Jeremy Corbyn under fire from staff and Labour peers over Antisemitism

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/15/labour-staffers-letter-jeremy-corbyn-whistleblowers ^ | 15 July 2019 | Rowena Mason and Jessica Elgot

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Labour is to hold an extraordinary shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to address concerns on antisemitism and Corbyn will address MPs on the issue on the same day.

The party leader and his shadow ministers are raking over the fallout from the BBC’s Panorama programme on Labour antisemitism. Labour’s leaders in the House of Lords issued a veiled challenge to Corbyn’s authority on Monday, warning him that without decisive leadership antisemitism was a “cancer that will continue to grow”.

“Labour is taking decisive action against antisemitism, doubling the number of staff dedicated to dealing with complaints and cases. And since Jennie Formby became general secretary, the rate at which antisemitism cases have been dealt with has increased fourfold.”

[353FMG]

A great blessing is that all Jews have a wonderful homeland to go to. Pretty soon, France will be Judenfrei and it will be brainless. The remaining French may have to migrate to Algeria where they feel more at home.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Don’t understand why it is the anti-semitism thing that is what JC’s hopes of becoming PM are imploding over when his treasonous attitude to supporting the IRA from the 1970s right the way up to the present day should have killed it before it even started. Treason and hatred of your own country isn’t considered an impediment to a successful career at the top tier of national politics any more obviously.

[Amberdawn]

Corbyn is an old school Stalinist and as odious as George Galloway. They both allied themselves with muslim voters in the UK and act accordingly. Neither will condemn anti-Semitism as a result.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Galloway is staunchly pro-Brexit though. Probably his one redeeming feature.

[Amberdawn]

I’m surprised.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The old, traditional left used to be very anti-EU until Blair came along and embraced it. Galloway is a holdout of the ‘old left’. I actually prefer the old left to the virtue signalling, degenerate neo-left that espouses hypocrisy, idpol and globalism. At least the old left represented by people like Galloway, Tony Benn, and Dennis Skinner recognise the importance of nation-states with governments that are accountable to the people they govern rather than corporations and globalist elites for whom the EU is a vehicle to their ambitions.