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Astrophysics degree[edit]
“and studied astrophysics in 1979 at Queen Mary College (no degree recorded)” – But the QMUL alumni magazine QUAD (issue 16, 2007) says on page 9: “Piers Corbyn (MSc Astrophysics, 1981)” -- Ivan (talk) 07:02, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
2020[edit]
Recently being involved with anti-COVID protests and also a QAnon supporter.[1] --Annanoon (talk) 12:48, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Fire eating[edit]
Anyone got a good link to Pier and the fire-eating incident at the protest? Anna Livia (talk) 21:07, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
External link[edit]
Where should [2] be posted? Anna Livia (talk) 19:51, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Anitsemitism[edit]
this is pretty weak stuff. antivaxxer/lockdown banner has seen every conspiracy theorist imaginable come together. twitter being what it is and anti vaxxers being what they are slap every hashtag for every lunatic theory because thats what conspiracy theorists do. the alleged antisemitism of some theories and of some of their proponents is not front and centre of the theories espoused, its all alluded to rather than spoken out loud. its there if you want it, its not if you dont. the hashtags get retweeted by those like corbyn too blind to see any antisemitic under current in their eagerness to throw everything at their cause, dismissing all criticism as slurs intended to discredit them. far right groups were always going to turn up at events and latch on to the gullible rubes assembled.
the only overt antisemitism is a retweet that corbyn asserts is fake. the source used here is campaign against antisemitism, hardly a neutral source. the claims made in the alleged fake tweet are pretty outrageous, one would think they would follow corbyn like a shadow, coming to the fore everytime anyone wanted to discredit him. dunno how you'd check a fake tweet, but he denies its genuine (or possibly a mistaken retweet) and this the first time im hearing of this story, so i guess it didnt really stick. use of the word jewess doesnt scream nazi to me. the dictionary says its offensive, so i guess it is. but in needed the dictionary to tell me that because no one is the using the word lately to give any context beyond corbyn's tweet. as he said he married a jewess. i bet hes been referring to his missus like that for years and she never told him he probably shouldnt.
its only really this article that accuses him of antisemitism (except CAA, and they, as i said, are hardly neutral). we are giving far too much weight to so little. we dont come out and say he is an antisemite merely events give the 'appearance' of an antisemite. we dont say that he is but we really want you to think definitely is. its a very dishonest weaselly way of pushing a line while pretending the evidence speaks for itself but really doesnt. dont do that please. AMassiveGay (talk) 15:33, 5 December 2021 (UTC)