A win against the Labour Party’s false allegations of antisemitism
JVL Introduction
After several years, a Jewish man, expelled from the Labour Party for antisemitism has been exonerated, but is not going to rejoin the Party .
In this article, Skwawkbox says that Labour’s ‘Independent Complaints Board’ (ICB)’s findings indicate that “the party is still ignoring the 2020 findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which criticised Labour’s lack of transparency, shoddy processes and disregard for evidence.”
Jenny Manson (JVL Co Chair) is quoted in the article and calls on the ICB to re-open cases. We are not holding our breath that this decision will lead to the long overdue apologies let alone readmission or looking at the many people, including several members of JVL’s Executive Committee, who were disciplined and/or expelled. Many members were expelled based on retrospectively applying a new rule, which is obviously a long way from any sense of justice and due process. As noted here, at least two expelled members have died before there was even this hint of a possibility of justice.
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This article was originally published by Skwawkbox on Thu 27 Mar 2025. Read the original here.
Exclusive: Jewish left-winger wins case against Labour ‘antisemitism’ expulsion but stays out anyway
Freedom from ‘secretive, unscrupulous’ party and its treacherous leadership is ‘liberating’, says exonerated ex-member
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Quite worrying that this man does not feel safe to share his name publicly. What times we are living in…
What is the procedure for challenging expulsion? I can’t remember now if there was ever a reply to my appeal.
One more thing: I’m sure I am not alone in having been expelled for being a “supporter” of a proscribed organisation (Labour Against the Witchhunt) without ever having had contact with it. Like many others, I was not accused of antisemitism but asked why I had made certain remarks, all of which related to Jews and/or Israel. Once I had replied to these implicit accusations of antisemitism the General Secretary’s team of witchhunters changed tack and decided not to go ahead with that approach and claimed instead that I was a supporter of LAW because I had insisted that that organisation was not antisemitic.
My guess is that expelling real or supposed supporters of a proscribed organisation – no evidence required – was a frequently used tactic.
Absolutely right Andrew. Proscribing organisations and then expelling people for suggesting that they should not have been expelled, for example, was a clever tactic, absolving the machine of the need to demonstrate any actual misdemeanour on the part of the expellee.
I don’t know why I’m still shocked about anything about Starmer but the fact he gave Pro Israel groups the “Right to veto” members from the “INDEPENDENT ” Complaints Board and the fact the Media have ignored this Authoritarian Fascist behaviour is still unbelievable..
Starmer stands for the Labour Party, and Labour stands for capitalism, and always has. It just managed to embed itself in the working class with some reforms, and it can’t even offer that anymore.
My Jewish husband, Mike Howard, didn’t even get an ackowledgement of his appeal and died with the slur of antisemitism on his head, when he had suffered real antisemitism growing up in the East End of London. I expect an apology on his behalf to give to the Jewish side of his family. I was expelled for talking about it online afterwards, and would never rejoin the party that we both gave our adult lives to.