if you don't know my background btw - most of the old hands do but idk if you were around in those days - I was closely involved in anarchist etc stuff from teens thru my mid-20s
my views are generally more complicated and less certain, but I'd still never in a million years attack a guy like Corbyn from the right
my views on Israel etc are especially complicated but in general I don't think of it in terms of pro and anti
Palestinians have gotten an incredibly raw deal. Jews got possibly the rawest deal in all of history before that. Both of those things are, historically, largely Europe's fault.
it can be a high-wire balance act to strongly condemn the Israeli govt (which is not the same as Israel, the country) without embracing very unsavery bedmates
Corbyn's has done a very shitty job of that. I think he believes he's maybe used inopportune language but as always been morally in the right.
I would be fine voting for a politician who is 100% anti-settlement, or who wanted to cut off military aid, or many things
I would never in a million years vote for any politician who befriends Hamas and Holocaust deniers, whatever the moral imperative they think they have behind it.
You're not me, you have a different view, that's fine. but my view is the same as it was to begin with: fuck him.