Labours ongoing anti semitism row

robel

"Rather than seek unity, the Corbynite approach has been to let his followers threaten and vilify a frightened minority into silence. The leadership has also promoted Jewish Voice for Labour, a tiny group of hard-left Jews founded last year to challenge the mainstream community leadership. The upshot is that the party is creating the conditions for the kind of split which poses the greatest threat to election victory — and all for an avoidable row over the definition of anti-Semitism. This tells us a lot about Mr Corbyn. His party is in touching distance of power, yet he is ready to risk it all for the purity of his ideals."

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Bl4ckGryph0n

And the story just keeps on rolling. This loud mouthed bullied says he is false represented. Yeah right.

Peter Willsman’s rant points to a Labour party still blind to antisemitism | Gaby Hinsliff

Bl4ckGryph0n

And if never ends. Apparently Jeremy Corbyn is sorry for sharing platforms with people whose views he reject.

Jeremy Corbyn 'sorry' for sharing conference platform with anti-Zionist speaker

Taking it at face value; bad judgement and investigation beforehand to get involved.

Not taking it at face value; it’s easy to say sorry. Sorry that he has been found out. Sorry that he is drawing all this attention. His actions don’t suggest he is sorry at all.

The guy got to go if labour wants to stand a chance for ever winning.

The Dude

If we think about it, for a protester like Corbyn 'leader of the opposition' is the best gig in politics. He's actually got a better platform to shout from than if he was PM, as his ideology gets free reign without the inconvenient shackles of accountability.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, as far as  I can see Corbyn has no intention of ever being prime minister and this is Labours biggest problem by far. When your party leader regards a close defeat as victory, purely because it means he'll be the leader for the next close defeat, and the one after that....

He clearly won't be jumping any time soon, so it looks like he'll need a helping hand from somewhere.

Bl4ckGryph0n

Hopefully some more people with integrity in Labour will stand up against him. Somehow I doubt it.

SteakAndCake

Labour will need to split for that to work.  Momentum won't allow anybody to usurp Corbyn.

It really feels like the two main parties need to become 4 main parties.  

You have the Anti EU Tories
Pro EU Tories

Hard Left Momentum Labour
Moderate Blairite Labour

I really can't see how the divisions in either party will reconcile.  They're fundamentally ideologically opposed.  

Neither can lead a country when they're ripping themselves apart.  

It would be interesting to see if the Pro EU Tories could find some unity with the Labour moderates and create some form of functioning centrist party leaving the far left and far right where they belong, in the margins.

maddy

But it's all ok in his eyes - this "apology" is prefaced with him displaying that he's a good person (pursuit of justice) and so trying to put himself in a good light before saying sorry.  

His only principles are that he detests the western economic and social structure and so aligns himself with anyone who feels the same way irrespective of how odious they are.

The man is a dangerous fantasist.

robel

James O´Brien on LBC said quite rightly that Labour were not adopting the full IHRA definition because if they did Corbyn as well as many others will be found guilty of Anti Semitism….

BobbyMac

Was the meeting an official HOC event?

robel

"Early in Jeremy Corbyn’s term as Labour leader, I remember watching clips of a phone-in he hosted for Press TV, Iran’s official television channel. (These have now been deleted from YouTube.) In one, he listened politely as a caller described Israel as a “disease” – not agreeing, but not disagreeing either – and replied: “OK, thank you for your call”. Another caller described the BBC as “Zionist liars”, to equally little reaction.

In another case, which I tweeted about, The Canary claimed that “36 international Jewish groups” had backed Corbyn over the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. A closer look at the groups revealed them to be tiny, overlapping fringe organisations, often containing the same left-wing activists whose comments were under investigation."

On Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism, is there is anything left to say?