Going by the first few pages, the #FordeReport is going to say 'A plague on both your houses'.
This paragraph seems fair enough to me. The Leaked Report did indeed confirm the problem of antisemitism in the Party, which its readership often overlooked.
This also seems reasonable.
Forde, page 21.
From page 24
Page 30
This was my impression when I read Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire's book 'Left Out'.
Sorry it's such a long thread but people have been saying 'Where's the Forde Report?' so...
This bit's interesting.
The Report strives to be even-handed and, so far, I think it is.
To the charge that Labour HQ staff sabotaged the 2017 GE, the report says No.
In connection with the nasty messages about Diane Abbott, a perceptive paragraph imo.
My impression is that the Report strives to be emollient while criticizing factionalism from different quarters. There is a danger of it pleasing nobody.
I've heard innumerable times from friends who are or were Party members about this happening in CLPs.
Naturally, I'm reading the report through my J-lenses, & this is the first objectionable paragraph I've found. I'll say why in a following tweet.
While JVL are entitled to organize as an anti Zionist group, the denial of antisemitism in their group - justifying eg the views of Chris Williamson & David Miller - makes them unfit to be involved in training about antisemitism. My blog post, 2019: neviimtovim.com/2019/08/05/the…
The problem of bilateral factional toxicity is a motif running through the Forde Report.
The Report concludes with a number of recommendations for good practice within the Labour Party.
Personally, I'm done with Labour. Let them fix their problems and geyn gezunt.
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1/ An MP posted that it wouldn't be racist for a doctor to refuse to treat a Zionist. He reasons that this would be politics rather than race. If a doctor refused to treat a member of the Reform Party or a Conservative voter, a tax lawyer, the manager of a branch of McDonald's...
2/...a journalist from The Telegraph, a rabbi, a priest, an imam, a trans-person, a transphobic person - would that be reasonable? Would there be forms to fill in, before surgery?
3/ Btw, Yahya Sinwar was treated successfully for cancer in an Israeli hospital. Maybe they shouldn't have?
Try it like this. Jews in the UK get attacked by people screaming about Israel. We use the antisemitism word. They tell us it isn't antisemitism as the antagonists cited Israel as their reason for attacking Jewish kids in Edgware.
When I tweet about these events, as I do most days, there's often someone who says it wouldn't happen - if only I would stop 'killing children'. I know that gets said also to any other Jewish person who tweets on these matters. If I stop killing & conflating, will they lay off?
1/ I'm doing a short thread called 'Corbynists talk about Keir Starmer's wife.' Why? Because these people who deny antisemitism have no idea how to recognize it.
1/ Asa Winstanley of Electronic Intifada has a book out, 'Weaponizing Antisemitism.' I see it's recommended not only by Jackie Walker but also Rita Allison, admin of 'Truthers against Zionist Lobbies'.
2/ I rarely look at Truthers these days, due to the queasiness of seeing their neonazism entwined with their avowed humanitarian concern for Palestinians, in other words, the far right masked up as the moderate left.
However, this is their schtick.
3/ Truthers used a cover picture of Jeremy Corbyn but were so intensely antisemitic that the authors of the Leaked Report (April 2020) considered them beyond the pale.
In one respect, they're on the right track: they are indeed extremely frightening, for several reasons.
Their beliefs are frightening. They believe that Mo Mowlam & Jeremy together achieved peace in N Ireland; that JC could be PM by Xmas; that Keir expelled JC because JC is against antisemitism; that Jeremy's popularity is so great, only a cunning conspiracy stopped him being PM...
...and you don't need me to tell you whom they suspect of being the conspirators.
1/ I'm often the recipient of not particularly friendly tweets from people with 'It was a scam' as their logo, alongside the pro Corbyn hashtag on their Twitter bio.
A thought follows.
2/ 2017: many people found Corbyn refreshingly unspun, honest, sensible & good-hearted.
By 2019, he had showed a curmudgeonly side & his reputation was tainted due to his past association with terrorists & antisemites.
2020: No longer leader, he displayed resentment towards...
3/..his successor and blamed his electoral failures on a campaign against him by bad faith players. It became axiomatic among his supporters to identify these as the PLP, the media, Jewish organizations & Israel. The latter, found daily among Corbynist supporters, crystallized...