On 7th October Hamas rockets rained down on Israel, Hamas broke through the wall (and they ask why the wall is there), and begand their killing spree.
This was an opportunity for the likes of Owen Jones, Jeremy Corbyn and other critics of Israel to show their agenda isn’t one of antisemitism. They could have come out and flat out denounced Hamas and the horrible attacks.
But, no… not unless they can have a dig at Israel.
These are the tweets of Owen Jones from the 7th. Let me rephrase that. These are the reposts of other tweets, made by Owen while he figures out how to make this look like he’s not an antisemite. They are all tweets attacking Israel, and where the a tweet even mentions the Hamas terrorism it does so in the context of “Well, Israel asked for it.”
Owen can’t manage one tweet that’s a direct condemnation of the Hamas attacks on Israel.
So, day 1 and zero condemnation of Hamas so far. Maybe on the 8th he gets around to a tweet condemning the Hamas attack?
Nope. He does find time to repost an attack on Kier Starmer … but not Hamas. Let me emphasise that: Owen not only hasn’t directly and explicitly condemned Hamas at this stage, he has reposted ZERO tweets that condemn Hamas or the Hamas attack, or even directly and unequicolally express sympathy for their Israeli and other victims.
OK, so the 9th, surely he must realise that people are going to suspect his motives if he can’t directly and explicitly condemn Hamas.
Let’s start with his reposts. This is interesting: “It cheapens the concept of antisemitism for defenders of the Israeli government to pretend it is antisemitic to hold Israel to the same standards …” Whao! Hold on there. This is precisely what is NOT being done (held to the same standards), by Owen. Not ONE direct condemnation of the Hamas attacks at this point. Maybe THAT is what makes criticism of ONLY Israel look a tad antisemitic.
At last, Owen starts to give his own opinions … but not quite what you might hope for.
Not until his tweet well into the 9th does he manage to write “slaugther of civillians, and Hamas’ sadistic murder…” It’s an ass covering after thought, no more. From here on, his tweets are just a sickening tirade of anti-Israel attacks. He does manage one retweet of a tweet “Reports coming out of South Israel …”, but again, two days later, it’s an ass cover.
On the 10th he reports on his appearance on TV, where he performs “a lengthy condemnation of Hamas’ sickening atrocity.” A bit late, Owen, and under live pressure. It might have been more convincing had it been sooner on Twitter.
Incidentally, Owen is fond of retweeting Mehdi Hasan. But he couldn’t even retweet this one, which to Mehdi’s credit, despite his own biases, is clear enough, even if he doesn’t name Hamas explicitly:
This whole episode is another instance of where Owen Jones (like Jeremy Corbyn) has a tendency to go missing at crucial times. Other examples:
Iran – Missing In Action – Owen Jones
Owen Jones – Missing In Action – The Battle of Batley
Naturally, the snivelling little twerp doesn’t like it when you drop Hamas charter quotes in his timeline as evidence what he might want to condemn with more effort..
Ramblings 