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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by twic on Monday November 06, 2023 @07:15PM (#38171245)
> - Corbyn rejected the internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance[4].

> [4] Politics | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics.

Sorry, is your citation for this point the Guardian's entire politics section? Four years ago that would have been pretty accurate, admittedly, but today, this is an absolutely non-serious thing to post.

In any case, it wasn't just Corbyn who opposed incorporating the IHRA definition into disciplinary rules, it was, amongst others, the guy who wrote it:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/antise...

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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by hot_gril on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:48PM (#38181072)
> Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

Well yeah. I would hope that a foreign nation that we (the US) so consistently arm, fund, and diplomatically support would be held to higher standards than one we don't.

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