No rule for them: #NeilCoyle avoids #antisemitism inquiry – because he’s #KeirStarmer’s crony?
Neil Coyle: why is Keir Starmer’s Labour bureaucracy protecting him from an anti-Semitism complaint? Isn’t the party supposed to be tough on Jew-haters nowadays?
Far-right Labour MP Neil Coyle is (apparently) not being investigated for anti-Semitism – despite complaints from prominent Jewish members of the community.
The complaint arises from a tweet Coyle posted about the main organisation of left-wing Jews in the party, Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL).
The Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP said JVL members were “outright Communists who have their own political party/ies they can ruin”.
Accusing Jews of Communism is a long-standing anti-Semitic trope, often paired with the phrase ‘Judaeo-Bolshevism’ or the far-right crypto-version ‘cultural Marxism’.
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC, Oxford Professor Avi Shlaim and solicitor Harold Immanuel – all Jews – wrote to Labour leader Keir Starmer.
Their complaint, sent in July last year, accused Coyle of ‘outrageous hate speech’ and said it was a clear breach of Labour rules against comments that ‘might reasonably be seen to demonstrate hostility or prejudice based on race, religion or belief’ meriting the ‘severest censure’: Expulsion from the Labour Party.
The only response was auto-acknowledgement and a promise that, if they were victims, investigators would maintain contact as the case progressed.
A request for an update in October was greeted merely with auto-acknowledgement.
Meanwhile Skwawkbox, reporting on the complaint, has demonstrated the apparent double-standard being operated by Labour:
Labour has or is conducting at least 46 investigations against left-wing Jews accused of antisemitism by the right for their defence of Palestinians and their comments on the conduct of Israel. It does not appear to be conducting even one against Neil Coyle – and according to the three complainants, Keir Starmer has completely ignored a request to do so, even though it came from one of the country’s leading lawyers whom he knows personally.
Labour’s activities against left-wing Jewish members are accelerating. While last year a JVL committee member was a staggering 224 times more likely to be targeted for investigation than a non-Jewish member, the latest data show that this has risen to almost 300 times.
This episode demonstrates that Starmer seems to share Boris Johnson’s apparent belief that rules for the general public (or, in this case, Labour Party members) don’t apply to him or his cronies.
It seems clear that he thinks it’s one rule for JVL members – and no rules at all for Neil Coyle.
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What is it – sheer incompetence or simply don’t care? An acknowledgement but three months later and, nothing? This involving complainants of the ilk of Bindman, Shlaim and Immanuel. What chance do ordinary rank and file members have. I saw the writing on the wall on the very day of Starmer’s election and eventually let my membership lapse on the day of the pay off to the so called ‘whistle blowers’, but never ever in my wildest imagination could I have dreamt of what would follow. The Labour Party is in my opinion, sadly finished in my lifetime, but I hope that something can rise from the ashes, something that will have to come from the grassroots and not these appalling lackeys to the status quo.
It is obvious, Starmer and his cronies are total scumbags. None of them are fit to sit in Parliament. Just look at their past record, and follow the money . They(and the tories) have heaped shame and disgrace on the mother of all parliaments. They must all be forced out of Parliament! Thanks to them, not only are the people of Britain suffering, we are also a laughing stock on the world stage. Almost all MPs no longer serve Britain and the people, they only serve themselves and their tax evading business cronies. It is time for a total clear out of Parliament!