Leadership Contenders Cave In To The Board Of Deputies
JVL Introduction
The Jewish Dissident has been quick off the mark with a condemnation of the Board of Deputies and its 10-pledges demand on Labour leadership contenders.
As the author points out: “The BoD certainly doesn’t have anything to do with socialism. While foregrounding the issue of antisemitism, it has been remarkably coy when it comes to flagging up other forms of racism, let alone the social injustices of Tory Britain. That this hostile body should be given a prominent – if not dominant – voice in the internal affairs of the Labour Party beggars belief. ”
An official JVL response to the Board’s demands will be published tomorrow.
This article was originally published by Jewish Dissident Blogspot on Mon 13 Jan 2020. Read the original here.
Leadership Contenders Cave In To The Board Of Deputies
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These proposals must surely breach the Data Protection Regs and almost every other principle of Natural Justice. The BoD holds no legal role in society except for having established itself.
It prevents an accused person establishing witnesses on the basis that the witness would then be suspended and continuing for each successive person. It will be manna from heaven for lawyers – except members won’t be able to afford it.
Will Starmer and Long Bailey so keen on these demands be prepared to do pro bono work ! Of course they cannot.
What if the new leader, once installed, reneged on the terms of this agreement and stood by Corbyn’s ethical foreign policy and told the BOD/JLM/MSM where to go? What dirt would they have on him/her to use in reprisals? Certainly nothing to compare with the “dirt” they had on Corbyn…
We need to fight deceit with deceit!
Ten points for the BOD.
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I don’t think that ‘disgust’ is too strong a word to describe my reaction to the grovelling cowardice of the candidates (irony : for ‘Leadership’) who signed up to these sectarian, undemocratic demands. My present feeling is that I can’t endorse any candidate who has done this – and the fact that the PLP hasn’t endorsed the one candidate who didn’t suggests that, for the immediate future, the notion of an effective opposition id dead. It will be interesting to watch any vote of the BDS issue.
The cave-in is so egregious that it takes the breath away, and essentially tars all supporters of Palestinian rights with the ‘antisemitism’ nonsense.
We hear a lot of talk of ‘offense’ in the context of prejudice and (real) hate speech. It’s about time we took up cudgels more forcefully against the offensiveness of calling people who are fully aware of the horrors of the Holocaust ‘antisemites’, and, contrariwise, the disgusting nature of using the victims as a weaponised tool for political gain.
I note that John Lansman, the egregious pontificator has said :
““It is never OK to respond to allegations of racism by being defensive”
I wonder if he recognizes the irony of how apt that statement is for those of us who have watched a sequence of mealy-mouthed apologias for fictional sins?
So glad The BOD views JVL as a fringe group.
You are a small cohort of Juvenile ideologues.
Your pathological hatred of The State of Israel is laughable.
Goodbye Labour Party. I am 70 years old & have been a member of the Labour Party for most of my life, but these demands are an affront to decency & Freedom of Speech.
This is horrifying. The candidates for Labour leader are running scared of a manipulative though actually powerless lobby whose thinking is dictated by Israel. Last week I was physically assaulted and sworn at by a self-described Jewish man (I am a woman) for questioning the veracity of the multiple allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. To which I belong, unless it throws me out!
The BoD and similar groups accuse certain elements in the Labour Party of formenting anti=Semitism. These people, who would silence legitimate criticism of Israel, lack the self-awareness to see that you can also provoke anti-Semitism. They can’t have it both ways: they claim to speak for British Jewry (of which I’m a member) and yet they act in a high-handed, anti-democratic way — this could lead people to think that British Jews don’t believe in democracy. Is this what they want?
Thank you for this honest account of the craven betrayal of the Labour Party, its members and our country by those who puport to be leaders.
Harry Lyon.
Oh Dear.
Any evidence for that rant?
Dear British Board of Deputies
https://dorseteye.com/dear-british-board-of-deputies/
We have all read the evidence and a correct summary of it here. Thank you.
The BOD are a political party masquerading as a religious body, which up to now has made them invulnerable to criticism. These Ten Commandments may be their first serious misstep.
Well to cheer you all up the candidates for Deputy Leadership have NOT
all signed up to the 10 demands but expressed reservations.