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Dave Rich
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Where to begin with today's revelations of Labour Party mendacity, incompetence and political corruption in their handling of antisemitism complaints? Let's start with the sheer dishonesty /1
Listen to the recording of Corbyn and his aide. Read the denials of interference. Then read the emails showing the exact opposite. The cynicism is breathtaking /2
thetimes.co.uk/article/27a911…
The system is overwhelmed. Complaints languish for months or years or are never dealt with at all. Last year Labour told Jewish community leaders they would fix the system. "Leave it with us", they said. One year on nothing has changed /3
Antisemites and conspiracy cranks have joined Labour, poisoned its internal discourse about Jews, Zionism and Israel and the party lets them stay /4
There's the wholly damaging and toxic role of Jewish Voice for Labour, in this case helping a member who thinks "Jewish Israelis" were behind 9/11. As long as they have the ear of the leadership this problem will only get worse /5
Why are so many conspiracy theorists attracted to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party anyway? It's a real mystery /6
Finally, look at these emails from two of Corbyn's closest aides: "This email originates external to The Labour Party network." That's one hell of a metaphor for everything that has led us to this point. Where is the old Labour Party? /End
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Dave Rich
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When I praised Momentum's recent video on antisemitism I warned that it opened the people involved up to charges of hypocrisy. Here's what I mean: two appalling tweets yesterday by the video's presenter, @michaeljswalker of Novara Media /1
I take these tweets to mean (a) most stories about Labour antisemitism are part of a malicious smear campaign from people who don't actually care about antisemitism but just want to stop people supporting Palestinians /2
(b) the reason people on the left should oppose antisemitism is to greater enable their support for Palestinians (ie not to support Jews against antisemitism or because they should oppose antisemitism anyway /3
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Dave Rich
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This is a great letter that tells us all we need to know about the Labour Party's antisemitism problem. Just look at some of the signatories... theguardian.com/politics/2019/… /1
Avi Shlaim thinks "Israeli propagandists deliberately, yes deliberately, conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism" to "muzzle critics of Israel" and "suppress free speech" aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio… /2
Shlaim thinks the antisemitism crisis in Labour "was manufactured to serve the ends of a right-wing faction within the Labour Party as well as those of the Israel lobby" - and the "Israel lobby" includes mainstream UK Jewish leadership bodies /3
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Dave Rich
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It is the official policy of Labour Against the Witchhunt, adopted at their recent conference, that "the Zionist lobby" wants to stop Corbyn becoming PM because "he cannot be relied upon to run capitalism in their interests." Spot the antisemitic conspiracy theory in that one /1
The policy was submitted by the LAW Steering Committee, whose chair is Jackie Walker. Next month the Labour Party will decide whether to expel her or not. Maybe they would like to take this into consideration /2
The policy was proposed in the debate by her fellow Steering Committee member Tony Greenstein, who was expelled from the Labour Party for antisemitic abuse. It appears that Glyn Secker of Jewish Voice for Labour also spoke in support of the motion /3
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Elizabeth Arif-Fear
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THREAD 1. Philip Rosenberg – Director of Public Relations at @BoardofDeputies talking on Argentinian radio re. #antisemitism and #Jewish-#Muslim relations in #UK and #France.
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THREAD 1/ You know what (as a non-Jew) what I'm really b sick of??? People claiming that #antisemitism in the #Labour party is exaggerated/made up. Which in itself is antisemitic - as you're basically saying that 99% of British Jews are liars who are trying to exploit politics
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Steve Cooke
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Labour Against the Witchhunt wouldn't even report a Nazi.

LAW have welcomed former MP Jim Sheridan's reinstatement by the party. He was suspended last summer over an #antisemitic statement he posted on Facebook. But LAW don't accept he did anything wrong in the first place. /1
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I've absolutely had it with this 24/7 #antisemitism news cycle, which is being weaponised by elements of the Labour party and the mainstream press to undermine the Labour party and its leadership... #TomWatson
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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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