A mirror of a https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/post by https://www.reddit.com/user/G5PS on 13th November 2018

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/9wj998/labour_antisemitism_an_overview/

Labour anti-Semitism

Jeremy Corbyn said he was ‘sincerely sorry’ for the pain that had been caused to the Jewish community by anti-Semitism in ‘pockets’ within the Labour Party which hasn’t been enough to stop protesters, including party colleagues to deny that it’s an issue at all and that allegations of anti-Semitism aren’t always a Zionist smear attempting to keep Corbyn out of number 10. Corbyn has spoken of Labour’s commitment to “eradicating the social cancer of antisemitism” and recognised “deep concern and pain” across the party over the loss of confidence among Jewish communities. So people can judge for themselves the size of the ‘pockets’ below is a list of alleged incidents of anti-Semitism with the relevant sources.

Jeremy Corbyn had a ten-year association with a group which denied the Holocaust. Mr Corbyn was a ‘stalwart’ supporter of Deir Yassin Remembered, attending events in 2013, with the group’s founder, Paul Eisen, a self-professed Holocaust denier.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/20/jeremy-corbyns-10-year-association-group-denies-holocaust/

Jeremy Corbyn held a private meeting with a Holocaust denier in Parliament and failed to disclose it when quizzed by a Home Affairs select committee inquiry into anti-Semitism. The meeting with Deir Yassin Remembered (DYR), run by Holocaust denier and notorious anti-Semite Paul Eisen, took place in 2014, one year before Mr Corbyn was elected Labour leader.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6115547/Jeremy-Corbyn-accused-misleading-Parliament-holding-private-meeting-Holocaust-denier.html

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/revealed-jeremy-corbyn-attended-event-hosted-by-holocaust-denier-s-group-in-2013-1.68163

Jeremy Corbyn said British ‘Zionists’ have ‘no sense of English irony despite having lived here all their lives’ and ‘need a lesson’, while giving speech alongside Islamic extremists at a conference publicised by Hamas’ military wing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6087783/Jeremy-Corbyn-said-British-Zionists-no-sense-English-irony.html

Jeremy Corbyn was present and actively involved at a wreath-laying memorial for individuals behind the group that carried out the Munich Olympic massacre. He defended himself by stating that ‘I was present at wreath-laying but don’t think I was involved’ despite their being numerous photographs of him holding the wreath.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-not-involved-munich-olympics-massacre-wreath-laying

Jeremy Corbyn called antisemitic terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah ‘our friends’ when inviting them to speak in Parliament. He claimed the invitation to Hezbollah was ‘absolutely the right function of using parliamentary facilities’ and that the group was committed to ‘social justice and political justice’. Corbyn later said this was ‘inclusive language I used, which with hindsight I would rather not have used’.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/04/jeremy-corbyn-says-he-regrets-calling-hamas-and-hezbollah-friends

Jeremy Corbyn hosted an Islamic cleric Dyab Abou Jahjah, banned from the UK by the Home Office on the grounds of extremism in Parliament in 2009, who in 2006 wrote that ‘Europe has made political correctness, the cult of the Holocaust and Jew-worshipping its alternative religion’. Corbyn denied having ever met Dyab Abou Jahjah, but quickly changed his mind and stated he had met him in 2009.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/20/dyab-abou-jahjah-arab-extremist-problems-jeremy-corbyn

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/19/jeremy-corbyn-backtracks-over-claim-he-had-never-met-lebanese-activist

Corbyn came to the defence of Sheikh Raed Salah, who revived the medieval anti-Semitic ‘blood libel’ slur that Jews cook with children’s blood. Salah was arrested by British police in 2011 when he was due to speak at an event in the House of Commons — alongside Corbyn. In 2012 Corbyn called Salah ‘a very honoured citizen’.

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/189057251745603586?lang=en

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3191679/Jeremy-Corbyn-caught-video-calling-Muslim-hate-preacher-honoured-citizen-inviting-tea-terrace-House-Commons.html

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/salah-corbyn/

In December 2016, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attended the book launch of — and posed for pictures with — Hatem Bazian, organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (the IHRC). Bazian later apologised for anti-Semitic tweets where he shared a picture of an ultra-orthodox Jewish man with the message: ‘Mom, look! I is chosen! I can now kill, rape, smuggle organs and steal the land of Palestinians ‘Yay’ #Ashke-Nazi.’ https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/palestinian-uc-berkeley-professor-apologizes-for-retweeting-anti-semitic-cartoons-1.5626988

Jeremy Corbyn defended in 2012 an anti-Semitic mural in East London that depicted Jewish bankers playing a monopoly-style game on the backs of the poor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43523445

Jeremy Corbyn support group invited anti-Israel activist Ewa Jasiewicz who vandalised the Warsaw memorial site to speak at its conference in Liverpool.

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/activist-who-daubed-free-palestine-at-warsaw-ghetto-quits-momentum-panel-event/

Jeremy Corbyn wrote a letter of support for Stephen Sizer, a vicar disciplined by the Church of England for sharing an article on social media entitled ‘9/11: Israel Did It’.

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jeremy-corbyn-defends-banned-vicar-who-suggested-israel-was-behind-911/

Labour initially refused to accept the IHRA definition of antisemitism as it supposedly curbed criticism of Israel even though IHRA clearly states that “criticism of Israel similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic”. http://www.lfi.org.uk/labour-rejects-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism/

Labour invited Shakeel Begg, an extremist Imam who previously called for violent and bloody jihad against Jews and called them ‘cockroaches’ to an anti-racism event. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1042084/Labour-party-Shakeel-Begg-lewisham-south-london-racism

Ken Livingstone stated that “Hitler supported Zionism” in 1932 before going “mad and killing six million Jews”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/30/livingstone-muddies-history-to-support-hitler-and-zionism-claims

Ken Livingstone has claimed there was at one point “real collaboration” between the Nazis and Jews, ahead of a hearing concerned with whether he has brought the Labour party into disrepute. The former London mayor made the fresh series of highly controversial remarks before the start of an internal party tribunal that is hearing evidence about his suspension from the Labour party a year ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/30/ken-livingstone-repeats-claim-nazi-zionist-collaboration

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone, appearing on Iranian state television to discuss the topic “Has the Holocaust been exploited to oppress others?,” repeated his claim that Hitler worked with the Zionist movement to convince Jews to move to Israel. Livingstone appeared on the Press TV show which was observed as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

https://www.haaretz.com/ken-livingstone-on-iran-tv-repeats-claim-that-hitler-backed-zionism-1.5770770

Ken Livingstone reportedly said a Jewish journalist was ‘just like a concentration camp guard’, that Jews vote Tory because they are rich and that Hitler supported Zionism. Despite his attempt to draw a parallel between those who fought for Jewish freedom and those who perpetrated a Jewish genocide, Livingstone was only given a temporary suspension from a party disciplinary panel — a decision Corbyn supported, despite 100 Labour MPs calling for Livingstone’s expulsion.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/feb/12/pressandpublishing.londonpolitics

https://labourlist.org/2017/04/100-labour-mps-criticise-livingstone-sanctions-as-former-mayor-launches-fightback/

Mr Livingstone tried to explain why Jews in Britain were not so keen to vote Labour. They had always supported his party, he insisted, until Menachem Begin came onto the political stage and then “suddenly the Jews became reactionaries, turned Right, nearly to be fascists”.

https://twitter.com/EquusontheBuses/status/849235510895812609

In his fight to get re-elected as London Mayor, Mr Livingstone suggested that British Jews switched their support from Labour to Conservative because they had got richer.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10813331/Jews-vote-Tory-because-they-are-rich-Ken-Livingstone-says.html

Mr Livingstone claimed that “extremist Jews” were organising “paramilitary groups, which resemble fascist organisations”, in London and elsewhere. “It is obvious that those Jews will try to hurt me and my reputation,” he added.

https://twitter.com/EquusontheBuses/status/849235510895812609

Naz Shah, MP for Bradford West, was suspended from the party for sharing a post suggesting Israel should be ‘relocated’ to the United States and for saying that ‘the Jews are rallying’ to a Daily Mirror poll. She later apologised and was re-instated.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/27/naz-shah-timeline-of-events-leading-to-mps-suspension-from-labour

Part 2

Labour councillor Damien Enticott posted Tweets claiming Jewish people “drink blood and suck baby’s dick”, that Jewish people are “murdering bastards” who “should be gassed”, and that “Hitler would have a solution to the Israel problem”.

https://i2.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/LABAS2.png?w=457&ssl=1

Nasreen Khan, a Labour council candidate subsequently barred from standing, asked: ‘What have the Jews done good in this world?’. She said schools were ‘brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler’ and said ‘Jews have reaped the rewards of playing victims’.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/11/serious-concerns-labours-shortlisting-councillor-accused-anti/

In 2016, Aysegul Gurbuz, a Labour councillor in Luton, resignedafter tweet surfaced where she said Hitler was ‘the greatest man in history’.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36012650

Former Lord Mayor of Bradford and Labour Councillor, Khadim Hussain, shared Facebook posts saying ‘Hitler killed six million Zionists’ and implying Israel ‘created the so-called ISIS and… is arming those vile terrorists!’.

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/u-k-labour-party-member-under-ifire-over-anti-semitic-posts-1.5425962

Vicki Kirby, formerly a Labour parliamentary candidate in Woking, had her membership reinstated after tweeting that Hitler might be a ‘Zionist God’ and Jews have ‘big noses’.

https://order-order.com/2016/03/14/vicki-kirby-on-jews/

Labour Councillor and former Labour Mayor of Blackburn, Salim Mulla, called Zionist Jews a ‘disgrace to humanity’, endorsed a video which blamed Israel for school shootings in the USA, and said ‘Zionism’ was orchestrating ISIS. After an initial suspension he was reinstated as a Labour member.

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2016-05-02/former-mayor-of-blackburn-zionist-jews-are-a-disgrace-to-humanity/

The chair of Manchester Labour Students, Tayyib Nawaz, resigned after tweets surfaced where he claimed ‘Hitler was Jewish’ and Israel was comparable to ISIS.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-student-activist-tayyib-nawaz-resign-anti-semitic-homophobic-tweets_uk_59141f33e4b030d4f1efb96d

Far-left activist and Holocaust denier Gerry Downing, a Labour member who claimed the existence of a ‘Jewish question’, said ‘elements of the Jewish-Zionist bourgeoisie… have played a vanguard role for the capitalist offensive against the workers’, was expelled after then Prime Minister David Cameron brought his case up at PMQs and denied the Jewish death toll in the Holocaust.

https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/gerry-downing-and-ian-donovan-on-falsification-of-the-auschwitz-death-toll/

A Labour council candidate in Peterborough, Alan Bull, shared anti-Semitic material online which claimed that the Holocaust was a ‘hoax’. The Labour party was made aware of the posts in 2017, but only suspended the candidate when contacted by the Jewish Chronicle in March 2018. Bull says he has never denied the Holocaust and re-posted the article in question to find out what his friends thought of it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-43655793

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/labour-alan-bull-council-holocaust-hoax/

Christine Shawcroft, the chair of Labour’s internal disputes panel lent support to a council candidate suspended for alleged antisemitism. Alan Bull, who was selected to stand in Peterborough, was suspended by Labour last week after he was linked to a series of antisemitic social media posts. He was accused of sharing on Facebook an article headlined, “International Red Cross report confirms the Holocaust of 6m Jews is a hoax”, illustrated with a photograph of the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Shawcroft called for Bull’s suspension to be lifted so he could stand in May’s local elections. Shawcroft claims in the email that “elements of Peterborough Labour party” have “political reasons” for wanting Bull suspended; and the Facebook post for which he was suspended has been “taken completely out of context”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/28/christine-shawcroft-labour-disputes-panel-chair-resigns-antisemitism-case

Former chair of Spitalfields and Banglatown Labour Party, Musabbir Ali, tweeted a far-right ‘timeline of the Jewish Genocide of the British People’.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/labour-suspend-activist-over-jewish-genocide-of-the-british-people-tweet-1.56965

Josh Simons, formerly a policy adviser in Corbyn’s office, said one member of Corbyn’s team referred to a ‘Jewish conspiracy’ in office discussions. Simons claimed Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s chief spokesperson, subjected him to an ‘inquisition’ about being Jewish, his family and his attitude to Israel.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-insider-fuels-anti-semitism-row-ks89d6j65

Miqdad Al-Nuaimi, a Labour Councillor in Newport, was suspended after tweeting that ‘#Israel regime and army are increasingly assuming the arrogance and genocidal character of the #Nazis’ and that ‘ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi dies in Israeli hospital…If confirmed, the #Israeli connection is very interesting’. He was initially suspended, but then cleared by the Labour party

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-36826119

A Labour Council candidate in Great Yarmouth claimed ‘it’s the super rich families of the Zionist lobby that control the world. Our world leaders sell their souls for greed and do the bidding of Israel.’ He was then dropped as a candidate.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/labour-removes-support-from-candidate-over-super-rich-zionist-lobby-post-1.448169

Afzal Khan, then a Labour MEP and now the MP for Manchester Gorton, compared Israel to Nazis.

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/labour-select-mep-who-compared-israel-to-nazis-to-fight-for-kaufmans-seat/

Terry Kelly, a councillor in Renfrewshire, wrote that the ‘American Jewish lobby is extremely powerful and it has its boot on Obama’s neck’ and that the film ‘The King’s Speech’ might not win an Oscar because ‘there is a powerful Jewish lobby campaigning against the film because of its historical inaccuracy about Hitler and the anti-Semitism’. Mr Kelly was temporarily suspended in May 2016 before being reinstated a month later.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-labour-councillor-suspended-over-anti-semitic-allegations-1-4118989

Labour member John McAuliffe was suspended for describingthe Holocaust as a ‘useful political tool’ of Israel ‘to establish a financial racket’, in a Facebook status.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/labour-activist-suspended-for-saying-israel-uses-holocaust-as-a-political-tool-1.64383

A former Labour parliamentary candidate in Witham, John Clarke, shared a Neo-Nazi meme saying the Rothschild family has used money lending and Israel to ‘take over the world’. He said the meme ‘contained a great deal of truth’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-anti-semitism-claims-candidate-fair-right-twitter-meme-a7570181.html

https://order-order.com/2017/02/07/labour-ppc-says-far-right-rothschilds-conspiracy-contains-great-deal-of-truth/

A Labour council candidate in Wiltshire, Terry Couchman, ranted on social media about ‘ZioNazi stormtroopers of IsraHell’ and ‘fake Jews of IsraHell and the USA’.

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/exclusive-labour-suspended-over-zionazi-storm-troopers-posts/

Labour’s 2015 and 2017 parliamentary candidate in Tiverton and Honiton, Caroline Kolek, claimed Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi was buying oil from ISIS to sell to Israel, and that Israel was behind The Sun newspaper’s push for UK military action in Syria. She also tweeted a quote by Mr Livingstone in which he claimed to be the victim of a 35-year smear campaign by the ‘Israel lobby’.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/labour-candidate-tweeted-anti-israel-conspiracy-theory-1.438433

Luke Cresswell, a Labour Councillor in Suffolk, tweeted an image of a blood-soaked Israeli flag, accused Israel of genocide and captioned the image ‘Moses must be proud of you’. Though initially suspended, he was then re-admitted, and subsequently selected as a councillor.

https://antisemitism.uk/labour-selects-councillor-luke-cresswell-who-tweeted-moses-must-be-proud-of-supposed-genocide-to-run-in-by-election/

Mohammed Shabbir, a Labour Councillor in Bradford, tweetedthe conspiracy theory that Israel was behind ISIS, accused Jews of ‘playing the Holocaust card’, and said the BBC was run by a ‘hasbara media cartel’.

http://www.bradfordzone.co.uk/labour-suspends-cllr-mohammed-shabbir-over-anti-semitism-comments/

Max Tasker, a Labour Councillor in North Wales, posted Youtube videos to his facebook page with entitled: ‘Is ISIS good for the Jews?’, ‘The whole story of Zionist conspiracy: the filthy history of pedophilia, murder and bigotry’, ‘Not for the immature! Zionist Antichrist will rule the [New World Order]’ and ‘Ukraine’s anti-Russian stance is a Zionist masterplan’.

https://antisemitism.uk/politics/labour/

A Labour councillor in Nottingham, Ilyas Aziz, was reinstated by Labour after being suspended for sharing posts from controversial conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier David Icke and a page called ‘Israel — Rothschilds’ Frankenstein Monster’.

https://order-order.com/people/ilyas-aziz/

Alison Gove-Humphries, a Labour council candidate in Birmingham, shared ‘anti-Semitic’ Facebook posts.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/labour-hall-green-candidate-deselected-12762024

A Labour councillor in Birmingham, Zafar Iqbal, shared a David Duke video on Facebook entitled ‘CNN Goldman Sachs and the Zio Matrix’. The Labour party accepted Mr Iqbal’s apology and claim that he had have no recollection of sharing this video’ — no disciplinary proceedings were enacted.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/labour-take-no-action-against-11923281

Part 3

Andrew Slack, a councillor in Chesterfield, was suspended after sharing an anti-Semitic meme of a blood-smeared, hook-nosed Israeli soldier. The meme said ‘Israel was created by the Rothschilds’.

https://order-order.com/2016/10/13/labour-councillor-posts-anti-semitic-propaganda/

Labour Party member and Momentum Teesside activist Bob Campbell has shared an image of a rat marked with a Star of David and claimed Israel controls ISIS. Campbell denied to the press that he had been suspended by the party.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-suspends-member-who-thinks-isis-israeli-conspiracy-a6956551.html

Mike Sivier, author of the left wing Vox Political blog, has claimed there is a ‘conspiracy’ between Jews and those who defend them in the UK, saying: ‘We are being told that agents of a foreign country have infiltrated our institutions’. He was due to stand as a Labour candidate in council elections in 2017 but was suspended before the ballot took place.

https://antisemitism.uk/labour-council-candidate-mike-sivier-defends-far-left-antisemites-and-quotes-far-right-holocaust-denier/

Jackie Walker, formerly vice-chair of Momentum, said Jews were the ‘chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade’, criticised security for Jewish schools, and said Holocaust Memorial Day was not ‘inclusive’ enough. After the comments were made and widely condemned, Corbyn shared a platform and campaigned alongside Walker.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/anti-semitism-row-momentum-organiser-jackie-walker-readmitted-to-labour-party-following-racism-a7053966.html

Wes Streeting, supposed critic of Labour anti-Semitism attended event alongside anti-semitic organisation Mend, which had attacked his group for working with Jews, and suggested it was responsible for promoting conspiracies, antisemitism and hatred of other communities.

https://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/wes-streeting-s-dangerous-approach-1.447110

Pam Bromley, a Labour Councillor in Lancashire, posted links to an antisemitic article entitled ‘World War 3: Trump Begins Paying His Homage to Rothschilds,’ commenting ‘we must remember that Rothschilds are a powerful financial family (like the Medicis) and represent capitalism and big business’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-43652692

https://antisemitism.uk/politics/labour/

Terence Flanagan, a member of Hampstead and Kilburn CLP, compared a Jewish councillor to Josef Goebbels and, when calling for his expulsion, referred to former Labour donor Michael Foster allegedly as ‘the Jewish millionaire’. Flanagan was suspended, but then readmitted to the party after formal written warning.

http://archive.camdennewjournal.com/flanagan-rosenberg

Tim Lezard was offered a job to work at Labour’s Southside HQ, despite tweeting ‘I’m thinking of setting up another new campaign group. Either Conservative Friends of Nazis, or Nazi Friends of Israel.’

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-adviser-questioned-synagogue-security-in-series-of-offensive-tweets-1.438483

https://order-order.com/people/tim-lezard/

Dave Oldfield, Labour councillor in North Lincolnshire stated that anti-Semitism “must be a MI5 Tory government plot to cause havoc in our party” because he has “never come across it anywhere” and shared a post saying he will no longer be reading anything about anti-Semitism because it is a “politically motivated attack by the political establishment”.

https://i2.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dave-oldfield.png?w=494&ssl=1

At a fringe event at Labour Party Conference 2017 a speaker said people should be allowed to question whether the Holocaust happened, and there were calls for the Jewish Labour Movement to be expelled from the party.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/26/new-antisemitism-row-for-labour-over-fringe-speakers-holocaust-remarks-miko-peled

Labour Students at Oxford University Labour Club mocked the Jewish victims of the Paris kosher supermarket attack, called Auschwitz a ‘cash cow’, and used the Neo-Nazi slur ‘Zio’, according to extensive testimony from Jewish students. After months of obfuscation, including an NEC decision to not publish a party report that concluded there had been ‘some incidents’ of anti-Semitic behaviour, Labour’s NEC decided not to discipline the key perpetrators.

https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/oxford-university-labour-club-anti-semitism-report-baroness-royall-jewish-students-a7170446.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/oxford-university-labour-club-co-chair-alex-chalmers-resigns-amid-anti-semitism-row-a6878826.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/probe-into-oxford-us-labour-club-reveals-poisonous-anti-semitism/

Corbyn supporters in Bristol erected a 100 foot banner that depicted Theresa May wearing Star of David earrings, alongside anti Conservative slogans. Local Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire slammed the banner as anti-Semitic and it was taken down.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/labour-supporters-in-bristol-erect-banner-with-1.439599

‘Labour Insider’ blogger Phillip Jones branded Jewish journalist Emma Barnett a ‘Zionist’ after she challenged Corbyn on Labour’s spending plans on Women’s Hour.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/86358/excl-labour-member-suspended-following-zionist

A Momentum activist, Marlene Ellis, was suspended after saying, in an open letter in defence of Ken Livingstone, that Zionists were ‘involved with Nazis’ and that Labour sought to ‘curry favour with… the pro-Zionist lobby in and beyond the media’.

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/labour-suspend-momentum-activist-for-saying-zionists-involved-with-nazis/

Rebecca Massey, a member in Hove, tweeted that ‘Israel has Tory and Labour parties under control’, and believes Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis is ‘manufactured’. No action was taken and Ms Massey went on to be appointed Treasurer of Hove and Portslade Labour Party.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/local/15074382.Labour_official_accused_of_anti_Semitic_tweets/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15703522.MP_branded_a_Scrooge_for_refusing_to_buy____166_gazebos_and_over_500_flags___/

Bethany Barker, a student activist who introduced Jeremy Corbyn at a 2017 local elections campaign event, described a Kippah as a ‘Jew cap’ and said Andres Breivik, the Norwegian far-right terrorist, should ‘get forced to live in a synagogue’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4488920/Labour-student-Bethany-Barker-quits-racist-tweets.html

A Labour activist who was being investigated by the party for alleged antisemitism was allowed to attend their conference in September. Kayla Bibby, 33, who represented the Liverpool Riverside constituency at the event, posted an image on Facebook in March showing the Statue of Liberty being smothered by an alien with the Star of David on its back. She wrote below the image: “The most accurate photo I’ve seen all year!”

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/kayla-bibby-1.472323

Part 4

Corbyn supporters targeted Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson with hundreds of messages containing antisemitic abuse after he called out Labour’s anti-Semitism. One anonymous account told a Jewish former Labour member: “All you needed was a shower”.

https://i2.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/awful-people.jpg?resize=540%2C422&ssl=1

A Jewish Labour MP, Ruth Smeeth, was sent a 1,000 word death threat from a Corbyn-supporter calling her a ‘yid c–t’ and that she ‘should hang from the gallows’. The threat followed Smeeth’s decision to walk out of a meeting outlining Labour’s response to anti-semitism because she was accused of working ‘hand in hand with the right-wing media to attack Jeremy’.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1712291/counter-terror-cops-hunt-foul-mouthed-jeremy-corbyn-supporter-who-launched-a-vile-tirade-threatening-to-hang-moderate-labour-mp-ruth-smeeth/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-mp-says-corbyn-must-name-and-shame-labours-anti-semites/

Smeeth, After receiving 25,000 abusive messages Ruth Smeeth now requires police protection, and has since questioned whether Labour is still ‘a safe space for British Jews’.

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/ruth-smeeth-ive-never-seen-antisemitism-in-labour-like-this-its-normal-now-a3349201.html

Jewish Labour MPs, including Luciana Berger, Ruth Smeeth and Margaret Hodge, have been applauded for speaking out against antisemitism in their own party, as well as in society as a whole. In emotional speeches, MPs read out examples of antisemitic abuse they have been subjected to.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/apr/17/syria-debate-corbyn-may-will-be-very-frightened-by-internet-campaigning-nazi-propaganda-revelations-says-culture-committee-chair-politics-live

Two Jewish Labour councillors in Haringey resigned, saying it is impossible to be a Jewish Labour councillor due to overwhelming anti-Semitic abuse. Joe Goldberg and Natan Doron reported that ‘many members have repeated to me assertions about Jews having big noses, controlling the media and being wealthy’, and that a fellow councillor accused Goldberg of ‘bagel-barrel politics’. On his resignation, a Haringey Momentum activist tweeted to Goldberg: ‘At least [you] will have more time to count your money.’ Mr Goldberg said complaints he made to party officials were dismissed.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/haringey-councillors-say-it-is-now-impossible-to-be-a-jewish-labour-councillor-1.460947

Labour quietly reinstated at least six councillors who posted anti-Semitic messages online, analysis shows, as a party insider told The Telegraph the complaints process is being manipulated by political factions. Evidence seen by The Telegraph shows senior party members were investigated over posts made on social media, including messages about blood libel, Zionism, linking Israel to Isis and the Holocaust and other anti-Semitic tropes. All six were reinstated quietly by the party, raising questions about whether Labour’s process for rooting out racism is effective.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/29/labour-quietly-reinstated-six-councillors-posted-anti-semitic

YouGov have found that more people see the Labour Party as racist than the Tories. Despite his repeated claims to be an “anti-racist campaigner”, twice as many Brits think Jeremy Corbyn is racist (20%) than think the same for Theresa May (11%). The same poll found that 30% of Brits think Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite, compared to just 5% who believe Theresa May to be. https://i2.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/labour-racist.png?resize=540%2C240&ssl=1

A Survation poll for the Jewish Chronicle has found that 38.5% of Jews living in Britain would “seriously consider” emigrating if Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister. Amongst women that figure rises to over 44%, The Jewish population of the UK stands at almost 300,000, meaning that if the UK were to elect a Labour government, 115,000 British Jews would seriously consider starting a fresh life outside of Britain.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/nearly-40-per-cent-of-british-jews-would-seriously-consider-emigrating-if-corbyn-became-pm-1.469270

Conclusion

To address common arguments;

The main one used to defend Labour is by highlighting parts of the Antisemitism Barometer, a 2017 report by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. Some commentators in the Labour antisemitism row have cherry-picked data from the “Antisemitism Barometer” — a study of attitudes to and among British Jews. First and foremost, this is a study on Labour voter attitudes, not the party. The study itself questions why the party is perceived so poorly and is so out of line with its voters in their views on anti-Semitism. I don’t believe Labour voters are particularly more racist than other party voters, with the exception of the high Muslim vote for Labour — which is a group which exhibits extremely high levels of anti-Semitism compared to the British average;

A 2016 survey of 5,446 adult Britons, part of a report titled Anti-Semitism in contemporary Great Britain, conducted by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, found that the prevalence of anti-Semitic views among Muslims was two to four times higher than the rest of the population, 55% of British Muslims held at least one anti-Semitic view, and that there was a correlation between Muslim religiosity and anti-Semitism.

https://www.jta.org/2017/09/12/news-opinion/world/british-muslims-twice-likelier-than-others-to-espouse-anti-semitic-views-survey-suggests

Back on to the study. Those seeking to defend the party have focused on the finding that Labour voters are slightly less likely than Conservatives to endorse an antisemitic statement (32 per cent of Labour supporters, versus 40 per cent of Conservative supporters). But the same study also found that the vast majority (83 per cent) of British Jewish people surveyed believe that Labour is too tolerant of antisemitism in its ranks. It’s possible that this report underestimates the true extent of antisemitism in the UK because people are often reluctant to own up to views they think are unacceptable in wider society. The same group who created the report also have a list of anti-Semitic issues in political parties and how they have been handled. Labour has by far the most cases, 31 more than the next closest party with a ‘good outcome’ rating of only 5%.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-antisemitism-political-parties

https://antisemitism.uk/politics/

The Chakrabarti Enquiry — Highly flawed, biased and faulty with questionable motive. Criticised extensively.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/16/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-chakrabarti-inquiry

Antisemitism in the UK by the Home Affairs Comittee — Scathing account of anti-Semitism. Cherry picked quotes such as ‘no empirical evidence Labour is any more antisemitic than other parties’ is the same as saying there’s absolutely no evidence for the BNP being more racist than Greens, despite the hundreds of examples — denial simply because no inner party poll has been put forth. In my opinion, actions speak volumes and the examples provided and often the lack of repercussions present a clear picture.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmhaff/136/136.pdf

Now, with all of these examples I would be interested in seeing peoples views beyond;

‘It’s a smear by xyz.’ Not everything is a smear.

‘It’s bullshit, there’s no issue.’ Read above, also important to note if you deny there’s an issues you are calling Jeremy Corbyn a liar and simply calling it bullshit doesn’t make it so.

‘It’s no worse in Labour than other parties!’ Read above and below.

Picking out 1 example from the whole post, stating it isn’t anti-Semetic and then when asked about the others not replying. Some examples whilst not explicitly anti-Semitic, are highly offensive, rely on tropes, questionable and add to the picture of Labour anti-Semitism.

‘It’s still only a small amount of Labour!’ And? I fail to see how this makes it okay or a non-issue. Clearly the amount is still too big and it isn’t just that, it’s combined with the examples given, the numerous times where severe action was necessary but not acted upon, the purposeful ignorance when reported, the Labour leader being mired by similar controversy, Jewish MP’s being attacked by Labour hardliners etc. that make you question whether the Labour party is a safe place for Jews.

What about ‘party that isn’t Labour’. This isn’t a defense to criticism.

‘Don’t you have anything better to do?’ Not today.

Cases of anti-Semitic racism are rising at an alarming rate — https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/antisemitic-uk-figurers-racism-anti-jewish-crime-police-a8465031.html. Yet instead of attempting to stamp it out certain people are more interesting in defending and denying racism to the ends of the Earth to defend ‘their party’. The hypocrisy is astounding, if UKIP or the Conservative party had this amount of evidence there would be an outcry far larger and the same people denying it when it’s Labour would be calling for expulsions and resignations, look at the reaction to Boris Johnson’s Burkha comment which garnered heavy criticism, people blaming an uptick of Islamophobia on it and ‘proof’ the Tory party hated Muslims yet the 70+ examples above aren’t enough to even warrant some critical thought on Labour’s relationship with Jews. I want to understand, how and most importantly why, even after all of the evidence above people would still deny there’s an issue.