1 year ago @jeremycorbyn was unjustly suspended by the LP for a measured, honest response to the EHRC Report. Starmer and the msm put the perverse spin on it that Corbyn had said that "antisemitism was exaggerated". He said nothing of the sort. 1/7
He said: "Anyone claiming there is no antisemitism in the LP is wrong... and sometimes it is voiced by people who think of themselves as on the left." But he rightly exonerated the vast bulk of LP members from the disgusting stain of being unjustly accused of antisemitism. 2/7
Corbyn said that "the scale of the problem" was "dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media." Many Jewish LP members and constituents agree, and wrote to newspapers+on social media to say so. 3/7
Corbyn called for the Report’s recommendations to be implemented re processes, but did not accept all of its findings. He's not the only one. The report relies on an elastic+unconvincing concept of "harassment" and imprecise comments on party "culture" unbacked by evidence. 4/7
Starmer called the report "a day of shame" but made no comment when a few days later a Joint Parl Ctte slammed the EHRC for internal+external failures re racial equality. No comment either when women condemned an EHRC "whitewash" of gender pay discrimination at the BBC. 5/7
Neither did Starmer commen on a set of very dubious EHRC appointments condemned by anti-racists. All these events were within days/weeks of the "damning" EHRC Report on Labour+Antisemitism. This silence is damning. Why should proponents of equality have any faith in the EHRC? 6/7
An NEC panel rightly overturned Corbyn's suspension but Starmer then removed the LP whip from him. This was an act of weakness, not strength. Nearly 35,000 constituents voted for Corbyn to continue being their Labour MP in 2019. It's time to listen to them. #RestoreTheWhip 7/7
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