Samuel_1 wrote:Moggy wrote:Samuel_1 wrote:https://antisemitism.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Antisemitism-Barometer-2017.pdfThis research is a couple of years old, but what it shows it that the Tories and certain sections of the media have deliberately weaponized the issue of antisemitism to use against the Labour party. There are examples of such behaviour in the Labour party and such behaviour should be eradicated. However, the research actually reveals that AS is more prevalent among Conservatives. It also shows that the perception of the public is that Labour has more of a problem with the issue. This is simply indicates that the Conservative party and the right wing press have been effective in their spurious narrative.
How about their current verdict on Labour?
The supposedly anti-racist Labour Party has shamed itself by failing to firmly and consistently address antisemitism, even proving incapable of expelling a Holocaust revisionist, a senior MP who said that “Jewish money” controls the Conservative Party, and another prominent official who claimed that Jews were “among the chief financiers of the slave trade”. It has compounded its antisemitism problem by shrouding all disciplinary matters in secrecy under guidelines introduced in the wake of Baroness Chakrabarti’s report into antisemitism, thus concealing the fact that it has failed to address antisemitism within its ranks. Furthermore, senior figures commonly deploy the so-called ‘Livingstone Formulation’ to claim that the Jewish community’s collective complaints of antisemitism are essentially fabricated for concealed political purposes. The Labour Party has adopted the International Definition of Antisemitism.
https://antisemitism.uk/politics/labour/
Looking through that, the vast majority of cases take place before the publication of the linked research. I did say there are instances of AS in the party that need to be dealt with. I am not belittling the magnitude of the problem, I am pointing out that the prevailing narrative, that Labour are more antisemitic than other parties, is false. I assume you have seen Boris and others in the Tory leadership, call out Labour for their horrendous antisemitism? They are clearly using it as a weapon, in reality they do not care about the subject, it is a stick to beat an opponent with.
The website you linked to doesn’t show that it’s false to say Labour are more antisemitic. The other parties have their problems with it, but Labour take a massive bashing from that website.
I don’t doubt Johnson is using it as a weapon and I don’t believe Johnson cares. But that site shows there is a very real problem there, far greater than you are making out. And, again, that was the site you linked to.
