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Thread #159827   Message #3811529
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
27-Sep-16 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Guardian yesterday,
"Wes Streeting, the Labour MP who chairs the all-party group on British Jews, said on Monday it was wrong to suggest Labour was a "hotbed of antisemitism", but nonetheless had a problem it needed to tackle.

Streeting told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a leaflet distributed outside the Momentum event labelled the Jewish Labour Movement "a representative of a foreign power, Israel". He said: "This isn't ambiguous. This is a classic antisemitic trope, at our conference."

Streeting said Corbyn could do more to tackle the issue: "They're not going to listen to people like me. But they do place a lot of faith and stock in Jeremy.

"And as someone who has a track record of tackling racism and discrimination, he has in the past year had a golden opportunity he hasn't yet taken up to show real leadership on this and to help navigate through some of the problems that we face in terms of antisemitism."

Another Labour MP, Luciana Berger, told Today: "There are too many examples of where my Jewish parliamentary colleagues, where my Jewish council colleagues, where Jewish members have been attacked because they are Jewish. We need to stamp it out." "
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/26/corbyn-urged-to-show-leadership-in-tackling-antisemitism-within-labour-wes-streeting-labour