JohnMann set to expose hate trolls

JOHN MANN, the Labour MP, has vowed to name and shame trolls who accused him of being part of a “conspiracy” after he publicly challenged former London Mayor Ken Livingstone for claiming Hitler supported Zionism.

Mr Mann, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, said he would publish the names of people who sent him abusive message over email and Twitter later this year.

Speaking at an Israel charity event this week, Mr Mann said: “The world can judge why on this issue, but on no other, I am accused of being part of a conspiracy.”

The JC understands that Mr Mann met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday night to discuss the the rise of antisemitism within the party.

Mr Corbyn this week was accused of sponsoring a conference which called on the Labour Party to disaffiliate from its Jewish arm, Poale Zion, and denounced “the Zionist state as racist”.

The Labour leader was listed as a sponsor of the Labour Movement Conference on Palestine in 1984, which also asked the party to “recognise the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”

Documents were posted online by Tony Greenstein, the Jewish founder of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who was suspended by Labour in March.

Organised by the Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the London branch of the PLO, the conference called “for the disaffiliation of Poale Zion from the Labour Party”.

Poale Zion, the forerunner to the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), had been affiliated with the party for 64 years.

Jon Lansman, the founder of the hard-left Momentum group has criticised the decision of his group to host a discussion on antisemitism in Labour during Shabbat.

Mr Lansman said the timing of the meeting, on Friday evening, was “regrettable and unfortunate”, and could prevent observant Jews from attending.

“I’m not happy about it but it is important not to shut down debate around these issues.”

However, Jeremy Newmark, head of theJewishLabourMovement,described the timing as “crass and insensitive”.

A spokesman for Haringey’s Momentum branch said the event had been moved to 6.30pm and would finish by 8.15pm, giving observant Jews 30 minutes to get home before Shabbat.

He added: “We apologise if anybody felt excluded by the previous scheduling.”