Labour Antisemitism, as Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn Announces ‘Disciplinary Action’ Against Prominent Jewish Critic

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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, facing backlash over years of antisemitism that has dinged his political colleagues, vowed to take “disciplinary action” against a key Jewish critic who called him out for being an antisemitic and racist.

So that’s how it goes in Corbyn’s world, yes? When antisemitism strikes, blame the Jews?

Jeremy Corbyn

Corbyn confirmed he was going to take action against Dame Margaret Hodge, a Jewish Labour member of parliament and a descendant of Holocaust survivors who has been confronting antisemitism for some time.

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As the antisemitism scandal that has engulfed Britain’s opposition Labour Party for the last three years reached a fever pitch on Thursday, party leader Jeremy Corbyn remained defiant, threatening disciplinary action against one of his Jewish critics after she called him an “antisemite and a racist.”

On Wednesday, a spokesman for Corbyn confirmed “action will be taken” against Dame Margaret Hodge – a Jewish Labour member of parliament and veteran party figure – as she confronted the Labour leader in the parliamentary chamber during a crunch vote on Brexit. Calling Corbyn an “antisemite and a racist” to his face, Hodge, who is the descendant of Holocaust survivors, added: “You have proved you don’t want people like me in the party.”

Corbyn’s spokesperson said that “under the terms of the Parliamentary Labour Party rules there has to be respect between colleagues.” Hodge’s behavior “was clearly unacceptable under Labour Party rules,” the spokesperson said.

Hodge has strongly denied the claim of anonymous Labour Party sources that she swore at the Labour leader. Making her case independently in a searing oped for The Guardian newspaper, she stressed that “complaints to the Labour party about antisemitism from party members have been dealt with in a desultory manner.”

“The powerful ‘Enough is enough’ demonstration organized by the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council in March has effectively been ignored,” Hodge wrote.

Asserting that Labour “chose to make the party a hostile environment for Jews … It chose to entrench antisemitism,” Hodge remarked that she “chose to confront Jeremy directly and personally to express my anger and outrage.”

“I stand by my action as well as my words,” the MP declared.

At the root of Corbyn’s latest conflict with the UK Jewish community is the definition of antisemitism drawn up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which has been adopted as a foundation for policy and practical action by numerous organizations globally and in Britain – including the UK and Scottish governments, the Welsh Assembly, the Crown Prosecution Service, the College of Policing, the National Union of Students and more than 120 local authorities. On Tuesday, Labour’s National Executive Committee rejected the definition, citing four theoretical examples in the text that deal with the overlap of anti-Zionism and antisemitism as the reason for its objection. The party instead adopted an alternative “code of conduct on antisemitism” that has been bitterly criticized by Jewish leaders and several senior Labour Party figures.

“In today’s Labour party, it is possible to argue that Israel is a Nazi-like state that should be wiped from the map, and that any Jews who say otherwise are probably paid by Israel to do so, and not be hauled up for antisemitism,” wrote Dave Rich – head of policy for the UK Jewish Community Security Trust (CST) – in a Guardian oped. “You may be told that your language is insensitive or impolite and asked to go on an education course, but your anti-racist reputation will remain intact.”

The controversy could yet split the Labour Party. On Thursday, the Jewish Chronicle newspaper in London published an editorial statement urging Jewish Labour MPs and their allies who are opposed to Corbyn to formally break with the party.

The paper argued that Dame Margaret Hodge’s public confrontation with Corbyn “has set in train events which cannot be predicted with certainty.”

“But already Jewish Labour MPs and their allies describe a ‘civil war’ with the Corbynites and say that they are at the ‘point of no return,’” the editorial stated. “They cannot back down…That surely means resigning the Labour whip and forming a new bloc of independent Labour MPs.”

On Thursday evening, around 700 British Jews gathered in central London’s Parliament Square for a fresh protest against Labour’s antisemitism.

A statement from the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which organized the rally, said that by “trying to redefine antisemitism his way, Jeremy Corbyn has left no doubt that he is the leader of an antisemitic institution, and he is perfectly happy with that.”

“The Labour Party should be abandoned by all decent people,” the statement continued.

Other political commentators have noted that Corbyn’s repeated clashes with British Jews could cost him support from the broader UK public, at a time when Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s government risks collapse over the Brexit negotiations with the EU.

Veteran pundit Polly Toynbee wrote in her column that Corbyn and Labour “mortally offending British Jews…risks being the hot story at Labour’s September conference, blanking out all that matters most from Brexit to benefits, housing to health.”

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

He is just part of the pro-jihadi scumbags including PM , T. May. She is jihadi tool of oppressing Brits AND most are too dumb to get it

And UN Supports Jihadi Invasion and Islamic Takeover of Non-Muslim Lands after rejecting Trump’s Nominee
https://tinyurl.com/yc88lljq

So why are we funding these scumbags ?

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Why indeed, the UN is a front for Terrorism, Globalism and Liberalism/Fascism/Islamism. Pack it up and ship the entire pile of excrement to Tehran.

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
5 years ago

AND WE THOUGHT WE HAD WIPED OUT THE NAZIS IN EUROPE. BUT ALAS I GUESS NOT . SILLY U.S.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

The far-left are the new authoritarian anti-Semites.

lostlegends
lostlegends
5 years ago

Jews in Labour Party? What did they expect? Harsh wake-up call. Some people are remarkably irrational.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  lostlegends

I am curious whether most European Jews today lean left or right. Most Jews in Israel are conservative.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

Jeremy Corbyn’s antisemitism is not an affliction merely affecting this Jew-hating scumbag. The British Government is also rife with antisemitism, many Labour MPs, and other closet-antisemites hold a revulsion for Jews and the State of Israel. There is a historical pathway of antisemitism within the framework of the previous governments and those of the social hierarchy.

Corbyn is not only a Jew-Hater, an anti-Semite; he is a loathsome and toxic man; a threat to all, excepting the Muslim communities and those of his Marxist bent. One wonders how Britain will survive while being led by the incompetent, pro-Islam, and despotic PM May. Corbyn is a Marxist; however, he also has a wanton leaning towards Nazism’s antisemitism. If May and Corbyn are the sole choices for leadership, Britain’s future is bleak.

The Muslim horde is laughing at the insane asylum, the entirety of Britain.

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

There has always been Anti-Semitism on Britain’s back-burner, sadly in both parties. However the Left world-wide has become more so in the past year than since WWII.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

You are right; the left has taken on the mantle and diktat of Fascism; their policies are less Liberal but to the extreme left. Yes, in both parties, May, however, does not strike me as a Conservative but by name. Her Party, the Tories, and Corbyn’s Labour Party have little to offer with these two as leaders. The world-wide political body is in want and need of leadership. Anti-Semitism is not solely a British dilemma, it is rife throughout the ‘alleged’ Western Democracies throughout its history. Corbyn and May, God help Great Britain that another Churchill or Thatcher will come out of hiding. You may or may not agree but we all hold hope for the UK.

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

I left Britain in 1969 and now the Democratic Party in America has become an extreme left socialist party of the Labour Party’s Anti-semitic ilk.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

Exactly, the Democrats are akin to the Labour Party in the UK. My wife left Britain in 1968, upon her return from visits she is devastated and depressed regarding Britain’s political insanity and its subjugation to Islam.

The Democrats are, as mentioned, the extreme left as is the Labour Party. The Tories, however, are far from being Conservative under PM May, the previous Conservative leaders John Major, David Cameron were not Thatcher but more Conservative than May. I may be wrong but it is as I see it. May scares the hell out of me; she is inept as she was as Home Secretary and is despotic. Then, there is the quintessential Marxist and Anti-Semite, Jeremy Corbyn who scares the hell out of more so than May, Perhaps when the layers are peeled away it will reveal they are one of the same.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

Jeremy Corbyn smokes donkey poles just like moHAMhead

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

What’s a donkey pole? Lol. Just kidding.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Sadly, anti-Semitism has been a very serious issue in the Labour Party for quite some time:
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/labour-s-festering-anti-semitism-problem-didn-t-start-with-corbyn-1.5980426

Buck
Buck
5 years ago

Long ago my min left England onthe mayflower . I feel sorry for the good people of Britian today and hope they can soon over throw the tyrants . And if they are able I hope they are smart enough to get them a 2nd amendment of there own . Down with tyrants and up with free men

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Why would anyone put this ass in? Obviously, he is not the only one that hates Jews. He must represent tens of thousands of them.

It maybe that even your Queen is Jewish. Strong evidence of this. And when the SHTF I’m quite sure they’ll go after her and her family.

Templar
Templar
5 years ago

Jeremy is just confirming that Sharia Law is the new way of life. Truth-speakers should all beware or end up in prison in the UK Caliphate.

Drifter12
Drifter12
5 years ago

The UK, conducting graveside services for its own culture…

Cassandra
Cassandra
5 years ago

If all Jews left the Liebour partei, (sic) there would just be the national socialist rump remaining.
I was wondering how long it would take but still not sure these people would leave: they’d lose power and they’ve spent years ignoring people to get up there…

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