The Campaign Against Antisemitism has reacted with fury after the Labour Party took “a regressive step by reportedly opening and promptly closing an investigation” into Angela Rayner over a complaint submitted by the organisation. Readers will remember on the day of the EHRC report into antisemitism in Labour, the CAA submitted complaints against 14 MPs on the grounds that each of them had also brought the party into disrepute by backing Corbyn and “repeatedly contended that complaints about antisemitism in the Labour Party were (and are) simply “a smear””. According to the CAA, Labour never even acknowledged receipt of the complaint…
Chief Executive of the CAA, Gideon Falter, said:
“It is still business as usual for the Labour Party when it comes to antisemitism. It is hard to see how the handling of this complaint by Labour under Sir Keir Starmer has been any different to how it would have been handled under Jeremy Corbyn.
“The investigation of our complaint against Angela Rayner has been a sham and we will be re-introducing the complaint to the independent disciplinary panel when it is set up. British Jews should be under no illusion that despite Sir Keir’s promises, under his leadership the skulduggery apparently continues at Labour Headquarters.”
Damning…
The Campaign Against Antisemitism has released a damning response to the Labour NEC panel’s decision to re-admit Jeremy Corbyn into the Labour Party, claiming “we have been conned” and that “Withholding the whip from Jeremy Corbyn is offering the Jewish community crumbs.” The group also reveals they have submitted a second complaint against Corbyn, calling for him
“to be held to account not by a sham panel but by an independent disciplinary process, as required by the EHRC. Sir Keir must suspend him pending that process, and, if our complaint is upheld, Mr Corbyn must be expelled.”
The day of the EHRC antisemitism report, the Campaign Against Antisemitism submitted the names of 14 other Labour MPs who they accused of contending complaints of antisemitism against Labour were mere smears, along with 54 pages of evidence. Labour have remained silent about the status of these complaints…
Read the CAA response in full:
Campaign Against Anti-Semitism has reignited calls for the disgraced Baroness Tonge to vacate her seat in the House of Lords, after she suggested that the Israeli government bears responsibility for the Pittsburgh attack. This is just the latest in a long, long list of anti-Semitic flirtations and jew blaming by the former Liberal Democrat health spokesperson.
Jewish voices have called on the Liberal Democrats who installed Tonge in the House of Lords to demand her removal. The campaign to force her out has already won support from the Lib Dem youth wing. Charlie Kennedy appointed her to the Lords when he was leader. Will the current leader, Vince Cable, add his voice?
The Jewish Chronicle reports that Labour have decided to take no action against two members of the Oxford University Labour club accused of anti-Semitism. The members of OULC were claimed to have repeatedly used the slur “Zios” and said attacks on Jews were justified because of the situation in Gaza. At the time the group’s chair Alex Chalmers quit in protest, saying:
“Whether it be members of the Executive throwing around the term ‘Zio’ (a term for Jews usually confined to websites run by the Ku Klux Klan) with casual abandon, senior members of the club expressing their ‘solidarity’ with Hamas and explicitly defending their tactics of indiscriminately murdering civilians, or a former Co-Chair claiming that ‘most accusations of antisemitism are just the Zionists crying wolf’, a large proportion of both OULC and the student left in Oxford more generally have some kind of problem with Jews.”
Baroness Royall found the claims to be true in her report, finding: “It is clear to me from the weight of witnessed allegations received that there have been some incidents of antisemitic behaviour and that it is appropriate for the disciplinary procedures of our Party to be invoked”. Yet the Labour NEC disputes panel today ruled that no further investigations should be carried out into the pair. Who’d have thought it. Good day to bury bad news…
Responding to Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to go to notorious Israel hater Hatem Bazian’s book launch, Jennifer Gerber, Director of Labour Friends of Israel, told Guido Fawkes:
We find it strange that Jeremy Corbyn would think it’s appropriate to attend an event organised by a group who say the party he leads is “indebted to Jewish financiers with Zionist leanings”. We hope in future Jeremy will think more carefully about the organisations he associates himself with.
Joe Glasman, Head of Political and Government Investigations at Campaign Against Antisemitism also told Guido:
A week ago, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson admitted the presence of antisemitism in the Labour Party and promised firm action against it. It seems that this is Jeremy Corbyn’s response. Whilst other MPs were visiting Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Jeremy Corbyn said he was too busy. Instead, he has taken time out of his onerous schedule to meet Hatem Bazian, who has been closely associated with Islamist antisemitism in public, at an event held by a charity which organises an annual march in support of antisemitic genocidal terrorist group Hezbollah. This is unmistakable in its symbolism and signals that Jeremy Corbyn is defying Tom Watson and the Jewish community.
Terrible by-election result, awful opinion polls, another anti-Semitic incident. Good week for Jez…
