These four posts will probably lose me a lot of followers.
Nonetheless:
The British Labour Party is institutionally racist. It refused yesterday to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism - which has been accepted by the UK and 30 other governments across the globe. /1
Nonetheless:
The British Labour Party is institutionally racist. It refused yesterday to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism - which has been accepted by the UK and 30 other governments across the globe. /1
The 1999 Macpherson report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence established that minorities are best placed to define what constitutes prejudice against them. /2
The new Labour ruling says in effect that this legal decision doesn’t apply to Jewish people, of whom there are barely a quarter of a million in the UK. /3
Which means that the Labour Party is in principle opposed to racism, but there’s a getout clause if you’re not especially fond of Jews.
So: if you vote for or support Labour, you’re colluding in racism. /4
So: if you vote for or support Labour, you’re colluding in racism. /4
