Jews Did Count But for the Wrong Reasons

<p><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>As the so-called 'antisemitism crisis' in the UK Labour Party hardens into an unassailable 'truth' it becomes more important to challenge it.  This book is the voice of a Jewish person saying 'no' to it; saying 'no' to the political leveraging of antisemitism which was part of a patchwork of disinformation largely designed to eradicate the possibility and hope of a deep seated change from a dominant economic ideology that has sustained grotesque inequality wealth siphoning and asset bubbles that have ravaged our social fabric.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>Jews Did Count But for the Wrong Reasons</em><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)> is not only an account of one Jewish person's shock and dismay at the abuse of the meaning of antisemitism but also an account of a cultural shift that normalised disinformation on such a scale that it turned meaning and reality into a Mad Hatter's Tea Party.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>It is also a '</span><em style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>Lament</em><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>' for what the author considers the loss within the </span><em style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>mainstream</em><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)> sector of the Jewish communities of values of social justice equity and the instinct for challenging the </span><em style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>status quo</em><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)> that has been a significant historical marker for Jewish culture.  It is also a '</span><em style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>Lament</em><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>' for the way that an ossified sense of Jewish 'identity' has chimed in with a divisive populism.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1)>This short book then is one Jew raising his voice against the dominant narrative that there was a Labour 'antisemitism crisis.'  It looks at the history of how the use of antisemitism as a charge has changed over the last fifty years and how language framing was used by the media and certain mainstream Jewish bodies to create a sense of crisis without underlying substance.  </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>