Labour's Jewish Problem

[SueEllen]

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Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, has said the party will investigate how it gave a platform at a conference fringe event to a speaker who said people should be allowed to question whether the Holocaust happened.

The remarks by the Israeli-American author Miko Peled have renewed alarm about antisemitism in the Labour party. The party is set to pass a significant rule change on Tuesday to toughen its stance on antisemitism and other forms of prejudice, proposed by the Jewish Labour Movement and backed by Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s national executive committee.

Senior Labour figures will hope that the passing of the rule change on Tuesday morning will send a signal that the party is prepared to get tough on anti-Jewish hate speech within its ranks.

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At the Labour Party Conference yesterday, one speaker said they should have a debate on whether the Holocaust actually happened, while another compared supporters of Israel to Nazis.

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) claimed that Labour candidates and officials sent eight times more anti-semitic tweets than any other party, so Nick Ferrari put those allegations to Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi from campaign group Free Speech On Israel.

Her response was, "Oh yes, yeah yeah, it's so funny," as she giggled.

WTF? Some of their best MPs were Jewish and they have lost seats to this position.

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Ken Livingstone.

[SueEllen]

Ken Livingstone.

He's old they should have just kicked him out of the party.

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So the Labour policy of having fewer conference speakers from the shadow cabinet and more from the grass roots is working out well then....

[SueEllen]

So the Labour policy of having fewer conference speakers from the shadow cabinet and more from the grass roots is working out well then....

[Eirikur]

With the Great Leader Chairman Corbyn at the helm who openly said Hezbollah are his friends anti semitism will continue in Labour

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WTF?

I know. Disgraceful. And yet they keep on making excuses and getting away with it. And people still vote for them!

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I know. Disgraceful. And yet they keep on making excuses and getting away with it. And people still vote for them!

The biggest issue(IMO) is that people only vote for 2 parties.

[Mordac]

With the Great Leader Chairman Corbyn at the helm who openly said Hezbollah are his friends anti semitism will continue in Labour

The problem is that lefties in general are viscerally anti-Israel (both the govt and the very concept of the nation state) and don't seem to be able to draw the distinction between "Israel" and "Jews." The idiot Livingstone being a prime example.

[Eirikur]

The problem is that lefties in general are viscerally anti-Israel (both the govt and the very concept of the nation state) and don't seem to be able to draw the distinction between "Israel" and "Jews." The idiot Livingstone being a prime example.

The strange thing is that the majority Jews living in the UK vote Labour for some unclear reason