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Labour’s peers have collectively written to @jeremycorbyn savaging the party’s handling of antisemitism. See attached and - “Until the people making the decisions about discipline and expulsions accept as antisemitic words and...
actions viewed by the Jewish community as antisemitic nothingwill change and the crisis will continue”. The Labour lords ask question about whether former Communist Andrew Murray has been involved in influencing decisions about whether to punish alleged antisemites
This also devastating from Labour lords letter to @jeremycorbyn: “since our group meeting there has been the news of the investigation that has been instigated by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. I understand that the last time the EHRC took action...
“against a political party was when they investigated the BNP over its “whites-only” membership policy. For the Labour Party to be in this position is nothing short of humiliating and a matter of great shame”
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Sometimes I get things wrong. My understanding is that DUP MPs in general DO NOT see a return to direct rule in Northern Ireland as a threat, but (in the words of one) as "high time" for it. So when @michaelgove warns direct rule could be the consequence...
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Ragnorakishere
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In August 2018 Jim Sheridan a Labour Councillor was reported to the Labour Party for #Antisemitic comments. Sheridan stated that he had lost respect and empathy for the Jewish community.
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My earlier thread about Labour member John Pocock's Holocaust denialism arose from a Facebook discussion started by Redditch-based Alan Mason where the notion that we might have a problem with #antisemitism in the party was roundly dismissed. /1
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Steve Cooke
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Challenging #antisemitism can lead to hysterical counter-accusations that others with racist views are happy to endorse. After encountering Charles Harding, a #Labour member in Liverpool, dismissing concerns about a/s on Facebook, I accepted his challenge to provide examples. /1
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Robert Saunders
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As Labour prepares to discipline @margarethodge, here's a post I wrote in April on the culture of complacency, victim-blaming and self-congratulation that has marked the party's response to #Antisemitism. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2018/04/labour…
Too often, Labour has tried to silence those who complain rather than challenge the existence of abuse.
Too many on the Left see prejudice as a right-wing problem, of which the Left is incapable. The result is a culture of complacency that allows abuse to flourish.
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Marlon Solomon
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The sentiment is admirable but not sure Owen and other commentators in the pro-Corbyn world fully understand why there is a culture of #antisemitism denial. Few thoughts on this and what to think about moving forward. Long-ass thread 1/
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Also, the role new-left media has played in fostering an antisemitic culture has been overlooked 2/
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