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| Exposé shows UK Labour has failed to punish members for vile anti-Semitic taunts | |||
| 2019-04-08 | |||
| [IsraelTimes] Report details cases in which little to no action was taken against members who blamed 9/11 on Jews and railed against Jewish MPs; 863 complaints have yielded just 29 expulsions. The Sunday Times said it had obtained a hard drive containing a confidential database and leaked emails and documents showing that the party ‐ long embroiled in a public scandal over its apparent failure to uproot anti-Jewish bigotry in its ranks ‐ has been dragging its feet in responding to complaints. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s office has intervened in at least 101 complaints, the report said, despite his having earlier assured Jewish MP Margaret Hodge that his team would "never" get involved in them. In all, of 863 complaints made by March 8, 2019, 454 remain unresolved, including 249 in which the party hasn’t initiated an investigation. Of the cases in which a decision was reached, 191 members faced no further action, 145 received a formal warning ‐ which the Sunday Times called "a slap on the wrist" ‐ and just 29 were expelled. Others left of their own accord. Last month, the report said, Thomas Gardiner ‐ an ally of Corbyn who heads Labour’s governance and legal unit ‐ blocked efforts to expedite proceedings against a party member who lashed out at Jewish MPs Margaret Hodge and Ruth Smeeth as "a couple of shit-stirring cum buckets bought and paid for by Israel" and "cretinous pieces of shit" who needed to "fuck off back under their stones." A Labour official ruled that a council candidate met the threshold for suspension after accusing Jewish politicians of being "Zionist infiltrators," but then decided that the accused would face no suspension and no action because he "is a candidate." In a response to the report, Jewish MP Margaret Hodge said that "the scale of the abuse, the depth of the hatred and the total lack of action by the Labour Party is astonishing. Jeremy gave me assurances that he does not intervene in complaints. This investigation proves that either he is lying to me or his office are lying to him." Alleged hate speech against Jews has been recorded within Labour since 2015, when Corbyn, a far-left politician, was elected to lead the party. The Board of Deputies of British Jews has accused Corbyn of encouraging anti-Semitic rhetoric and at times engaging in it, though he disputes the claim. Former London mayor RedKen Livingstone has recently called allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour "lies and smears" to bring down Corbyn and claimed that it is "not anti-Semitic to hate the Jews of Israel." In March, British police tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! three people near London suspected of inciting anti-Semitic hatred in the Labour Party’s ranks. The arrests were rare interventions by law enforcement against suspected propagators of anti-Semitism within the party. Following growing public scrutiny of the problem, Labour is facing the prospect of an official inquiry by the United Kingdom’s Equality and Human Right’s Commission, the main government anti-racism watchdog.
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O’Broin, who worked as a head researcher for the anti-Israel Badil organization as late as 2011, was filmed by fellow passengers telling flight attendants that she is a “leader of the f***ing boycott movement,” clapping in the air in front of a crew member. She added: “If I say boycott f***ing Air India, done. Do you understand me? You can’t give me a wee bottle of wine?” Earlier in her rant, O’Broin, who co-authored a research paper with former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories, said: “Do you treat business class passengers like that? Who are international criminal lawyers for the Palestinian people?”
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