If anyone thinks that anti-Semitism claims are a comparatively new phenomena in the Labour Party.
Well here's an older news story from November 2017 featuring Harriet Harman that I was reminded of when reviewing un-posted stories .
Now Harriet Harman is not a politician or woman I could ever find it easy to like .... and back in 2017 she retold a holocaust 'joke' on TV. This is something she would have screamed blue murder about if any Tory politician had done it. But as with most left-wing hypocrites, there's one rule for others, and another for themselves. She claimed that the jokes were just her examples of jokes she thought 'hurtful and offensive' and would object to if anyone (other than her presumably) told.
She even said that the poor taste joke was one that the TV show host, Andrew Neil would 'find acceptable' ... (hinting that he was the sort of man to make these sorts of jokes 'back in the day', when he was a student, and these were presumably acceptable in non labour circles). Mr Neil wasn't amused, and nor were the TV audience when she proceeded with telling the joke, involving how many Jews could travel in a small car (it involved an ashtray).
She was prevented from telling the second joke and told to stay silent .... anti-Semitism on the left of the Labour Party was a growing issue in the Labour Party, and one would think she might have been fighting that, not offending more Jewish people in a cack handed attempt to explain why she wasn't a humourless feminist when she objected to jokes etc.
The Jewish Leadership Council later said it was a "staggering error of judgement" to repeat it "irrespective of the point she was trying to make".
But just a few months later ..... the Labour Labour NEC Working Group on Anti-Semitism held a meeting on the 9th of May 2018 about anti-Semitism, at Labour HQ in London, and when the Jewish Labour Movement turned up they were barred from entry.
The affiliate group, which has been affiliated to the Labour Party for nearly 100 years (under the name Poale Zion until 2004), claimed that they had been invited but to no avail .... after an hour of waiting one of the group tweeted: “To my great disappointment the Labour NEC Working Group on Antisemitism have been meeting for one hour now. We, @JewishLabour, have been waiting patiently for an hour. We will not be allowed in. They are discussing antisemitism without the only Jewish affiliate.”
You can't make this up. The Labour Party said it was a misunderstanding and that an invite had been sent to the Jewish Labour Movement separately for a meeting with new General Secretary Jennie Formby to discuss anti-Semitism in the party.
Even now, a year later the Labour Party under Corbyn is looking rotten to the core. Would Ed Milliband it's last Jewish leader, have been told it was all a misunderstanding as well?
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Well here's an older news story from November 2017 featuring Harriet Harman that I was reminded of when reviewing un-posted stories .
Now Harriet Harman is not a politician or woman I could ever find it easy to like .... and back in 2017 she retold a holocaust 'joke' on TV. This is something she would have screamed blue murder about if any Tory politician had done it. But as with most left-wing hypocrites, there's one rule for others, and another for themselves. She claimed that the jokes were just her examples of jokes she thought 'hurtful and offensive' and would object to if anyone (other than her presumably) told.
She even said that the poor taste joke was one that the TV show host, Andrew Neil would 'find acceptable' ... (hinting that he was the sort of man to make these sorts of jokes 'back in the day', when he was a student, and these were presumably acceptable in non labour circles). Mr Neil wasn't amused, and nor were the TV audience when she proceeded with telling the joke, involving how many Jews could travel in a small car (it involved an ashtray).
She was prevented from telling the second joke and told to stay silent .... anti-Semitism on the left of the Labour Party was a growing issue in the Labour Party, and one would think she might have been fighting that, not offending more Jewish people in a cack handed attempt to explain why she wasn't a humourless feminist when she objected to jokes etc.
The Jewish Leadership Council later said it was a "staggering error of judgement" to repeat it "irrespective of the point she was trying to make".
But just a few months later ..... the Labour Labour NEC Working Group on Anti-Semitism held a meeting on the 9th of May 2018 about anti-Semitism, at Labour HQ in London, and when the Jewish Labour Movement turned up they were barred from entry.
The affiliate group, which has been affiliated to the Labour Party for nearly 100 years (under the name Poale Zion until 2004), claimed that they had been invited but to no avail .... after an hour of waiting one of the group tweeted: “To my great disappointment the Labour NEC Working Group on Antisemitism have been meeting for one hour now. We, @JewishLabour, have been waiting patiently for an hour. We will not be allowed in. They are discussing antisemitism without the only Jewish affiliate.”
You can't make this up. The Labour Party said it was a misunderstanding and that an invite had been sent to the Jewish Labour Movement separately for a meeting with new General Secretary Jennie Formby to discuss anti-Semitism in the party.
Even now, a year later the Labour Party under Corbyn is looking rotten to the core. Would Ed Milliband it's last Jewish leader, have been told it was all a misunderstanding as well?
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