About time. I wonder what made them decide to stop ignoring the problem.
[IsraelTimes] Dossier said to detail social media posts by party members, including one that read, ’We shall rid the Jews who are a cancer on us all’
British police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the opposition Labour Party.
The Metropolitan Police said Friday that it was acting on a dossier of information given to London police chief Cressida Dick. A police front man said it was handed to her on September 4 following an interview on LBC radio.
LBC had in its possession an internal Labour Party dossier that detailed 45 cases involving social media posts by party members, including one post that read: "We shall rid the Jews who are a cancer on us all."
The police statement said the person making the complaint "alleged that the documentation included evidence of anti-Semitic hate crimes. The contents have been examined by specialist officers. A criminal investigation has commenced into some of the allegations within the documentation."
Police said they were seeking "early investigative advice" from the Crown Prosecution Service.
Dick told BBC radio there was evidence a crime may have been committed, based on the material given to her.
"If somebody passes us material which they say amounts to a crime we have a duty to look at that and not just dismiss it," she said.
"We have been assessing some material that was passed to me, in a radio studio of all things, about two months ago and we are now investigating some of that material, because it appears there may have been crime committed."
Police did not provide details about the possible hate crimes detailed in the dossier.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been dogged for the last two years by complaints of anti-Semitism within party ranks, as well as allegations that he too holds anti-Semitic views. He has said the party deplores all forms of racism.
Dick said Labour as a whole was not under investigation.
"We are not going to investigate the Labour Party. We would always want institutions and political parties and similar to be able to regulate themselves," she said. "I hope we will be able to clear that up very quickly."
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson told BBC radio that the investigation was "thoroughly depressing, although sadly I’m not surprised.
"If people have committed hate crimes, then they need to be dealt with by the full force of the law," he said. "There’s no role for them within the Labour Party.
"If this does one thing, it will be able to silence a very small number of people who still believe that anti-Semitism doesn’t exist in my party," which he said was hampering efforts to stamp out the problem.
Labour said it had not been contacted by the police but stood ready to cooperate with the investigation.
"The Labour Party has a robust system for investigating complaints of alleged breaches of Labour Party rules by its members," a front man said. "Where someone feels they have been a victim of crime, they should report it to the police in the usual way."
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Lots of smirking on the left when it's some angry mum spouting off on the subway or Tommy Robinson being locked up. In this instance, not so much. But the ruling class will get a pass. They always do.
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Alinsky 'em. Make 'em live by the same rules
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This seems to have escaped the attention of both the Beeb and Al-Graudian. Now if Trump's second cousin twice removed had said any of these slurs...
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[AlAhram] Twitter on Saturday said it deleted a "series of accounts" that attempted to share disinformation, ahead of crucial midterm elections, as media reports said thousands of accounts were axed.
The social media company "removed a series of accounts for engaging in attempts to share disinformation in an automated fashion -- a violation of our policies," it confirmed to AFP without giving a number.
Twitter said it has established "open lines of communication" for state election officials, Republican and Democratic campaign officials, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Reports said many of the accounts were posing as Democrats, posting tweets encouraging US voters to sit out Tuesday's ballot.
CNN said the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had alerted Twitter to the accounts, which were removed in late September and early October.
For months, Twitter has sought to eliminate automated and bogus accounts designed to manipulate the public conversation on the platform, in response to concerns over Russian interference in the 2016 election.
In October it said its number of active users fell by nine million in the previous quarter as a result of these efforts.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... recently complained that Twitter was removing some of his followers.
[TheHill] In a statement, a representative from Twitter said the phrase should not have appeared on the trending topic list and that "we’re sorry for this mistake."
"This was trending as a result of coverage and horrified reactions to the vandalism against a synagogue in New York," it said. "Regardless, it should not have appeared as a trend."
"At times, we do prevent certain content from trending and we have now done so with this trend."
BuzzFeed first reported on Twitter's statement.
The phrase began trending after it was discovered written inside of a New York City synagogue Thursday.
The New York Police Department said that and other anti-Semitic messages were discovered in the stairwell of the Union Temple in Brooklyn Heights.
"Broad City" star Ilana Glazer canceled a political event scheduled there Thursday night after the vandalism was found.
#4
Major shareholder in Twitter, Prince Al Waleed Talal, was interviewed by Maria Bartilomo on Fox this am--nervous as hell & with neurological tics. Said all was forgiven and forgotten for hanging him upside down, avoided answers regarding stockholdings in Twitter, Citigroup, and Newscorp....but the prayer beads were overworked. Taqqiya to save his butt?
[Huffpoo] Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Friday recalled the day known as "Bloody Sunday" ― when he and several hundred others marched the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama in 1965 ― while campaigning for Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Georgia.
"I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, 53 years ago," Lewis told the crowd at a rally. "I almost died. Some of my friends and colleagues were murdered in Mississippi and other places."
The congressman and voting rights activist was 25 years old when he had his head fractured by law enforcement officers while peacefully marching along the bridge over the Alabama River to Montgomery in March 7, 1965. The march intended to call attention to black disenfranchisement in the South and followed the slaying of activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was shot by a state trooper during a peaceful civil rights protest.
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Lewis is invoking images of the civil rights marchs in Selma in 1965. If Lewis had his head cracked in the old South during this march, it was most likely by a Southern Democrat--maybe by a Klan member. Maybe even a grand dragon like Senator Robert Byrd; Hillary's mentor in the Senate.
#3
That was 53 years ago. The world has changed. He needs to retire.
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#4
How much longer are we going to let blacks ride the racism pony to the ATM of white guilt? When everything is racist, nothing is racist. Wake up libtards, you are being played like a kazoo.
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