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Adam Wagner
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I’m torn. As a remainer I want to do everything to block Brexit completely.

But as a remainer I also want to support constructive attempts, if Brexit is going to happen, to reach as soft a Brexit as possible.

These two positions are irreconcilable though!
I find these two motivations working against each other when considering Corbyn's letter.

I don't want Labour to facilitate Brexit, if 'no Brexit' is possible.

But I also want Labour to fight for a soft Brexit, if Brexit is inevitable.
Perhaps what I really want is for Labour's Brexit policy to directed by Keir Starmer, who I trust to square this circle, as opposed to Corbyn/Milne/Murray who I really don't.
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Adam Wagner
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Human Rights Watch has been studiously silent about what one mighy think was an important human rights issue - antisemitism in the UK. Breaks it’s silence by promoting this story.
As a UK human rights lawyer I am pretty ashamed about this TBH
I have raised this before with the UK branch of Human Rights Watch explicitly. To no avail.
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Adam Wagner
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The "antisemitism is bad but, let's be honest, this is complicated" arguments over @lucianaberger are clever but rather beside the point.

Labour has a problem with antisemitism which it has manifestly failed to address.

Luciana is a lightening rod for Labour antisemitism.
The CLP motions refer to her criticising Corbyn.

She has criticised Corbyn over antisemitism.

Perhaps motivations are mixed. Frankly, who cares?

She & others rightly sought answers from the NEC , and NEC refused to give them.

The motions of no confidence followed.
Zoom out.

A culture of victimisation has built up such that it can't safely be assumed that:

- a Jewish MP won't be targeted for being Jewish

- the leadership will protect her.

And because she is not a Corbynite there is plausible deniability to allow for clever arguments
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Adam Wagner
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It was an obviously bad decision for Labour to appoint someone to the sensitive independent counsel role who had strong links to the parts of the Labour movement which was most likely to be accused of antisemitism.
I do not know Gordon Nardell QC and have no reason to doubt his integrity or competence. But, had Labour taken the ‘independent’ aspect seriously, it would have appointed someone with *no* links to the key players in the Corbyn movement.
If Gordon Nardell QC was a judge appearing in a case involving Labour antisemitism in court, he would be recused from considering it due to ‘apparent bias’, as he has close links to McDonnell etc and has previously opined on cases. Not actual bias, but the result is the same
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