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Thread #159827   Message #3791503
Posted By: Steve Shaw
22-May-16 - 07:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
I note also that the London Declaration and the Ottawa Protocol both endorse this document that its own originators have now dismissed out of hand:

2010 London Declaration:

"Governments must expand the use of the EUMC 'Working Definition of antisemitism' to inform policy of national and international organisations and as a basis for training material for use by Criminal Justice Agencies"

Ottawa Protocol (among other references):

"Universities should use the EUMC Working Definition of Antisemitism as a basis for education, training and orientation."

Well I wonder whether either of these organisations has reconvened in the light of the abandoning of the document they wanted to lean on so heavily. Actually, had I been of suspicious mind I could even have detected sinister undertones in those two quotes.

Do you know why the document is no longer accepted, Keith? Because of concerns that certain statements therein could be construed as attempts to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel, that's why. And that's why, contrary to your claim, it is not universally accepted. There is much good stuff in there but the baby had to be thrown out with the bathwater, which had an unpleasant stench about it.