Thread by @TimesCorbyn

In 1984, Corbyn sponsored and co-chaired the Labour Movement Conference on Palestine.

Which called on 'Labour Movement bodies to press for the disaffiliation of Poale Zion (@JewishLabour) from the Labour Party.'
& to break all links with Histadrut (Israeli Trade Union) 1/6

@JewishLabour Its platform included:

'to eradicate Zionism'

'Solidarity with the PLO'

'opposition to the Zionist state as racist, exclusivist and direct agency of imperialism'

'Opposition to the manifestation of Zionism in the Labour Movement & the Labour Party in particular' 2/6

@JewishLabour Little wonder that the Spectator named Corbyn and Livingstone behind a purge of Jews from the Labour Party and Poale Zion member Peter Bradley wrote this damning article on why 'Labour is losing its Jews' (Times 7 Mar 1985), which everyone should read. 3/6

https://twitter.com/TimesCorbyn/status/1190931812354318337

@JewishLabour A few highlights:

'According to some estimates, no more than 40% if British Jews currently support the Labour Party - compared with about 75% in years following the Second World War.'

I think thanks to Corbyn the figure now stands at less than 10%. 4/6

@JewishLabour 'For in almost all sections of the "progressive" left, Jews claim they are being made to feel they are welcome only if they are at least non-Zionist, and preferably sufficiently anti-Zionist to be paraded as token Jews who dispel all suspicion of antisemitism.' 5/6

@JewishLabour 'Jews in the Labour Party along with a great many others, are calling for a reassertion of Labour's tradition of tolerance, reason and understanding.'

Impossible under Corbyn and co. 6/6
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