Maybe I am in a minority, but reading Abbot's comments, I really can't see how it offends. I don't see it as anti Semitic at all. She is just stating the truth, you see a black or Asian person in the street, you don't necessarily see a Jewish person. They will experience prejudice, but it is different. Not better or worse, but different.
One of the guys under me at work is Jewish, I have been his boss for 8 months and only found out he was Jewish when he told me. Lol I think he told me when we had a production issue and I said that what we were doing was a bit of a Hail Mary, and he said well I'm Jewish so let's hope for something else. I pointed out that I am an atheist so we have no hope with it working!
In 2023 what she was doing, as one of the very few things she does well, was playing to her black constituents. She has made a career out of race baiting and this was another example. But by feeding black people's perception that any hardship that comes their way is a result of racism, she made the mistake of implying that Jews didn't experience racism but more of a prejudice and because of that black people had it worse. That has always been her style, but because the labour party were twitchy about antisemitism she paid the price.
As a result she gave a profuse apology, see below.
This time around when asked if she regretted what she said in 2023 she answered "no not at all". This has been taken as going back on her apology in 2023. She then tried explain that what she said back then was what you quoted above about obvious differences in appearance, which isn't strictly true.
This is what Abbott said in 2023;
Abbott, 69, was responding to a writer's claims that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people suffered racism. She said that their experiences were similar to racism but that there were differences.
"They undoubtedly experience prejudice. This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable," she wrote.
"It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice," she said in the letter. "But they are not all their lives subject to racism."
Abbott, who has been a lawmaker since 1987, was the first Black woman to be elected to parliament in Britain, and is a close ally of Corbyn for whom she served as the party's spokesperson for home affairs.
In her letter to the Observer, Abbott said that
"in pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships."
She later apologised "unreservedly" and withdrew her remarks.
"The errors arose in an initial draft being sent," she said in a message posted on Twitter.
"But there is no excuse, and I wish to apologise for any anguish caused."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...s-experience-prejudice-not-racism-2023-04-23/
As an MP, Abbott has the platform to encourage unity and improve race relations. Black people will listen to her and she can influence thinking but for all the time that I've been aware of her she has had nothing positive to say, ever. In fact quite the opposite. IMO she and some of the other black MP's are responsible for a lot of unrest and feelings of persecution among our black community.
She may not have meant to sound antisemitic in 2023, but in her eagerness to apportion racism, her lack of awareness regarding Jews saw her downfall. Her job is to represent all races, all colours but as far as I see it, she doesn't. I'm glad the labour party have dumped her, it's been a long time coming.
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