Dear mhaze,

You say: "I simply point out that Paul's reflexive description of him as extremist is false"

How is it false? The bloke was up sprouting off at a Tommy Robinson gathering. How is that not being extremist?

In fact according to the Jewish Chronicle said of Yemini: "A Jewish man who described himself as the “official spokesperson” for far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been convicted of unlawful assault against his former wife."
http://www.thejc.com/news/world/avi-yemini-jewish-spokesperson-for-tommy-robinson-convicted-of-assault-against-former-wife-1.486946?reloadTime=1653091200011

That would be considered an extremist in the eyes of most people, why isn't it for you? The only answer to that would seem to be that your politics are that close that you can't see the extremism the rest of us clearly do.

mhaze,

Reading a bit more about this Yemini, it reinforces my earlier assessment of him as a right wing extremists. I'm sure he ticks all the boxes for you, and you consider him a moderate liberal thinker, just like yourself. His claimed “official spokesperson” capacity for Tommy Robinson, would indicate he is a far right extremists, but then again you might see Tommy Robinson as yet another moderate liberal thinker, just like yourself.

SR remains determined to pretend he didn't feel the need to doctor quotes to make his claims about Yemini seem even vaguely coherent. It's a pleasure to watch him twist in the breeze.

Of course the term 'extremist' is subjective, along the same lines as 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter'.

So if like some here, you live on the far-left, anyone to the right seems extremist. But of course, if you live on the far-left, you believe its your deity-given right to aggressively label others without being similarly treated.

It seems to me that if you are going to label someone 'extremist' it'd probably be useful to offer some examples of extreme views - you know, something like defending genocide of the Uighurs and the like. But when the best example of his extremism that you can offer is that he spoke up in favour of someone else who is mislabelled as 'extremist' and that even then you have to 'massage' the quote....well you're probably on a hiding to nothing.

I now understand why sensible, self-respecting posters are reluctant to start a thread these days: it just gives two or three of the resident nutters a chance to indulge themselves with pointless arguments and name calling.

Dear mhaze,

lol.

So now you don't even think Robinson is an extremist?

Tell that to the Irish Independent which is hardly a huge left leaning publication.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/british-far-right-extremist-tommy-robinson-arrives-in-dublin-and-says-he-invited-himself/42345213.html

Keep digging old boy.

What happened SR? Couldn't you find a Robinson quote that you could misreport to 'prove' his extremism? And it comes so naturally for you. Oh, I forgot. We're supposed to be pretending that your deliberate falsehood never happened