J.K Rowling Goes Whole Hog(warts) Against the Antisemites

With the antisemitism in the UK (and especially of the UK Labour Party) coming to the fore, author J.K Rowling has decided to speak out about it on Twitter.

Among the series of retweets and her own tweets, she deals with common “arguments” of antisemites such as:

You can’t be racist against Jews, because Judaism is a religion, not a race
Arabs are also semites
But Israel

Reported. I'm all out of glib today, so I'll just say I'm sorry xx

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

I'm sorry (in the sense of expressing sympathy and solidarity) that David is receiving racist abuse.

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

Most UK Jews in my timeline are currently having to field this kind of crap, so perhaps some of us non-Jews should start shouldering the burden. Antisemites thinks this is a clever argument, so tell us, do: were atheist Jews exempted from wearing the yellow star? #antisemitism pic.twitter.com/H5xLLXTdQO

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/986632891651280897

When you only understand bigotry in terms of "pick a team" and get a mind- boggling response. pic.twitter.com/nh391nPTcC

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

The 'Arabs are semitic too' hot takes have arrived. #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/4vrAbnwVB6

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

Split hairs. Debate etymology. Gloss over the abuse of your fellow citizens by attacking the actions of another country's government. Would your response to any other form of racism or bigotry be to squirm, deflect or justify? pic.twitter.com/PPmb4zQWxo

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

I'm so sorry to hear this. Know that you aren't alone and that a lot of us stand with you xx

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/986645821310500870

No, I was tweeting about the anti-Semitism that's rife on Twitter. You then jumped into my mentions to imply that 'anti-Semitism' is widely-accepted code for 'Labour' these days. You might want to rethink that career in PR. pic.twitter.com/il7lsjObiC

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 18, 2018

This follows her rejection of BDS against Israel a few years ago.

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David Lange

A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media

J.K Rowling Goes Whole Hog(warts) Against the Antisemites

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