From The Guardian ➤ a leaked Report’s findings clash with whistleblower complaints and will not be sent to EHRC 

By Rowena Mason

A leaked internal report into Labour’s handling of antisemitism concludes that factional hostility to Jeremy Corbyn hampered the party’s efforts to tackle the problem.

The report does not name an author but was completed in the last months of Corbyn’s leadership. It was intended to be submitted as an annexe to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into Labour’s approach to dealing with antisemitism.

However, it is understood it will not be sent, following an intervention by the party’s lawyers. The report’s conclusions clash with complaints of whistleblowers, formerly working for Labour, who told BBC Panorama last year there had been political interference in the process from the top of the party under Corbyn. Their claims were strongly denied by Labour at the time, which accused the BBC of bias and called for the documentary to be pulled.

The new internal report, seen by the Guardian, said it had found no evidence of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being “motivated by antisemitic intent”.

But the 860-page document said it uncovered many failings in the process for tackling antisemitism complaints before Jennie Formby, the current general secretary, took over in 2018.

Continue reading @ The Guardian.

'Hostility To Corbyn' Curbed Labour Efforts To Tackle Antisemitism, Says Leaked Report

From The Guardian ➤ a leaked Report’s findings clash with whistleblower complaints and will not be sent to EHRC 

By Rowena Mason

A leaked internal report into Labour’s handling of antisemitism concludes that factional hostility to Jeremy Corbyn hampered the party’s efforts to tackle the problem.

The report does not name an author but was completed in the last months of Corbyn’s leadership. It was intended to be submitted as an annexe to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into Labour’s approach to dealing with antisemitism.

However, it is understood it will not be sent, following an intervention by the party’s lawyers. The report’s conclusions clash with complaints of whistleblowers, formerly working for Labour, who told BBC Panorama last year there had been political interference in the process from the top of the party under Corbyn. Their claims were strongly denied by Labour at the time, which accused the BBC of bias and called for the documentary to be pulled.

The new internal report, seen by the Guardian, said it had found no evidence of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being “motivated by antisemitic intent”.

But the 860-page document said it uncovered many failings in the process for tackling antisemitism complaints before Jennie Formby, the current general secretary, took over in 2018.

Continue reading @ The Guardian.

8 comments:

  1. It's all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy:

    The Weaponisation of Labour Antisemitism | David Graeber, Ph.D.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oOj7BzciA

    ReplyDelete
  2. More validation that it’s all a right-wing conspiracy:

    NORMAN FINKELSTEIN on The 'Anti-Semite Corbyn' Claims

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEX5OGmXLz4

    ReplyDelete
  3. Eoghan

    I have just watchded David Graeber's video and there is a lot I agree with around the false equation between criticism of Israeli govt policy and the rightward drift in Israeli politics (as opposed to the existence of the State of Israel) and antisemitism.

    But he does not seriously get to grips with the specificity of antisemitism in the Labour Party which is essentially a fusion of hostility towards Jewry in some misguided socialist thought becaiuse of the association of Jews with money-lending and alleged control of high finance and an antizionism which though not the same as full-on Nazi/far right race hatred of Jews always runs the risk of seguing into this dangerous territory. It cannot have escaped your notice that amongst the graffiti illustrated by Dr Graeber as indicative of growing antisemitism (and other racisms) across the West is a reference to 9/11; many of the conspiracy theories that far left antisemites trade in relate to the alleged hand of Mossad/Israel in the 9/11 attacks.

    That there is racism towards Jews and Muslims in the Tory Party and amongst the far right means that Labour as a party of equality and social justice has a special responsibility to eradicate any type of prejudice.

    Sadly, Dr Gaeber seems to downplay the experiences of womwen Jewish MPs at the hands of the bigots of the far right and Corbynism as this piece watch this piece by Luciana Berger as an example:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kej1Y84OdGM

    ReplyDelete
  4. Barry,

    According to this website…

    None of the anti-Semitic abuse she suffered came from the Labour Party:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciana_Berger#Antisemitic_abuse

    Moreover, she has a history of playing this oh-woe-is-me card having resigned before from the National Union of Students to protest against what she considered their “…apathy towards antisemitism.” And despite Jeremy Corbyn appointing her as his Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health in 2015, she resigned in 2016 over “…concerns about his leadership”:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciana_Berger#Antisemitic_abuse

    But since he didn’t discriminate against her when he appointed her….

    What’s her real beef with him?

    She said then it was because she didn’t like the way he handled the Brexit referendum and she also said her “…loyalty to the party must come first” before she left Labour to run and lose as a Liberal Party candidate:

    https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/luciana-berger-quits-shadow-cabinet-1.59586

    But was it instead that he wasn’t sufficiently supportive of Israel?

    “But (Corbyn) is also involved in an unprecedented confrontation with the main institutions of Britain’s Jewish community, led by the Chronicle, the Jewish Leadership Council, and the Board of Deputies of British Jews.”

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/jeremy-corbyns-anti-semitism-crisis

    “Berger became a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council in June 2019”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciana_Berger#Antisemitic_abuse

    “The Council acts as an umbrella group for various Jewish community organizations, charities, Zionist and pro-Israel advocacy groups.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Leadership_Council

    It appears she just lent her Jewish credentials to this Blairite get-Corbyn-faction to give their anti-Semitic charges against Corbyn the allure of credibility. The evil that some people do.

    So, the good Jewish Dr. Graber didn’t downplay her concerns at all.

    Since she is just a game playing liar...

    Who has made a living out of crying wolf.

    And she has fooled you in the process.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Eoghan

    "She is just a game playing liar... who has just made a living out of crying wolf".

    So you are a misoynist as well and your roping in of the Jewish Leadership Council, Jewish Chronicle (now sadly liquidated), and Board of Deputies which speak for most mainstream Jewish opinion as part of this imagined "Blairite get-Corbyn faction" betrays your thinly disguised antizionist antisemitism.

    As usual your lazy style of reply neglects some crucial factors. Luciand Berger like most of the Shadow Cabinet resigned in June 2016 because of the failure of Corbyn and his Office team to support the Remain side in the EU referendumn as well as his gross incompetence as leader.

    The issue about Labour Antisemitism is not whether Jeremy Corbyn is/was antisemitic but how an antisemitic culture ill-disguised by hostility to Zionism and the State of Israel took root and spread under his watch as Leader. The Jewish Chronicle before he became leader in September warned about such a scenario when it posed seven questions about Corbyn's history of undesirable associations with Holocuast deniers, blood libellers and 9/11 "truthers" and others in the course of his pro-Palestinian (or more accurately anti-Israeli) campaigning. He belonged to groups like Labour Committee on Palestine which sought to to drive the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends of Israel from the Labour Party.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Barry,

    You’re smoke screening again.

    The word is mi·sog·y·nis·t.

    Learn to spell and learn its meaning.

    Because how do you figure I’m prejudiced against women?

    For simply identifying a dishonest politician?

    Once again you make assertions without proof.

    Worse you continue carrying Berger’s water for her.

    Which is beyond foolish. It’s dishonest.

    Now watch this 2016 debate between Galloway vs. McTernan.

    They discuss the allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8L_Xzrgzg

    Notice the Blairite McTernan say Corbyn was incompetent.

    Because he incompetently investigated those anti-Semitism claims.

    Full well knowing he and his ilk were undermining Corbyn all along.

    Like I said, the evil that some people do (and now you do).

    Now listen to Norman Finklestein on Jews like Berger crying wolf:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEX5OGmXLz4

    And while you’re at it listen to this Anti-Zionist Jewish Rabbi:

    Rabbi Dovid Weiss: Zionism has created 'rivers of blood'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY

    He is not alone and certainly not anti-Semitic:

    Neturei Karta

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neturei_Karta

    “Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitism.”
    - Rabbi Ahron Cohen, Manchester, UK

    https://www.ihrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Against-Zionism-Rabbi-Cohen.pdf

    “We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter to those ideals.” - Jewish Voice for Peace

    https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/zionism/

    “Conflating anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred is a tragic mistake.”
    - Peter Beinart

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic

    Notorious anti-Zionist (and Tel Aviv born) Moshe Machover calls for 'overthrow' of Israeli state.

    https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/notorious-anti-zionist-moshe-machover-calls-for-overthrow-of-israeli-state-1.487894

    Yeshayahu Leibowitz - Who described Israeli conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories as "Judeo-Nazi":

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshayahu_Leibowitz

    So much for your “mainstream” Jewish opinion in the UK.

    The good Jewish Doctor Graber got it right.

    Berger is a liar just like you.



    ReplyDelete
  7. Roghan

    "Crying wolf" is an expression often used to shut down womens' claims of rape, sexual harassment made by women. Therefore it is interesting that you use that phrase to try to descredit a woman who has been the recepient of hundreds of death and rape threats from the far right and far left elements in the Labour Party (as was Ruth Smeeth) and who was heavily pregnant at the time she was getting such grief from her Momentum run CLP.

    You quote a range of cranks and outliers; in the case of Neturei Karta religious crackpots who will not recognise the State of Israel until the the seconmd coming of their Messiah and who distribute Holocaust denial material; other; Jewish Voice for Peace act as useful idiots for Islamist and far left antisemitism

    The fact is denying the right of the State of Israel to exist and calling its formation a racist enterprise is deemed antissemitic under the widely recognised International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition (wnhich Labour is signed up despite Corbyn's attempts to wriggle out of it) as is comparing Israeli policies and Zionism to Nazism. So all of the above fail the test on numerous grounds.

    I pay absolutely no heed to what George Galloway, that bottom licker of Saddam Hussein, Assad, Putin and any other anti-Western dictator or thug group says on anything. He is a carpetbagger who only exploits Muslim communities for his own personal interest. Look at how he polled in West Bromwich East at GE 19. 700+ votes. HE is an arse and an anti-choice boor to boot.

    And btw Dr Graber never called Luciana Berger or anyone else a "Liar" and also identifies as left-wing Zionist.

    And someone with your supposedly legal background should be wary of throwing "liar" accusations around.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Barry,

    “Roghan”? Hence forth, I christen you “Larry”. LOL!

    "Crying wolf" is a common expression to point out dishonest alarmists.

    It’s not unique to females.

    And you know this so stop lying.

    Because you’re the only crank & outlier here.

    Neturei Karta are committed word & deed to their Torah.

    That makes them theologically correct anti-Zionists.

    So, they distinguish between their religion and political doctrine.

    And there are lots of them, just see this picture of 20,000 of them:

    Some 20,000 anti-Zionist men gather in Brooklyn

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-ny-ultra-orthodox-jews-rally-against-idf-conscription/

    You couldn’t gather five people to watch you fuck a duck.

    So much for your “…widely recognized” definitions.

    Because I told you to hear what uber-Blairite John McTernan said...

    Not George Galloway (because I know you can't handle him).

    But there you go again dodging & diverting...

    Because you’re just an empty vessel.

    Since I never said Dr. Graber called Berger a liar.

    I called her (and you) a liar and proved it.

    As such, I’m not wary because in law truth is an affirmative defense.

    ReplyDelete