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EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Corbyn hosted an event in parliament comparing the Israeli govt to the Nazis - on Holocaust Memorial Day. The 2010 event was part of a national tour called: "Never again for anyone - Auschwitz to Gaza" thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/j…
Corbyn booked the room and delivered the opening speech. The main talk was given by Hajo Meyer, an Auschwitz survivor who believed Israel was like the Nazis. Quotes include: “Judaism in Israel has been substituted by the Holocaust religion whose high priest is Elie Wiesel"
The meeting was also addressed by phone from Gaza by Haidar Eid, a Palestinian activist, who reportedly said: “The world was absolutely wrong to think that Nazism was defeated in 1945. Nazism has won because it has finally managed to Nazify the consciousness of its own victims.”
NB: the bit of the IHRA definition about when it is antisemitic to compare Israel to Nazism is one of the bits Labour has tweaked. Labour insist they have strengthened it. Asked if that therefore means the party will be investigating Corbyn, a Labour source declined to comment
Confronted by The Times tonight, Jeremy Corbyn said he disagreed with the speakers’ views and ***apologised*** for “concerns and anxiety” caused. I think this is new language.
Safe to say the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is unimpressed
Kudos to those who have spent the past three years putting in hard yards checking out stuff the possible next PM did when he was an obscure backbencher. @EquusontheBuses is well worth a follow
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A-Z of #LabourAntisemitism to be used when @jeremycorbyn supporters & @UKLabour members try to tell you there is no antisemitism in their party!

Many of these abhorrent racists have been let off by Labour, are free to peddle their revolting views about Jews to the public.
1: Alan Bull, who was selected by @uklabour as a candidate, in the full knowledge he is a Holocaust denier. He was supported by @PeoplesMomentum Director Shawcroft.
2: Afzal Khan, then an @uklabour MEP and now the MP for Manchester Gorton, compared "Israel to Nazis". No disciplinary action was taken. telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/1…
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.@jeremycorbyn is suggesting he will 'trade' the remaining IHRA 'examples' in order to continue to omit 'Israel as a racist endeavour' from the list. A thread about why this 'Israel oriented' example is so fundamental to him and also unacceptable to Jews jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/corbyn-ready-t…
Zionism is movement created by Jews, for Jews. Their authentic conception of Zionism is as a movement for legitimate national self-determination for Jews, realised in a homeland in Israel. It is simple. Any non-Jew who believes in this idea is also a Zionist.
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If you are still implying that the Times' story about Corbyn's Never Again talk is a load of anti-Corbyn nonsense, it was a Holocaust survivor who said that stuff about Israel and Corbyn was merely the surprised, helpless, innocent onlooker, the problem is you
The talk was part of a tour called Never Again - from Auschwitz to Gaza, and it was booked on Holocaust Memorial Day. So if Corbyn was surprised by what Hajo Mayer said just wait until someone tells him what the event he chaired was called.
This was Corbyn's response to the Times' story: "The main speaker at this Holocaust Memorial Day meeting, part of a tour entitled Never Again — for Anyone, was a Jewish Auschwitz survivor. Views were expressed at the meeting which I do not accept or condone."
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1. Ahad voted against permission for a new @marksandspencer store because he felt that M&S are "Zionists who kill Palestinians" Dipu is quite unpleasant, he also hounded the members of the Holocaust Memorial Day org so badly, the Jewish members walked out chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…
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1) Today we start with a long thread, detailing the Labour Councillors and Officers who have made antisemitic racist claims. Note that these are NOT rank and file members, but, people in authority.
2) Ahad voted against permission for a new @marksandspencer store because he felt that M&S are "Zionists who kill Palestinians". Dipu is quite unpleasant, he also hounded the members of the Holocaust Memorial Day org so badly, the Jewish members walked out chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…
3) Lord Ahmed, blamed a "Jewish Conspiracy" for his imprisonment for a fatal motorway crash. Ahmed resigned from @UKLabour But, he is still in the house of Lords. thetimes.co.uk/article/muslim…
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Two serving Jewish Labour councillors have spoken out for the first time to expose the “extraordinary” levels of “institutional anti-semitism” in Momentum’s Haringey heartland in north London - thread 👇

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