Tonight was the worst Labour party meeting I have ever attended. A member accused me and others of being 'agents of a foreign power' as they proposed a motion attacking the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Me and a Jewish member spoke against the motion, but the motion passed.
Their motion claimed that there was 'no antisemitism in the Labour Party' and the proposers used multiple antisemitic tropes to make their point that the Board of Deputies is a 'Tory organisation' 'illegally interfering in the Labour leadership contest'
For the most part the Labour party needs to come back together and re-unite, but for people intent on being racist and supporting racists, there is only one answer: Racists of any kind have no place anywhere near the Labour party, nor any other mainstream political party.
The members who proposed the motion yesterday have now published it online, not including the comments they made alongside it, which were indistinguishable from the text of the motion, as no copies of the motion were provided to members at the meeting.
