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In terms of the debate on social media, the report is devastating. It demolishes every defence. It upholds the accuracy of Panorama and the complaints. It directly finds a failure of leadership.
Political interference is clear. There is no basis for asserting that this was the fault of individual employees. That is patently untrue. If Karie "I'm proud" Murphy is really proud then she is proud of this.
The Party did not take responsibility for the casual antisemitism of too many of its members on social media.
And this conduct IS antisemitism - making it clear that the sealioners and gaslighters with whom so many of us have dealt for so long are bad actors.
@JewishLabour is triumphantly vindicated. The complaints that it was an Israeli front, Tory, or simply lying are exposed as lies. Those who told those lies should now be expelled.
What's more, @JewishLabour's complaint about training are completely justified & upheld. The yevsektsiya @JVoiceLabour, set up to be tame Jews for Corbyn are disregarded. As JLM said, the acceptable (IHRA sceptical) training course offered by Birkbeck is not fit for this purpose
The explanations the then leadership offered are clearly dubious. The leaked report is the dampest of damp squibs. Those who complained about its "suppression" are shown to be fools at best. No doubt Unite members will be interested in their leader's statements on this issue.
Repeated failures to deal with antisemitism are pointed out. The gap between the proclaimed values of the clique that took over the Labour Party and true @UKLabour values could not be clearer. That extends to the behaviour of those at the very top. Those people should be expelled
This failure to deal with antisemitism is the fault of the man at the top. He authorised political interference - how else could it have been tolerated? He appointed the failures. He was personally involved. And he could have done so much better. The report is clear.
There's no wriggle room. The clique are guilty of lack of care & disregarding Jews.
The outriders who backed them are wrong, can't face the truth & disregarded Jews.
The members who said they weren't antisemitic were wrong, ignorant & poorly educated by the Party.
Vindication.
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