Is this anti-semitism?

I'm Jewish, I've also been following this pretty closely from overseas, and Corbyn's not an anti-semite. He's just against Zionism. I like Omar a lot, but she's used anti-semitic tropes much more clearly than Corbyn ever has (and she subsequently convincingly apologized, to my mind)

My colleague said she couldn’t vote Green either because they haven’t adopted IHRA guidance. IHRA parameters are fine by me, and I’m glad Labour adopted them (I believe) before the last election.

here's how UK Jews treated previous Labour leader Ed Milliband, who I'm sure must also be a giant anti-semite: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/04/how-ed-miliband-lost-the-jewish-vote/

If Corbyn ever said anything like Donald Trump only wanting short guys in yarmulkes counting his money, I must have missed it

interesting article but not sure it proves what you think - only that labour problems with the jewish community predate corbyn which is what you'd expect since one of the big problems with corbyn-led labour isn't corbyn himself

But for many, what was to follow was worse: the Labour leadership’s four-month silence as anti-Semitic attacks doubled at home. ‘Only when things got really bad did they feel they had to say something,’ says one community activist. ‘It felt like it took a very long time.’ This was the hardest thing for British Jews to bear, and it made many of them confused and angry.

Instead of attempting to heal the rift, however, Miliband went on to widen it, whipping his MPs last October in support of a motion backing unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state — proposed by a Labour backbencher who the month before had compared the Israeli army to Isis.

tho critically:

This week, a poll for the Jewish -Chronicle found that 69 per cent of Jews intend to vote Tory next month, with Labour trailing on only 22 per cent. is still much better than 93% against Labour! a lot was made of trump doing slightly better with blacks + hispanics with far less movement.

the main manifesto had these key pledges on race and faith:

On religious discrimination, we will:
• Strengthen protection for religious communities and amend the law to include attacks on places of worship (including synagogues, temples, mosques and churches) as a specific aggravated offence.

• Review current levels of funding for and access to the Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme, maintain funding in real terms for the Community Security Trust, and consult on giving it statutory protection to ensure that religious communities have the support they need.

assume the second of these will look to address eg the fact jewish schools have seen a cut to security funding because the home office refuses to provide support under the current government

as an aside, the existence of a "national chief rabbi" is such an alien and inappropriate idea to me as an American Jew. Like, chief of what? According to who?

Note that article was from the Spectator, home to genuine fascists like Taki.

86 to 93 is a less dramatic shift tbf xps

xxp: I keep picturing him with a war bonnet on.

Not sure that math is right... 78 to 93 right?

86 percent was the stat Suzy gave upthread of Jewish voters who actually did not vote labour in 2015

- reforms of the disciplinary process because it takes forever (although I am told there is a legal reason why it takes that long?)
- faster action on cases like Chris Williamson - he should have been booted long before he was
- education for party members and activists. I believe the JLM (Jewish Labour Movement) have a training programme but it’s not compulsory. Momentum independently have done some very good videos on this.
- less tolerance of fringe groups like the JVL (Jewish Voice for Labour), I accept that they’re Corbyn & McDonnell’s mates but their views are fringe and they are not adding to the conversation positively.

These are some fairly basic steps, some of which are already being done. The issue is that because of the right of the party’s hatred of Corbyn, it became a factional issue years ago - there was an infamous tweet from the chair of a CLP saying that “the antisemitism stuff is really cutting through”. There are some people acting in bad faith and that has to be acknowledged.

What is this 93% figure anyway?

Oh ok I was going off the number quoted in that article sym posted

87% is what I saw quoted today, not exactly a cause for celebration however!

The 93 was from the JC article link I bumped the thread with

Not sure how much this is worth as it's pretty common to extrapolate from sample sets of this size but the surveys the Jewish Chronicle base their reports on are carried out by telephone (thus to older generations?) to a few hundred people.

interesting article but not sure it proves what you think - only that labour problems with the jewish community predate corbyn which is what you'd expect since one of the big problems with corbyn-led labour isn't corbyn himself

ya JVL should get punted asap

93% not voting Labour?

yes

Don't know the final percentages for Miliband tbh also as has been pointed out already, I think, the Jewish community in the UK hasn't been very left wing for a long time.

yeah it's frustrating to me that both Ed Milliband and Michael Howard faced anti-semitic attacks and nobody in the UK seemed to give a shit

how many times were the words "anti-semitism" on the front of the daily mail pre-Corbyn and post-Corbyn

The Labour Party now being accused of being anti-Hindu by some Representative Of The Entire UK Hindu Community btw.

No apology to the Jewish community from Jeremy Corbyn, as he is repeatedly challenged over claims of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party

[Tap to expand] https://t.co/ewcGeo7yOY pic.twitter.com/L1z52YZ9eu

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 26, 2019

fuck the bbc

running an interview as a gotcha, too damn right he didn't play their game

he could have apologised for any abuse anyone has suffered from labour members but that feeds the narrative as well, he did exactly the right thing

Mordy I hope you watch that and clock the game that's being played here

Now he'll lose the Jewish vote!

mordy, what do you think of the column Corbyn wrote in 2018? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/03/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-labour-party

here's forward's defense of the British irony comments (he was kidding!): https://forward.com/opinion/409563/the-missing-information-that-exonerates-jeremy-corbyn/

Mordy I hope you watch that and clock the game that's being played here

i hear your point but what would an apology cost him?

as has been pointed out already, I think, the Jewish community in the UK hasn't been very left wing for a long time.

my Twitter feed suggests oth-- ah, never mind!

i guess the antisemitic vote mostly. "i apologize for the ways labour under my watch has failed to take accusations of antisemitism seriously enough" would not immediately become "corbyn admits to hating jews"

mordy, what do you think of the column Corbyn wrote in 2018? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/03/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-labour-party

i've read it before i hope you don't mind if i don't read it again (just have a lot on my plate and posting to this thread in between generating paperwork) - i think it's pretty troubling all the antisemitic friends and acquaintances he has that he has defended and protected which makes his "they do not speak for me" somewhat hollow in my eyes.

Those JC polls are tiny! Also, their political editor is a former colleague of mine who was engaged in very dodgy dealings while freelancing, which I witnessed, and he turned that to his advantage when he joined the tabloid press at the end of the ‘90s and suddenly there were all these exclusives about celebrity addicts he’d known in the years leading up to his change in jobs. In 2015 he was arrested for suspected phone hacking and was very lucky not to be charged, and left his tabloid job under a massive cloud. I cannot think of a person in the media I trust less, and it amuses me greatly to see he offers private clients ‘reputation management’.

He has apologised before for various incidents - why do it again when that would just feed the BBC's narrative? It's a lose-lose but hopefully the line of attack is being seen as increasingly desperate and weirdly blind to the bigotries of the right

I don't know much about this but the allegations in the wikipedia article seem awfully weak to me. none of them even come close to the Trump campaign Star of David tweet situation IMO, or Omar's coded speech (for which she's apologized but I find her apologies fairly weak as well).

The reason there are a few paragraphs of "allegations" in the wikipedia article is precisely that there has been a years long smear campaign against Corbyn and the left, and those "allegations" are simply the accumulated smears. You can't just point to a wikpedia article and say "There's a lot in here so it must be meaningful."

goes from whitewashing the kashmir lockdown to quoting the niemoller poem, the most cynical shit i've seen in while

LATEST: The Hindu Council has now written to the Chief Rabbi to express their support and to accuse the Labour Party of also becoming anti-Hindu. Major interventions in this election today from pretty much every major faith in Britain. Astonishing. pic.twitter.com/J4fRtvIOLw

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) November 26, 2019

https://t.co/JkRwUevQIrhttps://t.co/lzf3ujhmemhttps://t.co/wQjF0tYzZD

Here are three separate times he apologised last year alone

— 🌹 ellun 🌹 (@ellnlvll) November 26, 2019

so why refuse to do it in that interview lj posted? just reflexive oppositional "i won't do what you tell me"?

How many times do you want someone to apologize? Does he have to apologize in every interview he gives?

BBC spin clearly working.

See we are still not taking Roma seriously so again.

anti-roma pogroms and ghettoisation in their actual manifesto but tories will be continuing to make holocaust jokes directed at the labour party

— tony blair electric chair (@internetratbag) November 26, 2019

i don't care if he apologizes or not but i'd think he'd do better if when the BBC guy was like "so will you apologize," he said, "I've actually apologized multiple times and have no problem doing so again," or something along those lines. He does seem a bit "I won't give in to what you want" there which may be understandable but also probably plays better to his base (yeah! show up that wicked BBC!).

that’s not my twitter btw I just stole the dn (xp)

I agree w/mordy re the apology. andrew neil is a fud but the story was going to be perpetuated either way - better to do the right thing. the party clearly still has a long way to go and we need to be seen to be listening to the jewish community.