Ye Livingstone Formulatione On Antisemitisme

You have all probably seen the current madness over the Bayeux Tapestry. So some wags have created this brilliant online Bayeux generator, which you can use to create your own designs.

So, with all the various news items about anti-Semitism and the left this week (mostly, sad to say, referencing the Labour Party), I’m afraid I couldn’t resist creating this:

At the risk of labouring the point, this is the way the hard left (and certain members of Momentum, in particular) often counter-attack accusations of anti-Semitism by saying “no, mate – I was just criticising Israel, can’t you tell the difference?”

Thanks to James Mendelsohn for reminding me that this type of bad-faith accusation, levelled at Jews, was memorably named by writer David Hirsh as “The Livingstone Formulation”, after our dear friend Ken who has made great strides in popularising this odious technique (see Centre Lefts passim).