The more I research the more I become convinced that this accusation is just confusing criticism of Zionism and Israel with antisemitism.
On 'The Daily Politics' today the labour party conference was mentioned. This caused a small amount of consternation at the time as a 'fringe speaker' was apparently making antisemitic remarks and denying the holocaust. Here's a quote from the filthy antisemite -
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“Promoters of racist ideologies should not be given a public platform, and to me that does include people who promote Zionism – which is a racist ideology whose followers have committed and continue to commit crimes against the people of Palestine.
“If we are to do justice to the memory of the millions of victims of the Holocaust, Jewish and Roma and many, many others, then we must engage in robust debate and education about the causes of current, ongoing violence and injustice.”
So we can strike that instance off the list.
Earlier in the program David Baddiel, a British Jewish comedian, made reference to the comments of Ken Livingstone who had got into hot water by briefly mentioning as an illustration to another point entirely, in an interview with Vanessa Felts,, how the Zionist movement collaborated with Hitler prior to the second world war.
After being called out on it Ken had to clarify his comment. Here's what Ken had to say -
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Livingstone’s comments expanded on his claim that Hitler supported Zionism because the Nazi government signed the Haavara agreement, which facilitated the relocation of Jews to Palestine in 1933 before the Third Reich turned to mass murder and extermination. The agreement allowed a portion of Jewish emigrants’ possessions, which they were forced to hand over before they left Germany, to be re-claimed through transfers to Palestine as German export goods.
“He didn’t just sign the deal. The SS set up training camps so that German Jews who were going to go there could be trained to cope with a very different sort of country when they got there. When the Zionist movement asked, would the Nazi government stop a Jewish rabbi doing their sermons in Yiddish and make them do it in Hebrew, he agreed to that.
“He passed a law saying the Zionist flag and the swastika were the only flags that could be flown in Germany. An awful lot. Of course, they started selling Mauser pistols to the underground Jewish army. So you had right up until the start of the second world war real collaboration.”
Once again - not criticism of Jews but criticism of the Zionist movement AND actual historic FACT.
Whenever criticism of Zionism and the Israeli state is levelled it seems that cries of antisemitism are the automatic response. I am still yet to find an example of genuine antisemitism among Labour MPs and the failure of anyone in this thread, or on twitter, to provide me with any does little to sway my opinion that this is simply a means of defending Israel and Jewish settlers from criticism for their actions in regards to Palestine.