I'm tired of reading lies about a wonderful warm kind human being.
This is who @jeremycorbyn is. 👇🏻
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An ex service gentleman meets @jeremycorbyn they talk about the help ex soliders need
And end the conversation with him telling Jeremy
"I love you mate
You're a star"
"Look around this crowd
We are young, old,
We are Black,
We are White,
We're disabled,
We're LBGTQ
We are the whole wonderful mosaic of diversity& inclusion
Racism divides
When you've created that sense of hate
You haven't built a house,
You haven't built a school" @jeremycorbyn
"Forty-two years ago, antifascists beat back a violent, far-right mob that had descended on a diverse neighborhood of North London.
Among the antifascist organizers was a young Labour councillor named @jeremycorbyn."
From 2019
#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
jacobin.com/2019/04/battle…
@jeremycorbyn
Speaking up for #NHS /Healthcare workers
#SaveOurNHS #NHSPAY
"Wherever there is colonial rule,
occupation & denial of self determination,
it's followed by repression,
by massacres
by cover ups.
We've seen that again& again including other places, Iraq, Libya where countless lives have been lost and justice has been absent." @jeremycorbyn
"You can see it in England
The attack on @jeremycorbyn?
There's enormous fear including from @UKLabour
The idea that you might have a party that represents the general public & suffering people abroad?
That's led by a decent human being?
That's intolerable to them"
Chomsky 2018
"Corbyn organised the Apr. 1977 defence of Jewish populated Wood Green from a Neo-Nazi march
EDM3933 7 Nov. 1990: Corbyn signs motion condemning the rise of antisemitism."
#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/fifty-…
"EDM634, 11 Apr. 2000: Jeremy Corbyn signs motion condemning David Irving for being a Holocaust Denier.
EDM1124, 6 Nov. 2000: Jeremy Corbyn praised the ‘British Schindler’, Bill Barazetti, for his WW2 kindertransport."
jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/fifty-…
"EDM742, 28 Jan. 2002: Jeremy Corbyn signs motion praising football clubs for commemorating Holocaust Day.
EDM1233 30 Apr. 2002: Corbyn was a primary sponsor on a motion condemning antisemitism."
jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/fifty-…
“It will set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery &of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and misery of future generations.”
@jeremycorbyn on #IraqWar
He was right, he always is when you look at his stances over the years
"We write as Jewish members of the Islington North Labour Party to express the enduring distress we have experienced watching the continual accusations of anti-Semitism made against our MP, @jeremycorbyn , with our own experiences completely ignored.."
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islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Right now we are devastated that this process has climaxed in the suspension of our cherished MP and former leader."
Article from 2020
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islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Unlike most of his critics, it is we who actually know and regularly meet Jeremy Corbyn.
As Jews we have always felt safe, welcome, and supported in everything we do in the borough and the party."
Article from 2020
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islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Indeed we often feel this all the more strongly, knowing that so many who choose to speak in our name completely disrespect our commitment to combating anti-Semitism and racism of all kinds in struggles for a better world, including the vital struggle for Palestinian rights"
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" @jeremycorbyn has been our MP for almost 40 years, yet battles to discredit him as anti-Semitic began only after his unexpected victory as leader of the party, some three decades later."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Tellingly it was especially after his relative success in the elections of 2017 that we saw orchestrated denunciations that Corbyn was presiding over a party that was “institutionally anti-Semitic”."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"There is so very much that is wrong with this account. Until very recently the real prevalence of anti-Semitism in political parties remained unaddressed."
Article from 2020
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islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"It was only in the last few years,under @jeremycorbyn, that continuing investigations into anti-Semitism began in the Labour Party. Tragically this served as much to confuse as to enlighten people, in ways too numerous to list here"
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"But they were clearly tied in with Corbyn’s support for Palestinian rights and the recent introduction of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.."
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"..Making it difficult to distinguish legitimate criticisms of the Israeli state from what might be declared anti-Semitic."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"One thing we know for sure is that Corbyn faced an unrelentingly hostile campaign of disinformation, as established by comprehensive media research led by Justin Schlosberg and Laura Laker in their report in 2018."
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Article from 2020
"There is so very much that has been deliberately evaded or denied about Corbyn’s actual relation to Judaism and anti-Semitism."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Over the years @jeremycorbyn has created mutually supportive relations with the practising Jewish community in Islington, attending numerous official Jewish events in north London."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"In 1987 @jeremycorbyn participated in a successful Jewish-led campaign to reverse a decision by Islington Council to sell an early 19th-century Jewish cemetery to property developers."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Against some local resistance, @jeremycorbyn promoted the installation of a plaque on a demolished synagogue site in 2015 to celebrate Jewish life in the borough."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Above all, unlike most of his Westminster critics, @jeremycorbyn unfailingly turned up to vote for parliamentary motions addressing anti-Semitism, just as he worked tirelessly against racism on every front."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"This is precisely why Jews on the left in the Labour Party – and there are still many of us – are among the most supportive of Corbyn’s overall political project."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"Finally, carefully buried under mountains of misinformation, YouGov polls on anti-Semitism in political parties from 2015 and 2017 revealed that anti-Semitism significantly declined within the @UKLabour Party under @jeremycorbyn."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"We know that there remains anti-Semitism in the party, as the Equalities & Human Rights Commission report found, and that there was some interference in the speed with which complaints about it were handled (though details of the nature of this interference remain ambiguous"
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"@jeremycorbyn accepted the evidence provided by the EHRC, saying it should be acted upon."
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Article from 2020
"In our view it is only right that @jeremycorbyn should attempt to reassure Jews that the extent of anti-Semitism in the @UKLabour Party had been grossly exaggerated by the media,& others; not in order to fight such prejudice but as a way of attacking him."
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Article from 2020
"Promoting the false belief that 34% of the @UKLabour Party had been accused of anti-Semitism,when in reality it was 0.3% (thus exaggerated by a factor of 100)serves only to undermine the significance of the real struggle against anti-Semitism,as well as harming the Labour Party"
"And accusations or allegations need to be rigorously investigated; only a proportion of that 0.3% have merited further action.
If @Keir_Starmer wants to follow the suggestions of the EHRC, he will reinstate @jeremycorbyn forthwith."
Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"This is because that document explicitly protects freedom of expression, with protection under Article 10 (including enhanced protection for elected politicians) for Labour Party members.."
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"..Who “express their opinions on internal Party matters, such as the scale of antisemitism within the Party, based on their own experience and within the law”"
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Article from 2020
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
"We would welcome a meeting with Sir @Keir_Starmer and @AngelaRayner so they can hear the whole range of Jewish perspectives within the Labour Party."
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Article from 2020
#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
#LabourParty
islingtontribune.co.uk/article/the-de…
1984 - @Conservatives MP Terry Dicks, is offended by @jeremycorbyn's dress sense
BBC 'reporter'
"Is that a jumper your Mum made?"
Corbyn, jauntily
"Yes it is"
"Did she make the shirt too?"
"No,that comes from co-op"
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*Listen to what he says about his fellow MPs at the end
"Homelessness is unnecessary&frankly its immoral that a wealthy country like Britain tolerates anyone forced to sleep on our streets
There are far more homeless people than any stats show
Lets see a human in crisis instead of someone to be pushed around from council to council "
"In 2002 Blair was attempting to force a disastrous PFI policy on the NHS
A (then) unknown MP @jeremycorbyn tried to stop it.
Blair only got NHS PFI through with Conservative support.. lead in the House of Commons by Liam Fox!"
Source 👇🏻 @TweetForTheMany
#SaveOurNHS
#Corbyn
From 2019
"A group of military veterans explain why their patriotism means they are voting for Jeremy Corbyn"
Source 👇🏻
@TitanShores
#Corbyn #IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
Former British army intelligence analyst on why she was voting @jeremycorbyn in 2019
"We deployed to Iraq without adequate equipment
We were unable to deliver on the promises that our government made to the local people, as a result we became targets
I want Britain to be safe"
"But this isn’t the first time that incarcerating asylum-seekers on ships has been suggested.
The idea was put into practice in 1986 when the government rented a ferry called the Earl Williams to house dozens of detainees."
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morningstaronline.co.uk/article/learn-…
"The experiment almost ended in disaster the following year when a storm with hurricane-speed winds dragged the ferry from its moorings in the Essex port of Harwich and out to sea."
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morningstaronline.co.uk/article/learn-…
"The majority were Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka who had fled pogroms and massacres in their homeland.
Among those who boarded the vessel in solidarity with the protesters were current MPs @jeremycorbyn and Diane @HackneyAbbott."
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morningstaronline.co.uk/article/learn-…
"What makes a leader,&what is leadership?
We are told every day that Corbyn is not a leader, from Hilary Benn’s
“He’s a good & decent man, but he’s not a leader”
to the Daily Mail saying Corbyn “is the worst Labour leader in history”"
Article from 2016
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"But in spite of the relentless Corbyn-bashing, beyond the ability to win elections (Owen Smith: seriously?) there has been little discussion of what a leader, or leadership, means."
Article from 2016
***Notice back before he nearly won an election he was a
"good& decent man"
"A foreign affairs committee chaired by the Conservative MP Crispin Blunt delivered its excoriating verdict on David Cameron’s Libyan adventure. Few people will rush to Cameron’s defence."
Article from 2016
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"Yet the former prime minister @David_Cameron
might be forgiven for feeling a pang of irritation at the committee’s uncompromising verdict.
In March 2011, when Cameron went to the Commons to propose bombing Libya, no fewer than 557 MPs voted with him"
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"Just 13 voted against. (Bombing Libya)
Those 13, just in case anyone is interested? They did not include Crispin Blunt. They did not include Theresa May. They did not include Owen Smith, Corbyn’s rival for the Labour leadership or Angela Eagle.."
Article from 2016
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"..Who kicked off the leadership challenge (she abstained).
But they did include @jeremycorbyn and John McDonnell.
That’s what many of us call leadership."
Article from 2016
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Remember this?
The news said it was 'russian misinformation'
" @jeremycorbyn offered..evidence that access to Britain’s state-run health service was being discussed in trade talks with the US, handing reporters 100s of pages of documents."
From 2019
reuters.com/article/uk-bri… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"See this 2017 interview in which Jeremy Corbyn confirms he was at a peace conference in
Tunis 4 years ago to remember those Palestinians & Tunisians killed in an Israeli air strike in 1985.
‘My whole life is about the search for peace’ @jeremycorbyn "
Source @LeftGrassroots
For the people who still repeat the lie that @jeremycorbyn
didn't campaign for remain.
Article from 2016
#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
#BrexitBrokeBritain
bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-pol…
"BBC asked @jeremycorbyn whether he was pulling his weight in the Remain campaign. What had happened to his Midas touch in mobilising the faithful? "What a strange question" said Corbyn
Before listing the many events in his impressively packed schedule"
theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
"I've been in parliament a long time&
I'm sick of hearing dormitory tales&public school hijinks in the tea room.
I'd much rather hear about people&the struggles they went through to become a nurse, an engineer, a teacher.
There's a massive disparity in education.." @jeremycorbyn
Clips from as long back as 1996.
In over 4 decades @jeremycorbyn's principles haven't changed.
He's fought for working people his entire life, and he cannot be bought or corrupted.
Which is why our billionaire establishment/media lie about him so much.
#Corbyn #LabourParty
"Corbyns voting record
💠6x against the Iraq war
💠7x for the hunting ban
💠12x for laws to promote human rights
💠23x for equal gay rights
💠16x against bedroom tax
💠5x for raising welfare with inflation
💠15x against disability cuts
💠47x against welfare cuts"@SocialistAnyDay
"Mural of Corbyn in London"
Source 👇🏻 @Jackiew80333500
(Original tweet embedded)
"Jeremy Corbyn has been a champion of decency and an ally to all movements fighting racism, colonialism, and exploitation.
As leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn not only spoke out about the ills of anti-Semitism in British society broadly."
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progressive.international/wire/2020-10-3…
"He ( @jeremycorbyn )also took the issue of anti-Semitism in his own party seriously, listening to the concerns of Jewish constituents and improving the process for investigating and sanctioning cases of anti-Semitism."
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progressive.international/wire/2020-10-3…
"As fierce opponents of anti-Semitism — and as an International that includes many Jewish members across the planet — we abhor the weaponization of Jewish pain against the project of socialism and the legacy of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in the United Kingdom."
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"The evidence of such efforts to weaponize the issue of anti semitism is clear.
The majority of the British public now believe that a 1/3 of @UKLabour members —a full 200,000 people —are the subject of anti-Semitism allegations.
The truth is less than 2,000, less than 0.3%.."
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"The campaign against the character of Jeremy Corbyn did not begin with the issue of anti-Semitism, & it will not end here.
A principled defence of the Jewish community demands that we distinguish between genuine appreciation of the community's pain.."
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progressive.international/wire/2020-10-3…
"..And cynical attempts to ride it toward political reaction.
We, members of the Progressive International, know that @jeremycorbyn is under attack because of his life-long fight to transform Britain, to dismantle empire, and to defend the rights to care, peace, and freedom."
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"We, members of the Progressive International, stand united in the defence of @jeremycorbyn, in defence of decency, and for the future of socialism in Britain and around the world."
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progressive.international/wire/2020-10-3…
*Signatories :
Celso Amorim
Former Foreign Minister of Brazil
Renata Ávila
International human rights lawyer
Alicia Castro
Former Ambassador of Argentina and Trade Union leader
Noam Chomsky
Laureate Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona"
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"Nikhil Dey
Founder-Member of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan(MKSS)
Srećko Horvat
Co-Founder, DiEM25
Scott Ludlam
Former Senator Australian Greens
J McDonnell
Member of Parliament for Hayes&Harlington
Vijay Prashad
Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research"
"Aruna Roy
Founder-Member, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)
Pierre Sané
Founder-President, Imagine Africa Institute
Ahdaf Soueif
Author, Founder of Palestinian Festival of Literature
Yanis Varoufakis
Member of the Hellenic Parliament and the Secretary-General of MeRA25"
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