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Too many sides, parties and posts mentioned to follow what your point is...
Just to be clear I don't support the labour party. And noting that they, as they said they would, had an inquiry, while the Conservatives did not do as they said they would and haven't had an inquiry is not taking sides.
What is noticeable in the difference in the media exposure given to anti-semitism claims within Labour compared to Islamaphobia wihin the Conservative party. Some of the stories like this one are straining the bounds of credibility. Allegedly took place in March 2018 but is reported for the first time in November 2019 just before an election. And reportedly only heard by the Buzzfeed journalist but not by others on the bus.
The incident happened on the evening of Thursday March 15 2018. This reporter was sitting behind Carden and McGinn on a private bus back to London from Cheltenham races. Also present were other Labour MPs as well as MPs from other parties.
As he and Labour colleagues played music from their phones throughout the two-and-a-half hour ride back to the capital, Carden — a lifelong campaigner on equalities issues — repeatedly sang the chorus of “Hey Jude”, replacing the word “Jude” with “Jews”.
When the chorus reached the word “Jude”, Carden chanted at the top of his voice: “Jews, Jews, Jews”.
A Senior Labour Politician Sang “Hey Jews” To The Song “Hey Jude”
The chorus of of Hey Jude has only one sequence where Jude could be multiply replaced by Jews without buggering up the singalong. And if you listen to the original song, Paul McCartney seems to be singing Jew (Ju) himself to my ears: 03.59 onwards
Ju, Ju, Jude, Jude Judeh, Judeh whoa
and at 04.11
Ju, Ju, Ju, Ju, Ju
This was a coach full of journalists and MPs. If anyone genuinely believed any antisemitic behaviour had taken place, they would’ve had a moral responsibility to report it immediately . He questioned why Buzzfeed had only been published the piece “when a general election is imminent”, rather than in March 2018 when the incident was alleged to have occurred.
Buzzfeed.........did not explain why it previously chose not to publish the story.
Corbyn to investigate claims shadow minister sang ‘Hey Jews’ over ‘Hey Jude’ lyrics
Sounds to me more like a perhaps drunken slurring of the word Jude by a scouser being misheard, misinterpreted, and misreported. It would fall into the category of not proven unless a lot of other people on the bus suddenly come forward to support the story with one or more luckily having a recording of the song being sung they've just remembered was on their phone for the last 20 months....
a 2014 Pew Research Center survey found that in the United States, BuzzFeed was viewed as an unreliable source by the majority of respondents, regardless of age or political affiliation
But this is not the first time this song has been involved in controversy
Paul McCartney had no idea anybody would associate the now iconic Beatles song “Hey Jude” with the Jews. That was, until he got a very angry phone call. But one day in 1968, McCartney said, “I got this furious phone call from this guy, Mr. Leon, who was Jewish, he said: ‘What are you doing, how dare you do this.’” The singer added that “In Hitler’s day, in the Nazi thing, ‘Juden raus’ meant Jews out. And I didn’t connect.”
Paul McCartney: 'Hey Jude' isn't about the Jews
Carden could thus have replaced Jude with Juden if he had wanted to be particularly insulting... |
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