Another day, another Labour Party hate revelation.
This time it's The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/momentum-speaker-ewa-jasiewicz-bump-off-israeli-mps reporting that:
'An activist who called for violent direct action against Israeli politicians will speak at an event organised by Momentum during the Labour Party conference this month.
Ewa Jasiewicz, 40, is scheduled to speak about the future of trade unions at a festival organised alongside Labour's annual conference.
In 2002 she called for "activists" to "do" the Israeli parliament or "a sophisticated politician bump-off" rather than targeting Israeli civilians. At the time Ms Jasiewicz was living in Jenin, in the West Bank.
Her comments were unearthed by The Times as Jeremy Corbyn endorsed Labour members' "democratic right" to censure their MPs as a pair of his critics lost votes of no confidence after condemning the party's response to antisemitism allegations.
In a 2,700-word dispatch at the height of the second intifada, Ms Jasiewicz wrote that the son of the family she was staying with "went and opened fire on some Israeli civilians in a market somewhere a few months ago", adding: "I don't get why activists can't go and do the Knesset [Israeli parliament] or something, or do a sophisticated politician bump-off like the PFLP?"
The PFLP refers to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has since been proscribed by the European Union as a terrorist organisation. Ms Jasiewicz could have been referring to the group's assassination in 2001 of Rehavam Ze'evi, an Israeli general.
Ms Jasiewicz said that the comments were flippant and "in a private email which ended up being published on the PalSolidarity website in 2002 as was the case at times with emailed reports on Israeli occupation activity back then".
She said: "I do not and never have, advocated the harming of anybody and this was definitely not the intention of the comment in the email. I apologise for any harm or upset this has caused and I ask people to understand it in the context that it was written, both as a flippant comment in a private email and under conditions of a violent occupation."'
So the excuse this time is that this particular individual was just being flippant. Maybe she was being ironic, how would I know as I am Jewish?
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