Last night the SNP ditched its second office-bearing member in a week for supposed “anti-Semitism”. Both were thrown under the bus days before a general election for comments deemed to have compared the actions of the government of Israel to those of the Nazis during WW2, which is contrary to the definition of the term used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The specific line that both were deemed to have infringed was “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” – although interestingly the SNP has never publicly confirmed that it’s actually signed up to the definition, and the super-woke Greens haven’t adopted it either.
The suspensions of Neale Hanvey and Denise Findlay were triggered by the actions of supporters of two SNP politicians who have recently been very vocal about supposed “cybernat abuse” – MEP Alyn Smith and MP Stewart McDonald, both pictured below.
And some alert readers had questions.
Because in 2014 Alyn Smith said this:
Accusing the Israeli government of being a “primary opponent of peace”, “brutalising the population” of Palestinians and “encouraging violence, which is then used to justify further aggression” sounds to us an awful lot like the first two charges in this list:
And why is that relevant? Because those are the indictments that were levelled against the defendants in the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46.
It’s quite hard to think of anything that more comprehensively “Draws comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” than accusing them of exactly what dozens of Nazi war criminals were condemned to death for.
So by the same rules that did for Hanvey and Findlay, Alyn Smith is clearly also a vile anti-Semite who must be purged from the SNP.
But surely we can at least be confident that the super-pious, ultra-centrist, anti-abuse stalwart McDonald has never done anything as outrageous as accuse the contemporary government of Israel of acts comparable to Nazi war crimes?
Oh. Oh dear.
It’s not exactly ambiguous, is it? A direct call for the then Prime Minister of Israel to face a war-crimes trial for racist oppression, just like the Nazis. So if we’re bound by the IHRA definition, Stewart McDonald is clearly also an anti-Semite who must be suspended from the SNP immediately without a hearing, just like Neale Hanvey.
(Amusingly, just last night McDonald had described the idea of comparing the Israeli government to the war criminals charged at Nuremberg as “revolting”, but that was when WE were supposedly doing it. It’s different if you’re him, obviously)
Now, as it happens, we don’t disagree with what either man said on the subject, just like we didn’t disagree with Hanvey and Findlay when they said the same things, and nor do we think either is anti-Semitic. Israel of all nations must be aware of the road that paved the way to the Holocaust, and should not be given a free pass to travel down it, just like we don’t let murderers off if they’re psychologically damaged because their mum got murdered when they were a child or something.
But the point is that if you make your bed you must lie in it – if breaching the IHRA definition is anti-Semitism when you’re Hanvey or Findlay, then it’s anti-Semitism when you’re Smith and McDonald too.
The screeching woke fundamentalists who surround both men insist that their Stalinist purges of the party are necessary to remove obstacles to a “better Scotland” (in which category they also include this site.)
But a better Scotland would be a place where blatant double standards and brazen hypocrisy were not tolerated, and where mobs of pitchfork-wielding fascists did not wield the power to drive out those they considered impure untermenschen.
If Hanvey and Findlay are not fit for the modern SNP, then it is demonstrably the case that neither Smith nor McDonald are either. And as it happens, one particular member of the ParteiStaatsPolizei agrees with us – Smith’s boyfriend and Woke Witchfinder General, Jordon Henderson.
Oops.
Henderson and most of the rest of the SNP’s transcult McCarthyites have currently locked down their social media accounts while they frantically purge their own histories of unfortunate comments.
Most strikingly the deeply brave and stunning self-described Scottish Government equalities adviser and former penis owner Leeze Lawrence.
Can any alert readers think of any organisations with a poor historical record on the treatment of gypsies and Russians? It’s slipping our mind at the moment.
Leeze is an all-round charmer:
And almost as delightful a character as Henderson:
But Lawrence and Henderson couldn’t be more warmly embraced (in Henderson’s case literally) by the SNP’s wokest representatives:
(Lawrence also has a revealing view on the SNP’s purpose.)
So to be honest with you, readers, we’re not quite sure what the rules of the new “better Scotland” will be, because they seem to be rather fluid. But if the SNP actually do want to achieve independence, it might be an idea to nail them down, and also to check that the people currently being thrown under the bus are the right ones.
Because right now the party is becoming more of a roadblock than a routemap.
