I'm starting to think my friends are a little sick of me posting pro-Corbyn stuff on Twitter or re-tweeting Owen Jones/Ash Sarkar stuff. Pretty much all of my friends consider themselves on the left but a lot of them have parroted the usual "Corbyn is unelectable, Corbyn needs to deal with the anti-semitism in his own party".
I've become one of those people who believes there's a mad conspiracy to smear Corbyn.
At this point, and in hindsight, looking back on how long this anti-Semitism story has ran for, I actually think Labour and Corbyn should be much more critical of the media, and much more open that the accusations are, in many cases, politically motivated smears.
As it stands, Labour have always repeated the line that they oppose all racism... but then the Tories say that too. It's what you expect any party or organisation to say in that situation - even though, in this case, it's true.
Instead, Labour probably needed to implant an idea much earlier that all these media attacks are politically motivated, so that the public could start viewing all criticism of Labour through that prism - and over time, it would start to seem obvious to most people there was truth in that argument.
It wouldn't kill the attacks, but it might have provided a more compelling alternative narrative for people to bear in mind when hearing this stuff. Plus, the media can't resist talking about itself and defending itself, which would have meant more coverage for Labour's counter arguments.
I understand why Labour tried to avoid this at the time, but looking back, I'm sure it would have helped them by this point.
