Butler, Burgon bring house down at deputy hustings
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
At last!
Some candidates in the deputy leadership contest have refused to be silenced by the demands made by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Added 19 Jan: LeedsLive report on the hustings, focusing on Richard Burgon’s position, following the Skwawkbox article.
This article was originally published by Skwawkbox on Sun 19 Jan 2020. Read the original here.
Video: Butler, Burgon bring house down at deputy hustings – by standing up for members and all Jewish people
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no concessions whatever should be made to the Board of Deputies or the Jewish Labour Movement and the latter dis-affiliated. Both are minority factions among Jews and a down-right pain in the arse.
What a relief! As a (jewish) supporter of the Palestinians and progressive Israelis, thanks for showing some resistance to the disgraceful behaviour of the Board of Deputies and the cowardice of the leadership contenders.
Stop whitewashing Corbyn.
The man is a friend of organisations that wish to kill Jews worldwide.
You are a bunch of Quizzlings
It is a historical fact (acknowledged by Labour Friends of Israel) that Israel would have a Palestinian majority but for the violent ethnic cleansing that occurred in 1948. It is also a fact that the Board of Deputies works tirelessly to support the ethnic status quo in Israel and opposes a Palestinian Right of Return to Israel. So it seems to me that the price for “building trust” with the section of the Jewish Community that the BoD represents is implicitly recognising the validity of violent Ethnic Cleansing and opposing rectification. Labour should oppose ALL racism without fear of favour and that includes both anti Semitism and violent, premeditated ethnic cleansing. If the price for “building trust” is compromising on Labour’s opposition to racism, it is a price too far.
I want a Labour leader who can stand up to this attempt to further weaken the LP.
Any concessions to the BoD will be a concession to the past three years of anti-Corbyn activity, part of the battle between the membership and the Parliamentary Labour Party.
Hooray for the principled, intelligent, sensitive, kind and brave way that Dawn B (our MP) and Richard B have dealt with this….so far.
Good response from Burgon but he didn’t mention all the secular Jews. They are just as likely to suffer antisemitism aren’t they?
Mr Bancroft can you supply us some factual detail of ‘whitewashing Corbyn’. No generalised slogans, no snippets from tabloid press just detailed evidence please.
Whatever we think of Hamas they are the elected representatives of the Palestinians. JC reached out to the IRA although to be fair at the time the British Army was having secret weekly meetings with them) and now we have the Good Friday Peace Agreement. Working for peace seems to get you few friends.
Perhaps the fire bombing of Exeter Synagogue in July 2019by a neo Nazi lunatic might be a clearer example of anti-Semitism than endlessly trawling social media to quote mine people
I think that Dawn Butler and Richard Burgon attitude to the 10 pledges are absolutely right.
Rosena Allin-Khan needs to reflect on the research outcome into anti-semitism in the Labour Party before making statements of that kind, and Miriam Mirwitch needs to do the same.
Sensible approach from Richard Burgon and Dawn Butler. The other leadership candidates should be encouraged to take the same position.