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🚨EXCLUSIVE: A new whistleblower, Tim Dexter, who left Labour complaints unit 3 months ago, tells me
- Corbyn aides seized control of antisemitism cases in March
- Karie Murphy's HR team "spied" on staff with internal software
- Staff routinely "disappeared" due to breakdowns
Tim Dexter, 26, a former Corbyn voter, left Labour HQ "traumatised" and "depressed". He says that Corbyn aides arrived this year to give him "support" - but instead took on hundreds of anti-semitism cases and abruptly moved to a different area of the office. (1/5)
He says that Karie Murphy's HR department "spied" on staff, writing emails demanding to know why individuals had searched for particular phrases or terms, often relating to anti-semitism. Staff were "paranoid" and felt "someone was looking at you at all times" (2/5)
Dexter says Thomas Gardiner, Corbyn ally & head of the governance + legal
🔥Had personal sign off on ALL anti-semitism complaints from 2018
🔥 De-authorised staff from advising on whether to suspend racists
🔥 Said a zero tolerance approach to antisemitism is"ridiculous" 3/5
Dexter says of his time at Labour HQ: "It puts you in a dark place. You feel guilty. All these racists getting away with it. You feel complicit in something bad that is going on. Relationships break down. You don't feel you can be a positive person." 4/5
🚨 He has now submitted his testimony and evidence to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. He believes that Labour is "institutionally racist" and that Jews are right to feel "distressed and disturbed". MORE interviews, reads and videos in tomorrow's Sunday Times (5/5)
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Gabriel Pogrund
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REVEALED: The agony of young brides brought to Britain as "wombs for rent" - then taken back to Pakistan and abandoned like used commodities. Seven pages of investigation and reaction in today's @TheSTMagazine
The women have not seen their children in years. Nadia Husain, 37, in Rawalpindi, said: "My husband doesn't let me talk to my boys. He says mummy is crazy, mummy doesnt love you." She last saw them 12 years ago. The Home Office won't let her come back to Britain to fight for them
In Lahore, Saba showed me the remants of her old life with her children in east London: an Oyster card, an Iceland bonus card and three Sure Start library cards for her children, who she may never see again.
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Gabriel Pogrund
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🚨 SCOOP: Corbyn's chief of staff Karie Murphy dismissed an investigation into bullying and inappropriate behaviour towards young women by Pete Willsman, saying she would "have a word" instead. The woman never received a response to her complaint thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…
The young woman accused Willsman, then on Labour's National Executive Committee [NEC], of demanding to know where she lived, whether she liked clubbing — and sending texts saying he was in his pyjamas. He "refused" to leave her alone. She reported similar conduct to other women
Here is Karie Murphy's extraordinary response, in which she says the complaint alleged only "unprofessional" behaviour by Willsman and "minor references to him being over familiar". She said: "I am sure someone having a word with PW would easily correct this."
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Gabriel Pogrund
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🚨 Here is the letter suspending David Prescott as Labour member - banning him from party meetings and disqualifying him as a party candidate. But it never got sent.
Labour's exec director, governance and legal director and complaints chief all agreed to suspend Prescott as it was the "safest" option for young women and would stop any "aggressive" behaviour at future meetings as an investigation into claims took place. Karie Murphy blocked it
Here's the letter. According to those involved, that was it. No investigation. MP later chose not to proceed with complaint. Prescott was readmitted to work two weeks later
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Steve Cooke
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THREAD: Is #antisemitism a trick?

1/ The video of Israeli politician Shulamit Aloni describing allegations of antisemitism as a 'trick' used to silence critics of Israel is often cited in exchanges about Jew-hatred in the Labour Party. But does it shed any light on the matter?
2/ In the 2002 interview, the former government minister was asked by Amy Goodman: "Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called antisemitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew?"
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David Collier
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Lets go on a UK tour of @UKLabour's #antisemitism:

We start in Torbay, in the Beautiful South-West, where *3* Labour *candidates* have just been suspended over antisemitism - some of their foul posts even included claims Jews wanted to kill all non-Jews
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Move along the south coast to Brighton, where another council candidate, Alex Braithwaite has just been suspended for sharing 'abhorrent' posts like promoting Rothschild conspiracy or saying the BBC is controlled by Israel. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
In Kent, Jackie Walker was finally expelled - after three years of incompetence, delays and back-tracking. Three years to rid itself of someone not just suspended over antisemitism, but openly touring the UK - ridiculing the whole thing as a 'witchhunt'. thejc.com/news/uk-news/a…
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Steve Cooke
@Steve_Cooke
Mansfield CLP member Roland Laycock insists that we have no problem with #antisemitism in @UKLabour. He reckons it's just a smear campaign and believes that the Jewish people raising concerns about it never criticise austerity or Tory policies. /1
Roland Laycock is keen to promote the Labour Party, which, as a fellow activist myself, isn't something I would normally criticise. He supports the #PeoplesVote campaign and signed the letter calling for a second referendum on EU membership published in today's Observer. /2
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glyn harries 🌹
@hackneyglyn
#thread on @UKLabour NEC Code Conduct on #Antisemitism showing how opposition to it is wrong. Links from Dr Brian Klug, Moran Mandelbaum, David Feldman, Josh Nathan Kazis on Kenneth Stern, Rhea Wolfson, Jennie Formby and Jo Lansman
Firstly this is the NEC code here. Please read. It covers conspiracy theory antisemitism, the 'socialism of fools' and antisemitism masquerading as criticism of Israel. These are the issues that have crept into Labour from the conspiracy theory fringes. thejc.com/comment/analys…
Jon Lansman @jonlansman states the new code is "Labour’s antisemitism code is the gold standard for political parties .. The new code makes clear that discrimination against Jewish people is unacceptable while allowing for legitimate criticism of Israel " theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Marlon Solomon
@supergutman
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/
Lots of articles, some useful podcasts from some of the pro-Corbyn commentariat on left antisemitism but three words noticeably absent from the debate. Jewish. Labour. Movement.

Also, the role new-left media has played in fostering an antisemitic culture has been overlooked 2/
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Anti-Nazis United
@AntiNazisUnited
The noises coming out of #Labour on racism towards Jews (let us call it that) are increasingly hollow.
Let's not even talk about the 1000s of oddballs in & around Labour, who rant on about "Zionists", etc like UKIPers talk about "immigrants", but we know where both are pointing.

One is profiled here in detailed (& mostly ignored by Labour "radicals")

antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/he-…
I asked this question ages ago, with no satisfactory answer:

Labour members, do you like antisemitism or Holocaust denial? Can you spot it?
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