Labour antisemitism investigation will not be sent to equality commission
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Sky News reports and quotes at length an internal Labour Party investigation showing that anti-Corbyn factions deliberately sabotaged discipline procedures to put the leadership in a bad light over handling of antisemitism allegations. It says the report has not been included in Labour’s evidence to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.
<<… The 860-page report, seen by Sky News, concluded factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to “a litany of mistakes” that hindered the effective handling of the issue.
The investigation, which was completed in the last month of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, claims to have found “no evidence” of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being “motivated by antisemitic intent”… >>
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This article was originally published by Sky News on Sat 11 Apr 2020. Read the original here.
Labour antisemitism investigation will not be sent to equality commission
A report found factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to “a litany of mistakes”.
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“ … party lawyers consider the document … should be used to inform and enhance the party’s understanding of the situation.”
Therefore published to the Party membership, including those in JVL.
A huge amount of intolerance was generated in Europe (beginning around 2014) and particularly in this country during “Brexit” . This arose principally from the refugee crisis and was whipped up by right wing factions. Intolerance, sometimes including violence, included incidents involving islamophobia, antisemitism, xenophobia.
I certainly saw much nastiness both on the web and in the MSM
and it is evident the Labour Party did not escape from this.
I am amazed – maybe naively- that the MSM has blamed Corbyn
for this – as if nothing else happened in 2015 apart from his leadership of the Labour Party !
It was already known that there was a poor initial response to
complaints of antisemitism in the Labour Party and a lot of time
was taken in clearing up the backlog and improving the complaints procedures. I think that there is still much to be done.
I am glad that the contents of the report of the background to this
have been made available to Sky News and hope that note
has been taken by Keir Starmer.
I hope this will also be taken up by the rest of the MSM, including the BBC, but I won’t hold my breath.
What a surprise? The Labour right and its pliant bureaucrats behave like gangsters. I am really shocked. I never knew that.
This report should be made downloadable so we can all get the full measure of their filthy campaigns to undermine the party’s democratically elected leadership.
No surprise there, then. The greatest failure of the Corbyn leadership was not clearing out these scabs and saboteurs. Labour is doomed if it does not eradicate these scum.
It’s not up to the LP’s lawyers to decide whether or not this dossier goes to the EHRC. As far as I can tell from their web site, anyone who gets hold of it could submit it, although the EHRC would have the discretion to disregard it, as it is 8 months past the submission date. As we know, the JLM has submitted all kinds of junk. So who’s going to be first to make the new dossier public so it can be submitted?
Full report The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 – 2019
The Report is now *out there* and downloadable. So it’s public, and any member could forward it to the EHRC.
The full document is all over social media, so anyone can now read it.
Talk about twisting the truth back on itself. It seems more and more that this type of response of turning the blame back on the person who raises an issue of legitimate discrimination or injustice, is the uniform tactic being used against people who have legitimate claims of sexism, racism and bigotry and other forms of discrimination. In America it is taking the shape of counter -suing the MeToo or Black Lives Matter cases on the basis of damage to reputation of the accused!
I think we need a campaign to pressure Starmer to take this issue up and offer an apology and expel those members clearly responsible for the loss of the election.
If the report is in the public domain, the JVL should themselves now submit the report to the EHRC as evidence.
Here is a link to to the full report:
https://t.co/foVGpjUjZy?amp=1
Spread it round – this is a defining moment for Starmer and for socialists in the LP.
Mike Scott’s link does not work. However, if you look through the LAW website you can find a better link which worked for me: “it can be found here” where ‘here’ is the link. The authors accept most allegations of antisemitism uncritically, including Corbyn’s truckling to BoD etc and even much of the so-called LAAS allegations – which they do concede comes from a vexatious source. So their entire logic is apologetic. It repays detailed but critical study. What it does make clear is the rabid hatred of much of the then LP staff for any sort of socialism or any resistance to imperialism, and their preference for Tory over socialist policies.