- 26 Mar 2018 13:31
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Labour finished its internal report(PDF) against antisemitism under which action was taken against the alleged antisemites, but for Jewish leaders and certain Labour MP's that action was evidently not enough. The current row comes due to a street mural that artist Mear One painted back in 2012 that has since been removed; back then Jeremy Corbyn saw the artists message on facebook in which he was complaining that his mural was marked for removal and defended him by saying:
His facebook message resurfaced a couple of days and Corbyn issued an apology:
His apology resulted in the following furious letter by British Jews:
Labour MP John Mann said that Labour will not survive if it fails to tackle antisemitism:
Chuka Umunna echoed those feelings:
....while Chris Mullin who is a former Labour Minister took a different view:
CAA report shows conclusively that Tory voters are far more anti-Semitic than Labour voters
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Jeremy Corbyn wrote:“Why? You are in good company. Rockerfeller [sic] destroyed Diego Viera’s [sic] mural because it includes a picture of Lenin.”
His facebook message resurfaced a couple of days and Corbyn issued an apology:
Jeremy Corbyn wrote:“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.”
His apology resulted in the following furious letter by British Jews:
Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council wrote:Today, leaders of British Jewry tell Jeremy Corbyn that enough is enough. We have had enough of hearing that Jeremy Corbyn “opposes antisemitism”, whilst the mainstream majority of British Jews, and their concerns, are ignored by him and those he leads.
There is a repeated institutional failure to properly address Jewish concerns and to tackle antisemitism, with the Chakrabarti report being the most glaring example of this.
Jeremy Corbyn did not invent this form of politics, but he has had a lifetime within it, and now personifies its problems and dangers. He issues empty statements about opposing anti-Semitism, but does nothing to understand or address it.
We conclude that he cannot seriously contemplate antisemitism, because he is so ideologically fixed within a far left worldview that is instinctively hostile to mainstream Jewish communities.
When Jews complain about an obviously antisemitic mural in Tower Hamlets, Corbyn of course supports the artist. Hezbollah commits terrorist atrocities against Jews, but Corbyn calls them his friends and attends pro-Hezbollah rallies in London. Exactly the same goes for Hamas.
Raed Salah says Jews kill Christian children to drink their blood. Corbyn opposes his extradition and invites him for tea at the House of Commons. These are not the only cases. He is repeatedly found alongside people with blatantly antisemitic views, but claims never to hear or read them.
Again and again, Jeremy Corbyn has sided with antisemites rather than Jews. At best, this derives from the far left’s obsessive hatred of Zionism, Zionists and Israel. At worst, it suggests a conspiratorial worldview in which mainstream Jewish communities are believed to be a hostile entity, a class enemy.
When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour party, Jews expressed sincere and profound fears as to how such politics would impact upon their wellbeing. Our concerns were never taken seriously. Three years on, the party and British Jews are reaping the consequences.
Routine statements against antisemitism “and all forms of racism” get nowhere near dealing with the problem, because what distinguishes antisemitism from other forms of racism is the power that Jews are alleged to hold, and how they are charged with conspiring together against what is good.
This is not only historic, or about what Jeremy Corbyn did before being party leader. It is also utterly contemporary. There is literally not a single day in which Labour party spaces, either online or in meetings, do not repeat the same fundamental anti-Semitic slanders against Jews.
We are told that our concerns are faked, and done at the command of Israel and/or Zionism (whatever that means); that anti-Semitism is merely “criticism of Israel”; that we call any and all criticism of Israel “anti-Semitic”; that the Rothschilds run the world; that ISIS terrorism is a fake front for Israel; that Zionists are the new Nazis; and that Zionists collaborate with Nazis.
Rightly or wrongly, those who push this offensive material regard Jeremy Corbyn as their figurehead. They display an obsessive hatred of Israel alongside conspiracy theories and fake news. These repeated actions do serious harm to British Jews and to the British Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn is the only person with the standing to demand that all of this stops. Enough is enough.
Labour MP John Mann said that Labour will not survive if it fails to tackle antisemitism:
John Mann wrote:If [Corbyn] is incapable of dealing with this problem now, then the Labour party is not going to survive ...
He is not going to be prime minister of this country if he does not lead and sort this problem ... If he can’t sort this problem now, he will not be the prime minister of this country, we will not be in power. And, frankly, the Labour party has an even bigger crisis than that because this is about the actual existence of the Labour party. The Labour party was formed to deal with prejudice and discrimination. It’s been in our DNA through our 100 and more years’ history. If he fails to deal with this, then he destroys the very essence of the Labour party.
Chuka Umunna echoed those feelings:
....while Chris Mullin who is a former Labour Minister took a different view:
CAA report shows conclusively that Tory voters are far more anti-Semitic than Labour voters
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EN EL ED EM ON
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...