This week’s Watchdog of the Week goes to Lydia Rivlin from London who managed to get her letter published in The Independent in response to columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s ugly opinion piece that HonestReporting recently critiqued.
Lydia was a former employee of the BBC before leaving in disgust at what she describes as the “sexism and anti-Semitism.” As well as being active on behalf of Israel, Lydia has, in the past, among other things, been involved in local politics for the Conservative Party, authored a novel and edited her local newspaper.
Here’s what she wrote to The Independent:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown says that “the right, Blairites and hard Zionists have formed the most unholy of alliances” against Jeremy Corbyn (17 August).
As a sometime parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party, I am torn about how I should react.
Should I be amused by Alibhai-Brown’s recognition of the mephistophelian side of Blair’s nature, prophesied in the famous Conservative “demon-eyes” poster, or should I be appalled by her extension of this satanic reference to “hard Zionists” (that is to say any Jew who disagrees politically with her), and her allegation that all are somehow in a conspiracy?
I can assure her that to date, no one has approached me to synchronise opinions on this candidate. So that’s one Zionist who is wholly out of the equation. Does that make me un-wholly?
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