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27 April 2016

When it comes to Labour and anti-Semitism, there’s only so much this left-wing Jew can suck it up

When it comes to who the hell I’m going to vote for in 2020, I can’t help feeling that I have to choose which is more important: my Jewishness or my leftness.

By Eleanor Margolis

“Suck it up,” I think to myself, every time a new detail of Labour’s anti-Semitism epidemic is revealed.

The origin of the phrase “suck it up” is quite gross. Allegedly, it’s what WWII pilots were instructed to do if they vomited into their oxygen masks, to avoid drowning in their own puke.

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