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Thread #160410   Message #3836317
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
02-Feb-17 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Labour party discussion
Subject: RE: BS: Labour party discussion
A report links Labour Party anti-Semitism to a sudden increase in Anti-Semitic attacks in UK.

Telegraph today.
"Anti-Semitic incidents within the Labour party contributed to a record rise in attacks on Jews in the UK last year, a charity report has found.
The Community Security Trust (CST) warned that anti-Semitism increased to "unprecedented" levels between 2014 and 2016 following a string of high-profile problems in Jeremy Corbyn's party.
The charity revealed its highest monthly total for attacks came in May last year, just days after Naz Shah, a Labour MP, was suspended from the party alongside Ken Livingstone the former London mayor.

Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, vowed to fight against anti-Semitismin the party as a result of the findings, while MP John Mann said the report must act as a "stark warning that something must change".

The Jewish community was targeted at a rate of more than three times a day last year, the CST found. It recorded 1,309 anti-Semitic incidents nationwide during 2016. This was a 36 per cent increase on 2015 and surpassed the previous highest annual tally of 1,182 in 2014.
There was no obvious single cause for the record total last year, the report found, but it added that problems within the Labour party "may have contributed in a more indirect way". The party was forced to confront a series of incidents of anti-Semitism last year including remarks made by members on Twitter and at public meetings."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/02/labour-party-linked-increase-anti-semitic-incidents-according/