No room for an honest debate

Subject: No room for an honest debate.

The onslaught against Ken Livingston seems to have no bounds and like the the Salam Witch Hunt, is fanatical in its aims.
What are those aims. The preservation of the almost mythical position The Jews hold in the Western World regarding privilege through the persecution they have suffered, specifically  at the hands of the Nazi Party in Germany. The horror of the concentration camps which became death or extermination camps holds no comparable comparison regardless of the barbarity of ancient tribes and the destruction they caused. This was industrial killing based on a plan to exterminate a group of people who were identified as Jews.
The Jews had suffered pogroms before. Initially they were driven out of Palestine by the Roman legions. In 1791 Catherine the Great created the 'Pale of Settlement', an area in which Jews were forced to live and, particularly in Russia the Ukraine and Poland, they suffered repeated atrocities 70.000 massacred in the Ukraine, 14.000 killed in Romania, 6.000 in Poland and this before the Germans started the mechanise the killing.
Why were the Jews singled out in this way. Their individuality was apparent and their habit of living in close community made them a target but why the hostility. A hostility which became a mania to wipe out the residents of these Jewish ghettos. It's as if they were to blame for something, scapegoats perhaps.
The success of the Jewish family, its accomplishment, achieved  through a gene pool of talent and a willingness to work hard, has no corresponding equivalent amongst other ethnic groups. The belief in being the 'Gods Chosen People' gave them a symbiotic understanding of their place, not only in history but the relationship they had toward each other. This extended family had great power and where ever they lived, they prospered. The exclusiveness which held the Jews together also separated them from society at large and made them a target.
The Holocaust made them famous for the most infamous of reasons. Many hands were mixed up in the events which started as incarceration and became extermination, not least the governments of all the Powers specifically Stalin but also the French, Italian and through inaction, the British and Americans.
The opprobrium  heaped on Ken Livingston's shoulders was his recollection of the "Haavara" agreement, made in Germany in 1932.   An agreement between the German Government and the representatives of German Jews,  to resettle 60.000 German Jews to Palestine. This piece of history has been air brushed out by the Jewish congregation since it 'very slightly' mitigates the Germans in the world condemnation of the Holocaust.
Livingston's mention of it has produced a backlash from British Jews with their leaders calling for Livingston's expulsion from the Labour Party. But it's not only the Jews who are calling for him to go, it's also the opportunists who seek these moments to beat their breasts with righteous indignation on a subject they feel they are secure in bringing self congratulatory applause.

These Judas like characters who would stab you in the back as soon as look at you, people like Tom Watson the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, are complicit in a crime now so common amongst the political class and commentariat. The crime of duplicity, deception, hypocrisy take your pick.

It's the currency they deal in and when truth and dissimulation are interchangeable there is no hope for an honest debate.