Skwawkbox Exclusive – up to 90% of antisemitism evidence unfit “in some cases”
JVL Introduction
This Skwawkbox report reveals what many are aware of – that many accusations of antisemitism are paper-thin, and bear no relationship to the antisemitism we know and abhor: prejudice, hostility or hatred towards Jews as Jews, a form of racism.
In the past a few high profile cases obsessed the media. We had hoped that the era of generalised cases of suspension on highly dubious grounds, originating in the McNichol era, was behind us.
Alas, in the gadarene rush to show the EHRC that “something is being done”, a new wave of injustice seems to be upon us…
This article was originally published by Skwawkbox on Sat 15 Feb 2020. Read the original here.
Excl: NCC forced to reject up to 90% of antisemitism evidence as unfit – multiple deaths follow expulsions
NCC source says huge amount of evidence passed on by NEC investigators has no substance – but NEC ‘fast-tracking’ expulsions regardless, leading to concerns over post-expulsion deaths and suicide attempts
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The following Daily Mail article was published on Jan 8th with the following headline: ‘Five Labour members could face CRIMINAL charges for anti-Semitism……’, and in the article it says the following:
Euan Philipps, spokesman for Labour Against Anti-Semitism, said: ‘The Met’s referral of these cases to the CPS underlines the degree of criminality that anti-Jewish racism in the Labour Party has reached.
‘Over the past three years we have reported hundreds of similar cases of anti-Jewish racism in the Labour Party, which we believe also constitute hate crimes. They too must now lead to prosecutions.’
It’s more than a little interesting to note that LAA doesn’t specify who they have reported these ‘hundreds of similar cases’ to, but given the substance of the article, they imply of course that they have reported these ‘hundreds of similar cases’ to the police, and have done so during a period of three years AND imply that none of them have been dealt with as of yet, the point being that if that is really the case, then why hasn’t it ALREADY led to any prosecutions?!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7864309/Five-Labour-members-face-court-anti-Semitism-including-branding-Jews-cancer.html
BUT, in a comment on Amazon, Jonathan Hoffman said the following (four months ago as of me writing this):
‘The estimable organisation Labour Against Antisemitism (I am an adviser) said in February 2019 that it had reported 1200 cases since 2016, so almost double Formby’s number.’
So according to Hoffman (I assume most people who subscribe to JVL will be familiar with him), LAA – who he is an advisor to – said in February 2019 that it had reported 1200 cases since 2016, and given what he THEN says, he is OBVIOUSLY saying that the LAA reported the 1200 cases to the Labour Party. And as you will see further on in the Comments, ‘domestic extremist’ asks Hoffman if the LAA reported the 1200 cases to the police AND – receiving no reply from Hoffman – does so AGAIN a few weeks later, and yet again receives no answer, and THAT was now three months ago, and I think we can safely assume that LAA did NOT submit the cases to the police.
And it’s precisely because they DIDN’T that they don’t specify who they reported the ‘hundreds of similar cases’ TO in the DM article, but of course lead the reader to think they are saying that they reported them to the police. And it isn’t the case that Hoffman didn’t see domestic extremist’s posts, as he responds to other comments made afterwards.
Needless to say, if you were REALLY concerned about A/S, you wouldn’t have only reported the cases to the LP, but would of course have reported them to the police as well. But they didn’t, and that tells us ALL we need to know.
NB If you want to check out Hoffman’s comment etc, go to the page re the book Bad News For Labour (on amazon), then scroll down the page, and just directly underneath the last of the listed reviews it says ‘See all reviews from the United Kingdom’, click on that, then scroll to the end of the first review listed (directly under ‘Top positive review’ and ‘Top critical review’) by Deborah H. Maccoby, scroll down to the end of her review (which is excellent!), and next to the ‘Helpful’ button toy will see Comments, highlighted in blue (and 17 at the time of writing), select the ‘Oldest’ option (on the right) and Hoffman’s comment is the sixth one down.
PS And HERE’s confirmation that LAA submitted them to the LP – and ALL at the same time!! – in February of last year, 4,000 examples in fact, which ‘are likely to relate to around 1,000 separate people, thought to be Labour members or people who comment on Labour Facebook groups.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6685017/Labour-activists-4-000-examples-anti-Semitism.html
Needless to say, it’s more-than-likely all pure fiction anyway! And if that’s the case, the LP/NEC should say so, and notify skwawkbox and/or JVL of the facts.
So where on earth are our leadership candidates
Promising to settle and reinstate staff behind Panorama Drama
Signing up to BoD10, selling JC down the road, failing to defend party, members and supporters proud record of fighting racism
Has anyone managed to raise any of the above at the Hustings
Strange choice of words: “NCC forced to reject up to 90% of antisemitism evidence as unfit” and “NEC investigators pass us evidence to assess, but much of it is so flimsy or irrelevant that when we’ve talked to our legal advisors we have no choice but to reject it as unfit – as much as 90% of it in some cases.”
“Forced’, ‘no choice’ – seems to suggest that the NCC would actually have liked to accept those cases as antisemitic but were not allowed to. Surely any body acting in a quasi-judicial role should not need to be ‘forced’ or be left with ‘no choice but to’ when it comes to rejecting irrelevant, flimsy or misleading evidence.
This is very scary stuff. Well done members of the NCC for speaking up.
I am not surprised by the statement that ” up to 90% of of antisemitism evidence is unfit”.This really hit home in the case of Chris Williamson.I feel that by these standards I would certainly be judged to be antisemitic.
I am now considering referring myself to the non compliance unit. The thing holding me back is that I am not Jewish. Would I be impugning the representativeness of JVL?
I am not a member of the Labour Party, but support the socialist programme in the 2017 and 2019 manifestos.
I wrote this on my Facebook page today, for which if not relevant I apologise.
I sympathise with the response to the tragic death of Caroline Flack. There are several issues raised here about basic humanity, not least that of bullying. I wonder then why there has been no discussion about the effects of the media attacks from the press (not merely the sewer variety) false allegations eg about antisemitism and ultimately the traducing of the character of Jeremy Corbyn since his election, twice, by the Labour Party membership.
I have posted here before with concern about the effects of this outright bullying on his mental well-being and that of others such as Diane Abbott who has been mercilessly trolled and ridiculed for years.
The tears for Caroline Flack might well be genuine in many quarters. I think, however, those who are shedding them now across the media examine their actions concerning those who don’t happen to be popular tv celebrities and who have suffered grievously at their bullying hands.
Those such as mentioned above are subjected to media and online bullying and do not warrant the outpouring of sadness that has been evident, eg across the BBC this weekend.
Presumably it demands the taking of your own life to fulfil that response and the inevitable messages of regret about lack of kindness to each other.
In will add that I am a retired schoolteacher and former NUT (now NEU) representative at school and divisional level. I once heard a Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Belsen, Esther Brunstein, addressing annual conference of the then NUT in the mid 1990s, quote the Nobel Literature Laureate Eli Wiesel, himself a survivor of The Holocaust. “We have to teach our children to be human.” Education means nothing otherwise.
I think this also applies to Labour Party bureaucrats who either by the failings of bureaucracy leading to complete ineptitude or by their merciless regard for those being accused of antisemitism, mostly on the flimsiest pretexts, have condemned decent Labour activists to being forced to defend themselves against false allegations (I can think of few things worse) often over an extended period of suspension.
Does humanity play any part in the minds of these bullies, who I believe can rightfully be called witch hunters who are attempting to cleanse the Labour Party of criticism of the zionist and apartheid state of Israel.
What further both saddens and frightens me is the willingness of the current leadership candidates to unreservedly embrace the flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism and thus to effectively outlaw support for Palestine against its occupation by Israel.
Laura Murray:
“It’s also not remotely true that 90% of antisemitism evidence passed to the NCC is “unfit”.
Whoever briefed this article either has no clue what they’re talking about or an axe to grind (possibly both)”