We know that the left struggles to condemn Islamist terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott famously referred to several Islamist terror attacks as 'incidents', while they instantly condemned attacks on Muslims as 'far right terrorism'. This was the tweet that Jeremy Corbyn put out two days ago.
Today - nothing. Nothing from Diane Abbott either. Nothing from John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Ian Lavery, Owen Jones or Aaron Boring Bastani. Nothing from many of the other race-baiting tubthumpers for Black Lives Matter either. Silence from Lammy, silence from Khan.
The lack of condemnation from the left in the current climate exposes their hypocrisy like never before. They've been saying for weeks that 'black lives matter' and anyone who says 'all lives matter' is missing the point. Now we see them for who they really are and what their slogan truly means - only black lives matter, but only those black lives that have been taken by white perpetrators. You don't hear them speaking out about the much bigger problem of black-on-black violence. They aren't speaking out about the 23 people who died in the George Floyd riots. Who are the racists here?
UPDATE
Jeremy Corbyn finally tweeted at 14:40 on Sunday afternoon. Note how he makes no reference to Reading having been a terror attack. Contrast and compare with the above tweet from two days ago in which he very explicitly refers to the Finsbury Park terrorist attack.
UPDATE
Jeremy Corbyn finally tweeted at 14:40 on Sunday afternoon. Note how he makes no reference to Reading having been a terror attack. Contrast and compare with the above tweet from two days ago in which he very explicitly refers to the Finsbury Park terrorist attack.
