Thread by @JLC_uk

Thread: One year ago, over two thousand people gathered outside Parliament for an unprecedented demonstration. (1/12)
#EnoughIsEnough

For a minority community to protest the leadership of the official party of opposition against its handling of racism towards them is something we have still not managed to comprehend. (2/12)
#EnoughIsEnough

The Labour Party is meant to be a party imbued in social justice and which prides itself on its anti-racist credentials. Its party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, calls himself “a militant opponent of antisemitism”. (3/12)
#EnoughIsEnough

The initial trigger for the demonstration had been the refusal of Mr Corbyn to oppose a blatantly antisemitic mural which had appeared in East London. However, the anguish of British Jews went much deeper than that. (4/12)
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When we assembled outside Parliament with megaphones and placards at only 24 hours’ notice, we hoped it would be sufficient to spur the Labour Party into action. (5/12)
#EnoughIsEnough

The @BoardofDeputies and Jewish Leadership Council wrote to Mr Corbyn with a number of simple steps that Labour could take to regain the confidence of the Jewish community. (6/12)
#EnoughIsEnough

Mr Corbyn met us. He promised to take action. Yet one year on the crisis of antisemitism in Labour is not only unsolved, it is worse. (7/12)
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To add insult to injury, we have since discovered that the leader’s office intervened in cases of alleged antisemitism, something we were explicitly told was *not* the case. (8/12)
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Since last year, those who have stood up bravely to anti-Jewish racism in the Labour party have been vilified and trolled by people who claim allegiance with Mr Corbyn, while a number of those suspended for antisemitism have been readmitted to the party. (9/12)
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Things have reached the stage where Labour’s own MPs have demanded that the leadership account for their action (more accurately inaction) on antisemitism. Things have got so bad, the Equality & Human Rights Commission may formally investigate the party. (10/12)
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Yet still there is no action from the Labour leadership. There is no other community being blamed by Labour members for the very racism which is being directed at them. (11/12)
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Labour has promised to eradicate this racist poison from the party, but we have seen no evidence of progress. A year ago we said “Enough is Enough”. We said that we needed to see action rather than words. We are still waiting. (Ends)
#EnoughIsEnough