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Thread #164798   Message #3948118
Posted By: Iains
04-Sep-18 - 04:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: The UK Labour Party and Antisemitism.
Subject: RE: BS: The UK Labour Party and Antisemitism.
Well Jim, the Israeli justice minister will garner very little support for his ridiculous assertion. Criticism of Israeli politics is a very different proposition to criticising Jews and the IHRA working definition on Antisemitism clearly differentiates between the two concepts.
It is also worth noting that On 1 June 2017, the European Parliament adopted its first ever resolution on combating Antisemitism, including the IHRA working definition on Antisemitism.
This resolution would clearly put Labour in dispute with the EU had it not adopted the definition today.
I would have thought the Labour leadership would have foreseen this problem as soon as the the European Parliament adopted its first ever resolution on combating Antisemitism, including the IHRA working definition. That was back in June 2017. So instead of acting like a credible opposition party for the last year, they have been busy ripping themselves apart over an issue that the eu WOULD HAVE RAMMED DOWN THEIR COLLECTIVE THROAT ANYWAY. This does make a person wonder just what planet the Labour leadership inhabit. I am sure my conclusions must be shared by many. We saw what happened in Catalonia when the party tried to thwart the EU, would Labour kid themselves they would fare any better?

As a total aside.
(RT 2 hours ago reports they are trying a second time for independance and their is talk of a referendum for more autonomy)