Surely statistics can’t lie ?
JVL Introduction
Was there really a crisis of antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn?
To prove there was, some commentators pointed to the unprecedented number of antisemitism complaints filed in those years.
Labour’s disciplinary updates under Starmer might seem at first glance to support this argument.
They show that most antisemitism complaints considered by NEC disciplinary panels are upheld.
But Jamie Stern-Weiner casts doubt on the significance of these figures, noting that more than four-fifths of complaints submitted to the Labour Party are never even heard by NEC panels. They are dismissed as trivial or otherwise invalid at an earlier stage of the process.
This also has critical implications for Starmer’s pledge to institute an independent and transparent disciplinary process.
If the vast majority of complaints are unaccounted for in Labour’s published data, and exempt from scrutiny by Labour’s Independent Review Board and Independent Complaints Board, then, what guarantee is there that they are not being resolved on a factional or otherwise improper basis?
This article was originally published by Jamie Stern-Weiner's blog on Thu 24 Aug 2023. Read the original here.
A Note on Labour’s Complaints Numbers
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Margaret Hodge
Vexatious claims of Anti Semitism are hate crimes and should be prosecuted
Figures never lie, but liars often figure.
How many complaints of feeling total despair were dismissed?
It would be interesting to learn how many of the people they expelled for antisemitism they reported to the police, or were reported to the police by whoever made a complaint to the LP about them. One would have thought that the person or organisation submitting a complaint of antisemitism to the LP would mention that they have reported the person concerned to the police (in their submission), or if they DON’T mention it, that the first thing the department dealing with complaints would do is contact the complainant to ask them if they HAVE reported the person to the police, and if NOT, ask them WHY they haven’t.
I wonder how many of the 200 or so complaints Margaret Hodge submitted to the LP were reported to the police by her (almost 90% of whom weren’t even LP members*).
I’m not a betting man, but I’d wager it was a big fat ZERO!
*Needless to say, the MSM were keen to report on the 200 ‘Labour Party members’ Hodge complained about, but kept very quiet about it when shortly afterwards it emerged that the vast majority of them turned out not to be LP members.
And let’s not forget the delightful Ruth Smeeth who told the BBC that JVL members should just leave the Party if they didn’t like how they were being treated.
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/02/16/video-right-winger-smeeth-says-minority-jews-should-be-ignored-and-if-they-dont-like-it-tough/