THE ANTI SEMITISM DOSSIER OF SHAME
Exposed by Labour whistleblowers, full sickening charge sheet of vile abuse in their own party
VERBAL ABUSE AT MEETINGS
÷ Such abuse is now a ‘common experience’ for Jews at Labour constituency events – to the extent that some Jewish members no longer feel able to attend. ÷ One member listed 22 examples of abuse at meetings including ‘Tory Jew’, ‘child killer’, ‘Zio scum’, being told that he’s ‘good with money’ and that ‘Hitler was right’. ÷ Members defended an individual who repeated an anti-Semitic trope that it’s ‘the over-representation of Jews in the capitalist ruling class that gives the IsraelZionist lobby its power’. ÷ One member claimed: ‘The only reason we have prostitutes in Seven Sisters [North London} is because of the Jews’. ÷ A Jewish councillor who was deselected was told at a Labour meeting to ‘go home and count their money’. ÷ A member shouted at a Jewish member: ‘Don’t you feel responsible for Israel?’ and told him he should be ‘ashamed’. ÷ A 16-year-old member of the JLM was called a racist for handing out leaflets saying all forms of discrimination should be prohibited in Labour. He was told the JLM was ‘financed and controlled by the Israeli government’ and one member tried to grab his phone. ÷ At Labour’s conference a Jewish member sat at a table where delegates described Jews as ‘subhuman’, and said they ‘didn’t deserve to be allowed to define what constitutes anti-Semitism’ and should ‘be grateful we don’t make them eat bacon for breakfast every day’. ÷ One former staffer of the leader’s office reported that he had been subjected to an ‘inquisition’ about being Jewish, including his views on Israel.
RELENTLESS ABUSE ONLINE
÷ A Jewish member was told online they were a ‘ZioNazi’. ÷ Another member referred to ‘cockroaches of the Jew kind’, claimed Jews were organising white genocide and said that Zionists ran camps in the Holocaust. ÷A Jewish member was told that the Jewish community had ‘work to do’ to rebuild trust with Labour. ÷ One parliamentary candidate was accused of providing ‘sexual favours’ to the Israeli lobby. ÷ Another Jewish candidate was told: ‘You and your Zionist cult are NOT welcome. This is London. Not Tel Aviv.’ ÷ Images have been shared online accusing Jews of being Right-wing, controlling the banks and media, being controlled by Israel, being connected to Mossad, the CIA or MI5, and being connected to Islamic State or 9/11. ÷ Others deny the Holocaust, compare the Jews to the Nazis, refer to Jews as traitors or ‘bent-nosed manipulative liars’ and ‘kike’ or ‘yid’. ÷ Images shared online include yellow stars of David dripping with blood, caricatures of Jewish people with exaggerated hooked noses, and an alien creature tattooed with the Star of David covering the face of the Statue of Liberty.
JEWS REFUSED MEMBERSHIP
÷ The membership secretary in the South Tottenham constituency objected to 25 applications for membership from the ultra-orthodox Jewish community, and required home visits to these prospective members’ houses. ÷ Constituency meetings in various places were held on Friday night and Saturdays to stop observant Jews from attending. ÷ This year’s party conference pushed through controversial rule changes to its disciplinary procedures on a Saturday. ÷ Vote of no confidence in Jewish MP Louise Ellman was scheduled on the eve of Yom Kippur.
CORBYN BACKS ANTI-SEMITES
÷ Prior to his election as leader, Mr Corbyn defended Stephen Sizer, who posted anti-Semitic material online for which he was disciplined by church authorities. ÷ He wrote the foreword to a book which argued that banks and the Press were controlled by Jews. ÷ Mr Corbyn supported Paul Eisen, a self-professed Holocaust denier, including attending several events by a group led by him. ÷ Supported the artist Mear One who painted an antiSemitic mural showing hooknosed bankers playing
Monopoly on the backs of the world’s poor. ÷ Attended an event in 2010 on Holocaust Memorial Day entitled ‘Auschwitz to Gaza: Never Again for Anyone’ during which Israel was compared to the Nazis. ÷ In 2014 Mr Corbyn laid a wreath yards from the graves of terrorists linked to the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. ÷ He commented that ‘Zionists ... don’t understand English irony despite having lived in the country for a long time’. ÷ After he became leader, he resisted Labour’s adoption of the official definition of anti-Semitism. ÷ Defended MP Chris Williamson over claims of anti-Semitism weeks before he was suspended, saying ‘He is not anti-Semitic in any way’.
COVER-UPS BY CORBYN OFFICE
÷ Members of Mr Corbyn’s office requested the party revoke the punishment of a member suspended for antiSemitic posts because he was ‘on friendly terms with’ the leader. ÷ One staffer said: ‘It became increasingly common for those under investigation to email the Leader of the Opposition or a member of the National Executive Committee and, if they were high status enough, the case would disappear’. ÷ Thomas Gardiner, a Corbyn ally, ordered that batches of complaints be uploaded onto USB sticks and delivered to Corbyn staff to ‘make recommendations regarding further action’. A staffer reported that she was ‘instructed to lie to anyone who asked her where she was going, or what she was doing, when delivering the USB sticks.’ ÷ The party refused to publish a report into anti-Semitism at Oxford. ÷ There are no credible figures on the number of cases of anti-Semitism.
LENIENT SENTENCES
÷It took eight months for the party to suspend Holocaust denier Alan Bull – while the two councillors who had exposed him were driven out of the party. ÷ Activist Vicki Kirby was suspended for posting a series of tweets claiming Adolf Hitler was the ‘Zionist God’ - but was later hired by Corbyn aide Jennie Formby, in her capacity as a regional secretary for trade union Unite, as a regional officer. ÷ Apsana Begum was appointed a Labour candidate despite sharing posts about ‘Zionist masters’. ÷ Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt was selected as a candidate despite having claimed Jewish MP John Bercow had ‘Zionist sympathies’. ÷ Jared O’Mara was immediately suspended over misogynistic and homophobic tweets, but it took a year to suspend Chris Williamson over anti-Semitism. ÷ Ken Livingstone was never expelled despite saying ‘Hitler supported Zionism before he went mad’. A former Labour official said senior members of Mr Corbyn’s team had described calls for Mr Corbyn to be suspended as part of a ‘Jewish conspiracy’. ÷ No action was originally taken against NEC member Pete Willsman despite him saying those who complained about anti-Semitism were ‘Trump fanatics’.