OK, for absolute clarity, @JewishLabour have run @UKLabour’s Antisemitism training for two years. Often to hostile audiences, if at all. Too many times our offer of free training has been declined, or redefined as an opportunity to “debate” antisemitism. No way...
...We’re still waiting to hear back from the new General Secretary to meet and discuss our longstanding concerns, weeks after we were told we’d get an invite given #antisemitism was to be her #1 priority, and a week after we wrote to chase it...
...the NEC’s working Party on disciplinary issues relating #antisemitism took place this afternoon. @JewishLabour weren’t invited despite requests. We were not consulted over the date, attendees, agenda or format of next week’s ‘roundtable’...
...we moved a rule change that we hoped would unlock a conversation about due process, tariffs, representation and training all of which are vital...
...the NEC and the NCC have still yet to undergo @JewishLabour’s antisemitism training, despite numerous offers. I would know. *I am a member of the NCC...
...in the democracy review, we have still yet to have been given a categorical assurance that @JewishLabour’s affilite status won’t be watered down...
...@JewishLabour have been affiliated to the Labour Party for almost 100 years. It’s Our members are the ones knocking on doors wearing rosettes in places like Barnet getting shouted at by the same people we sit next to in Shul...
...we exist wihin the Party and the Community, getting abuse from both sides. Many of us are *on the ballot* in a few days. Some of us may well lose because of this situation...
...so let’s see what the next week actually produces, and how well the meeting between @jeremycorbyn @JLC_uk and @BoardofDeputies goes, because something needs to change quickly...
...and the flipping of responsibility for grip, action and leadership between Westminster and Victoria Street needs to end. Today.
