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Some notable stats: CST report 892 antisemitic incidents UK-wide in first 6 months of this year. The Labour Party recently reported 625 allegations against its members in the same period huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/corbyn-b…
Would be interesting to compare criteria of how @CST_UK defines an incident (is it any incident reported or is there further analysis?).
Labour number is allegations not findings, though for reference in last set of stats around a third of allegations led to a sanction or member leaving theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
One of the regular canards you hear over this issue is ‘labour antisemitism attitudes the same as average in population’ and so claims exaggerated, or ‘only 0.5% of membership’. But that ignores that these figures are reported *incidents* not attitudes
And it is quite striking that the number of incidents being reported in the small slice of the population which is Labour members (500k out of 65m) is almost as high as number of incidents reported to CST nationwide
