Agree with this. It’s a shame that there are a number of key factual errors (see also my TL) as they are important to the arguments and this is a very sensitive area.
Just to highlight a few more errors: This para refers to AIPAC as the "American-Jewish Public Affairs Committee". It stands for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Bad in the context of justifying referring it to as the "Jewish lobby" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_…) 
This is wrong. Israel does not "grant citizenship to all members of its diaspora whether they want it or not". The true position is that anyone with a Jewish grandparent has the right to apply for citizenship. This error is bad in the context of a discussion over dual loyalties..
.. as it (inadvertently) repeats what I think is fairly described as a conspiracy theory - certainly it's one that has been put to me a few times during this debate - that all Jews are also citizens of Israel and therefore *automatically* have potential dual loyalties.
You can read the true position on this Israeli government website. Nb. in law you only have citizenship once you have it formally. Saying you have a right to claim it and that you have it are two very different things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_…
I can't read the original French judgment but the description in the opinion of the CICAD case is quite different to the write-up on Inforrm, which suggests the court was careful not to delve into the definition of antisemitism. Can't say for sure though inforrm.org/2016/07/27/cas…
As @YairWallach points out (with more knowledge of the region than I), this section is problematic. e.g.
- Israel was not established by the UN Security Council (see attached from Wikipedia)
- A "small minority" of Jewish settlers was in fact a third, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph…
- Israel was not established by the UN Security Council (see attached from Wikipedia)
- A "small minority" of Jewish settlers was in fact a third, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph…
- There are not 9 million Arab Israelis, there are around 1.5m (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citi…)
- Hamas is a political organisation but also has a terrorist wing, proscribed as one in the UK and in many other countries en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internati…
- Hamas is a political organisation but also has a terrorist wing, proscribed as one in the UK and in many other countries en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internati…
I know the last few tweets will lead to arguments over the details (on which I am not an expert) but I have limited the above are obvious errors, unless you quibble over "small minority". And since they are used to justify this statement I think it is important to point them out
I am not trying to attack the author as some may be as I don't think that is helpful. The errors are important and I hope that Geoffrey Robertson QC takes the opportunity before Tuesday's NEC vote to correct them and say whether he has altered his position as a result.
Can anyone help with the source of this statement? I have scanned the Home Affairs Select Committee report and can't find a reference to comparative antisemitism statistics but I may have missed it or it may be somewhere else (publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cm…). Thanks
This is the closest I can get to the statement
