(Jewish Group) Why the Jewish Labour Movement has no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn

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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Yesterday’s Sunday Times carried some of the most appalling examples of Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis seen to date. What was so offensive was not just the ugly, racist insults themselves, but the reaction of the party’s and leadership’s hierarchy to them. Add them to the pile. Don’t fast-track anything.

The Sunday Times claimed a total of 249 cases of alleged anti-Semitism had been reported to the party and not acted on. It was clear was that the party’s defence – that everything had changed since the appointment of Jenny Formby as general secretary last year – simply doesn’t hold water.

Perhaps the most offensive case reported yesterday relates to a shocking email sent in February to two Jewish MPs: our new parliamentary chair, Ruth Smeeth, and Margaret Hodge. Given the highly misogynist as well as anti-Semitic language used in the email, a junior member of staff allegedly sought to prioritise action against the perpetrator – but was rebuffed by the head of complaints.

So, just a matter of weeks ago, the “newly- fixed, free of political interference” complaints system was found to be as compromised and failing as it has been over the past few years.

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