Anti-hate charity told to alter Corbyn petition

THE CHARITY commission has intervened in response to a complaint against Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), instructing it to change the wording of a petition it published calling for the removal of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.

The commission opened an investigation into the CAA in August after receiving complaints about an online petition the charity had started.

CAA posted the petition following a revelation that Mr Corbyn had made comments about Zionists not understanding “English irony”.

The petition, which has received over 47,000 signatures to date, says Mr Corbyn, while a backbench MP, “blamed Islamist terrorist attacks on Israel; defended an appalling antisemitic mural; honoured a sheikh banned from the UK for saying that Jews drink non-Jews’ blood; said that a Hamas terrorist whose life’s work was the murder of Jews was his ‘brother’; held a repulsive event on Holocaust Memorial Day in which Jews were accused of being the successors to the Nazis; tried to have the word ‘Holocaust’ removed from the title of Holocaust Memorial Day; laid a wreath at a memorial for the Black September terrorists behind the Munich Massacre; and now we have heard that he made euphemistic comments to suggest that Jews are somehow un-British and foreign to the ways of our country.”

However, after the Charity Committee’s intervention, the title of the petition has been changed from “Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemite and must go” to “Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemite and the Labour Party must act”. Any statement directly calling for him to step The CAA petition on Change.org