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Starmer's self congratulations on the handling of antisemitism within the Labour Party is built on one of the most comprehensive cover ups in modern British politics, and a litany of lies that makes Boris Johnson look like an oracle of truth telling...
the principle lie is that the previous leadership 'interfered' in order to undermine the proper handling of antisemitism complaints. As anyone with the slightest relationship to facts will know, that is not just a lie, it is an Orwellian inversion of the truth...
here's just one of countless examples where the Corbyn leadership was trying to get a hostile, right wing party bureaucracy to act on antisemitism complaints, disclosed long before the EHRC report or even Panorama's widely discredited episode on the topic.. 
Why are the left so angry with @Guardian? Like many other newspapers, it does some very good journalism, sometimes makes mistakes and has its own ideological blind spots. But I don't think the anger is as much to do with its coverage as a systemic failure of accountability...
When the NY Times was exposed over its disastrous pre Iraq war coverage, it famously published a front page apology to readers. Although it went on to repeat many of the same mistakes, the apology mattered. It was an important moment of humility and self-reflection...
In contrast over the last 5 years @guardian has proved itself institutionally and almost pathologically resistant to meaningful accountability at every turn...
since @LabourAgainstAS seem to have gone a little coy about this, I'll take an educated guess at what's in their 'substantial body of evidence' against me...
1. They'll accuse me of sharing a platform with Jackie Walker whom I have publicly criticised...
1. They'll accuse me of sharing a platform with Jackie Walker whom I have publicly criticised...
Because like anyone with an ounce of sanity, I don't believe a person with Jewish heritage who then chooses to marry and spend their life with another person from an orthodox Jewish family, who observes Jewish rituals and customs, actually hates Jews...
2. They'll say I defended/supported/campaigned for Chris Williamson because I objected to his suspension and believe that, like Ken Livingstone, people who say insensitive and silly things sometimes are not necessarily antisemitic...
The dominant narrative that Corbyn undermined Labour's handling of antisemitism complaints has been torn to pieces by #LeakedLabourReport. Remarkably some, including John Ware, are still trying to stand it up. But there remains one consistent and crucial omission:
A year before the leaked Labour report, and 2 months before the BBC aired John Ware's controversial Panorama programme on the issue, leaked emails were already in the public domain showing the leadership's repeated attempts to speed up investigations and expedite sanctions...
In one email Sam Matthews was directly asked by Corbyn's aide why one member facing a serious allegation of antisemitism had not been suspended. Another email from the leadership's office pleaded the JLM's case not to lift Ken Livingstone's suspension...
