Hamas

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    The greens need to get a spine, or they’re going to fall for the same antisemitism smear campaign that got Corbyn.

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      Or greens have the spine nessesery to refuse to support non evidenced claims.

      Israel has done plenty of prove able shit. Spreading non evidenced conspiracy theories is just as dangerous as ignoring their evidenced actions.

      Remember just because criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. Dose not mean anti-Semitic arseholes never criticise Israel.

      Jumping on every negative attack on Israel supports the true antisemitics as much as blaming them for every negative comment on Israel supports the Zionists.

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        Isn’t there actually evidence that israel knew an attack was coming and didn’t do anything about it?

        I wouldn’t go as far as to say that indicates they literally did it, but not stopping it to drum up support for a genocide sadly makes a lot of sense to me.

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          Isn’t there actually evidence that israel knew an attack was coming and didn’t do anything about it?

          That’s not what a false flag is though, a false flag would be Israel faking Oct 7, which is insane, and you shouldn’t run for office if you’re dumb enough to believe that.

          not stopping it to drum up support for a genocide sadly makes a lot of sense to me.

          You hear this a lot with 9/11 conspiracy theories too, the reality worse, it’s that bad people never miss an opportunity to do bad things, be it invading Afghanistan & Iraq or Palestine. And intelligence services are generally complacent so when something is an order of magnitude worse than expected they sometimes fuck up.

          If he posted something founded in reality, taking then bait on the balloons is still a major fuck up.

          The reality is there a lot of antisemism and if you want to be anti-zionist in politics you have to be very careful to avoid saying/doing things that the very controlled (by capital, you’ll notice Farage saying actually anti-semetic stuff dropped out then news cycle real quick) press can use against you.