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Information Clearing House ✒ I recently published for the Middle East Eye website a detailed analysis of last week’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the question of whether the UK Labour Party had an especial antisemitism problem. (You can read a slightly fuller version of that article on my website.) 

Jonathan Cook
 In the piece, I reached two main conclusions. 

First, the commission’s headline verdict – though you would never know it from reading the media’s coverage – was that no case was found that Labour suffered from “institutional antisemitism”.

That, however, was precisely the claim that had been made by groups like the Jewish Labour Movement, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Board of Deputies and prominent rabbis such as Ephraim Mirvis. Their claims were amplified by Jewish media outlets such as the Jewish Chronicle and individual journalists such as Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian. All are now shown to have been wrong, to have maligned the Labour Party and to have irresponsibly inflamed the concerns of Britain’s wider Jewish community.

Not that any of these organisations or individuals will have to apologise. 
 
Continue reading @ Information Clearing House.

UK Equalities Commission's Labour Antisemitism Report Is The Real 'Political Interference’

Information Clearing House ✒ I recently published for the Middle East Eye website a detailed analysis of last week’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the question of whether the UK Labour Party had an especial antisemitism problem. (You can read a slightly fuller version of that article on my website.) 

Jonathan Cook
 In the piece, I reached two main conclusions. 

First, the commission’s headline verdict – though you would never know it from reading the media’s coverage – was that no case was found that Labour suffered from “institutional antisemitism”.

That, however, was precisely the claim that had been made by groups like the Jewish Labour Movement, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Board of Deputies and prominent rabbis such as Ephraim Mirvis. Their claims were amplified by Jewish media outlets such as the Jewish Chronicle and individual journalists such as Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian. All are now shown to have been wrong, to have maligned the Labour Party and to have irresponsibly inflamed the concerns of Britain’s wider Jewish community.

Not that any of these organisations or individuals will have to apologise. 
 
Continue reading @ Information Clearing House.
British Labour Party and Anti-Semitism

1 comment:

  1. Barry Gilheany4:41 PM, November 12, 2020

    Labour set up the Equalities and Human Rights Commission as a statutory, investigative body and Labour was found to have been institutionally antisemitic in the way it dealt with complaints from its Jewish members and with the mountain of evidence submitted by the JLM, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Professor Alan Johnson and others No amount of conspiratorial eyewash from Paul Cook such as the "influence of the mainstream media (spare us the QAnon style narrative)can disprove that central conclusion.

    Despite all the cry wolf slurs that Corbyn's defenders have levelled at the process and outcome about it being a plot by the Israeli embassy to take down Dear Sainted Leader, they do not have a scintilla of evidence to prove any sort of conspiracy as, despite Corbynite protestations to the contrary, none of the complainants to the EHRC are agents or representatives of the State of Israel.

    It is noteworthy that Jeremy's comrades in the Socialist Campaign Group have been largely silent on the report. They know in their hearts that the conclusions of the Report were damning and, if nothing else, they may be realising that left-wing antisemitism exists and has always done so (the "socialism of fools" that Beber in the 19th century called it) because of the allegorical connections between Jews and control of money pace the notorious Mear One mural in Tower Hamlets.

    This was Jeremy Corbyn's Chilcott moment.

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