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#LabourAntisemitism
The current focus of this row is designed by Labour to suggest that they have tackled the issue. This of course is not the case; Labour are trying to exculpate their own Members by defining out those aspects of antisemitism, which affect them most. 1/8
#LabourAntisemitism
The current focus of this row is designed by Labour to suggest that they have tackled the issue. This of course is not the case; Labour are trying to exculpate their own Members by defining out those aspects of antisemitism, which affect them most. 1/8
Notable therefore is the broad IHRA definition of #antisemitism, which is the gold standard. Adopted by 24 EU countries, this is the universally accepted definition. A total of 31 countries have so far accepted the broader definition, which tackles the political mutation. 2/8
This is of course the reason that @UKLabour and @jeremycorbyn are so keen to avoid it. They have edited out the parts of the definition that they don’t like, and are busy gaslighting Jews into accepting the change as “superior”. Utter bunkum. It’s watering it down. 3/8
In fact IHRA Chair Constantinescu says it is necessary because the full definition deals with political antisemitism properly. Here is what he has to say about it for himself.
holocaustremembrance.com/stories/workin…
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holocaustremembrance.com/stories/workin…
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This is all of a piece with the other Labour strategy, to try to avoid the representative nature of the Biard if Deputies, to adopt @JVoiceLabour as their puppet Jews, and to avoid responsibility for their own antisemitic propensities. 5/8
@UKLabour want to claim that antisemitism is purely a disease of the Right. Hence all the avoidance and whataboutery and the attempts to portray this as a nasty Tory smear, that the Board is a Tory front etc. Of course this is just a front for their denial of antisemitism. 6/8
And the final issue is the denial to Jews alone of the right to define racism under the MacPherson guidelines. Here is an article that states that the victim’s perception is crucial.
opendemocracy.net/antony-lerman/…‘working-definition’-of-antise 7/8
opendemocracy.net/antony-lerman/…‘working-definition’-of-antise 7/8
Labour’s leadership has decided to become institutionally antisemitic. They will deploy chosen Jews to deny it, pointing at their Jewishness to cover their unrepresentative nature. And they are not moving on this. opendemocracy.net/antony-lerman/…‘working-definition’-of-antise 8/8
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