We had the right to enjoy our private religious celebration with Jeremy Corbyn without fear of being recorded

I came to the Jewdas Seder last night as a completely new face. I’ve been aware of them for a few years now, but it wasn’t until now that I’d gotten around to attending an event. Even though I’d heard good things, I didn’t really know what to expect, going in – and I certainly wasn’t expecting to see Jeremy Corbyn standing there the moment I walked through the door.

I’d heard it was a welcoming environment, and that there would be Jews like me there: Jews who had had a limited religious upbringing, who were LGBT+, who didn’t feel like they could support Jewish organisations that weren’t willing to criticise Israel’s domestic policy.

And I wasn’t disappointed. It was nothing like my family Seder – it was more political, more raucous, and decidedly more populated – but at the same time, it felt like family.

Imagine, for a moment, that someone really famous has come to an event at your village hall – not as a keynote speaker or publicity hook, but as an invited guest, like everyone else. People around you are surprised to see them, but the event itself is perfectly ordinary. You eat and drink. You do all the things that your village hall group usually does, and talk about all the things you normally talk about. Your kids play contentedly in the background, occasionally popping up to do an activity that’s designed for them.

Now imagine finding out, as soon as you’ve left, that the whole thing was recorded and sent to someone who has stated their intention to set your village hall on fire. That someone who is presumably known to at least a couple of people in your village association, if not someone who’s been a member for a while, also wants to burn the hall down and eliminate the group.

Nothing that happened last night is in the public interest.

Jeremy Corbyn went to a meal he’d been invited to.

He had a right to attend as a guest and have his privacy respected, but – more importantly – so did the rest of us.

The idea that the paparazzi might have shown up and caused tremendous distress to young children is so abhorrent to me that I can barely articulate it.

The idea that my private religious practice could be placed in the public domain, unbeknownst to me, at any time, makes me feel ill.

Last night, I felt accepted as a Jew for perhaps the first time in my life.

Last night, everyone in that room was betrayed and endangered – because the trope of the Evil Jew is still alive, well, and fresh in the mouths of those who claim to oppose antisemitism.

I want to practise my religion and engage with my culture freely, the way only Jewdas has offered me the chance to do. I don’t want to feel like I have to constantly look over my shoulder and wonder what the person behind me is doing with their phone.

If Guido Fawkes is so keen to defend the religious rights of Jews – and this I have plenty of reason to doubt – then what about our right to worship and observe in private? Why does this freedom only apply to a certain type of Jew?

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Nobody denied them their right to worship

They questioned their extreme views

As can be seen by their documented views and the recording of 4 hours of that evening.

I dont think Guido denied them their right to religion but as seen, maybe they can explain the following:

Let's look at those "rituals" as seen in the Jewdas "Haggadah" from last year. (h/t On The Dark Side)

Most seders involve four cups of wine. Ours involves one quantity of wine and one only: as much as it fucking takes. For our purposes, the FIRST four cups we drink will represent the normal seder shit. The reason it normally involves four is because Judaism is obsessed with fucking four. Four represents “the four seasons of the year”, “the four douchebag ancient empires that fucked with Israel”, and “the four corners of the universe”. But the universe isn’t square. YOU ARE.
Tonight, the four cups are the four types of freedom. Just fucking go with it.

Now that we see how much Jewdas respects Judaism, we can go on:


Usually, left wing seders love talking about how Jews spill some wine in talking about the plagues to say that Egyptian suffering shouldn't be celebrated. Not this one:

SECOND BUCKET OF WINE
Legend has it that when the Egyptians were being sucked down
into the Red Sea, hallucinogenic angels wanted to chant a cover of
Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah in victory. This peeved Lorde. Lorde
rebuked: “Fucking angels! How you gonna do me like that? Those
are MY little bastards drowning down there! I know they were doing
bad shit, but fucking show some compassion!”
In a “normal” seder, we’d fill our second bucket of wine only halfway
to show that it’s sad to see any human suffering, even those
asswipes. In this seder, we fill two buckets of wine per person
because...yeah. Fuck those fascists.

Finally, we get to the point of "anti-Israel" part. And it isn't just anti-Israel, which, lets face it, no one would complain about. And it isn't just antisemitic, either.


Corbyn's buddies don't like the Queen either. Or Parliament.

“Prayer against the State of Israel” by Geoffry Cohen

Please God, smash the State of Israel. Smash it in the abundance of your
love. Send forth your light and truth to those who lead. And JUDGE it - on Yom
Kippur try to pay special attention to those who hold elective office. Establish
in them, through some sort of magic God thing, wise counsel, that they might
stop being so fucking racist. We're sure you've been trying but srsly, you need
to give this some more thought.
Strengthen the hands of those who seek to liberate our holy land that isn't
actually ours at all but everyone's. Let them inherit salvation and life. And give
peace to the land, and perpetual joy to all its inhabitants. Stop referring to the
“house of Israel”, that's gone, it's been hundreds of years, get over it, get a flat.
Plant in our hearts a love of everywhere. Destroy all borders, tear down all
walls, quick, before Banksy comes and draws something on it.
And for all our people everywhere, may God be with them, and may they have
the opportunity to go wherever they want to go, and help them to live in peace
with their neighbours. Cause your spirit’s influence to emanate upon the
dwellers of Stamford Hill and/or Golders Green.

Meaning...Jews. Because mainstream Jews are evil and need to be set right.

And fuck the queen and ESPECIALLY FUCK PRINCE PHILIP. Burn down
parliament. Full communism. Amen.