Antisemitism doesn't always come doing a Hitler salute

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Their intent is to paint the Labour leader, his son, as a secret Britain-hating Marxist

This is the British equivalent of the birther conspiracies, or the other "Obama was brought up a Marxist by his mother/step-father/secret real father" nonsense. Their main attack on Ralph Miliband is about his supposed hatred for Britain (ignoring, for instance, that he fought in the Royal Navy at D Day).

They're not going after him because he had a Jewish father - they never tried anything like this with Michael Howard, for instance, who was Tory leader about 10 years ago, whose father similarly arrived in the UK, in 1939. But, having decided to attack him as 'hating Britain', they do seem to have used one or two of the phrases that have been used to attack other Jewish people.