I mean what creates the conditions for a members to use the democratic tools of the Labour Party to pass an antisemitic motion promoting a conspiracy theory claiming the party's only Jewish affiliate has links to ISIS?
It takes perpetrators and bystanders who feel its fine.
They then face no sanction or condemnation from the leadership? I mean these people were given at best a cheeky wink to keep going and that its no problem. At worst it was endorsed by default through this unwillingness to police the borders of the left and take it on.m
Malice or cowardice. None of us will ever really know which. But it was only one of the two that allowed this catastrophic to occur in the British left under the stewardship of Jeremy Corbyn.
What creates the conditions for a situation where a Jewish mum raises concerns about Pete Willsman's rantings about Trump fanatics at a meeting and days later she wakes up to a Trump sign being left in her front garden. Direct victimisation and harrassment
thejc.com/news/uk/local-…
I mean its terrifying that her kids woke up to this. Being a parent now I would be terrified that antisemites knew where I lived. And its beyond coincidence as the local Momentum group tried to claim afterwards.
So enough with the self righteousness from outriders. Explain why these people joined the party. Why it was then tolerated until the point that it became a distraction & could no longer be controlled. Little of this was process. All of it was culture. Culture is set from the top.

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26 Oct
The problem here. As is in almost everything written from the so called left is that you never identify why this became a problem. It wasnt historically. Something changed. Something became the magnet for antisemites, fruitloops and cranks to join the Labour Party.
Until you grapple with that question everything else is pointless. Why were these people drawn to this politics you will keep making things worse. Holocaust deniers thought Labour was their home FFS.
You decided it was no longer politically important or convenient to police the borders of mainstream politics. Because ultimately you needed nasty local enforcers to help with the project. Fuck the consequences.
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24 Aug
Feel like I need to point out to some in the NW London echo chamber that there are also lots of Jews not well off *outside* of the Charedi community...
NE London Jewry is a good example (but not the only one).
Average career of many of my friends parents from when I was at King Solomon High School in Redbridge was cab driver, social worker, teacher etc... most were not lawyers, accountants etc...
NE London/Redbridge Jewish community was the largest UK community til about 20 yrs ago
Lots and lots of kids at King Solomon were on free school meals (including myself for a period). I remember seeing all those kids with the blue raffle tickets for their lunches.
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10 Jul
One year ago today BBC Panorama broadcast the testimony of a number of brave whistleblowers who had worked inside of the Labour Party on antisemitism cases. They felt morally compromised by an attempt by the then leadership to cover up racism in the party of anti-racism.
I have spent the best part of two years speaking to and working alongside these whistleblowers & many more who didn't go on camera to build a full picture of what went on to give to the EHRC. The testimony and extent of the cover up I read was harrowing.
theguardian.com/news/2019/jul/…
Despite the attempts to deny the testimony of these whistleblowers and more, at every single hurdle to date they have been vindicated under independent scrutiny.
🔷️ It passed BBC Editorial
🔷️ BBC Complaints Unit rejected all complaints
🔷️ Ofcom rejected all complaints.
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29 Jun
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I read this piece in Jacobin. Its really sloppy in key parts of it. It seems to rely on an implication that the EHRC are not impartial without any real evidence to back this up. Here is my view on why the EHRC has not investigated the Tories. Yet.
jacobinmag.com/2020/06/keir-s…
In the piece it goes very heavily on the EHRC for not investigating Islamophobia in the Conservative Party, and implies that the failure to do so almost invalidates its investigation into Labour antisemitism. Its an implication without any real basis.
None of this invalidates the very real stench of Islamophobia emanating from all sorts of corners from the Conservative Party but having helped put together JLM submissions and now reviewing the evidence from the MCB I can see why the EHRC couldn't launch an investigation.
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12 Apr
Over 70 whistleblowers. From staff at the beginning and at the end of the Corbyn era. Pre and post McNicol. Including staff who worked in JC & JF offices who broke ranks to help the EHRC.

Or briefed extracts of a report seemingly attempting to lay the blame at 2 individuals.
I don't think anyone has ever denied that factional rubbish in the Labour Party played a role in allowing the spread of antisemitism to occur. It created fertile ground. It gave people permission to dismiss it as just politics. Which seems to be exactly what is happening here.
But ultimately when you are in charge, you take responsibility for what happens on your watch. It's quite clear that for those people in charge, the easy escape was to blame the issues on factionalism rather than accept the evidence right in front of them.
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4 Apr
I've said it before. But people need to differentiate between the crank left & the left. The crank left and Momentum (left) put up opposing candidates in the NEC by election.
Whilst too often Momentum enabled the crank left, and for that many can never forgive them. 1/
Those sensible parts of the left need to make up for their past errors. They now have a job to do. What's left of Momentum (the sane left) need to take the lead in purging the crank left bigots, conspiracists and antisemites from the party. /2
It is their responsibility more than anyone's. They played with fire knowing the sort of bigots who existed in their spaces. They used those bigots for political ruthlessness & organisation. They brought the extreme left racists and conspiracists into the mainstream. /3
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