Nor did Livingstone’s views stop the party from making him the chair of its International Policy Commission, which helps develop Labour’s policy on foreign affairs.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said late Friday that the probe will be headed by Shami Chakrabarti, former director of the human-rights advocacy group Liberty.
“Labour is an anti-racist party to its core and has a long and proud history of standing against racism, including anti-Semitism”, Corbyn said.
The former London mayor was suspended from the Labour party on Thursday after saying Hitler had supported Zionism in the 1930s.
Speaking to The Tablet Dr Jane Clements said that not only is anti-Semitism on the rise in the United Kingdom, but “it has never really gone away”.
Livingstone said he would “invite the prime minister of Israel to come over and defend me, as he clearly agrees with what I said”, according to The Telegraph.
Israel’s Labour leader Isaac Herzog also said he had been “appalled and outraged by the recent examples of anti-Semitism by senior Labour Party officials”.
As STV reported on Thursday, Kezia Dugdale was among a number of Labour voices calling for Ken Livingstone to be suspended before the call was eventually made. Corbyn has said that anti-semitism will not be tolerated but some MPs say he is not doing enough to stamp it out. Livingstone said Saturday, adding that he had only made a “statement of fact” concerning Hitler that had been seized on by his political enemies, so called “embittered old Blairites”, to stir up trouble.
“I’m really sorry to Jeremy and to the Labour Party while they’re campaigning, I got caught up in all of this”. I’m going to report this to the police.
Utterly, totally unexpected developments are occurring in Britain’s Labour Party, which is led by Jeremy Corbyn, a man who once described Osama bin Laden’s death as “an assassination attempt, and. yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy”.
Announcing the review and proposed tighter party rules, he said the party had taken ” decisive action” over allegations of anti-Semitism in the ranks, which have mounted during his time in charge.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said: “We hope that the new inquiry will mark the beginning of a more certain and clear Labour attitude against anti-Semitism, from the leader to the grassroots, including clarity about people and groups with whom it is not appropriate to share panels”.
Mr Netanyahu provoked a storm of criticism past year when he suggested the Second World War Palestinian grand mufti of Jerusalem suggested the genocide of the Jews to Adolf Hitler in 1941. Today he has claimed that Hitler was a Zionist and that anti-Semitism is not racism.
Mr McCluskey said any threats were unacceptable but that Mr Mann’s behaviour was “as bizarre” as Mr Livingstone’s comments. I don’t believe the polls. I imagine, although I have no window into Corbyn’s soul, that he finds it hard to condemn “left-wing” anti-Semitism unequivocally because he regards it as a right-wing smear against people like him who support the Palestinian cause and who regard the government of Israel as very bad.
A series of Labour members have been suspended from the party for attacks on Israel and allegations of Jew-hate.
“He keeps saying he wants to be in his garden”. The party’s National Executive will decide Livingstone’s fate.
In his first television interview since arriving in London, Mr Regev told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that modern antisemites were targeting “the collective Jew”.
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“He therefore crossed a line into certainly what most people would regard as distinctly anti-Semitic”.
