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Forde Report: Pressure on Keir Starmer mounts

Keir Starmer: why hasn’t he met Martin Forde KC? What Forde Report measures is Labour implementing, and how? And why is he being so tight-lipped about all this?

Labour leader Keir Starmer is facing more pressure to act on the recommendations of the Forde Report after its author, Martin Forde KC, revealed he had not been contacted since it was published in July last year.

People are drawing awkward conclusions, like this:

Labour seems to be saying that it is acting on the report. Here’s the vice-chair of the NEC equalities committee:

This is the same person’s response to calls for a meeting between Mr Forde and Labour:

It’s not a convincing response because the NEC’s decisions seem liable to be overruled by the party leader whenever he feels like it:

Of course the answer is that Mr Forde requested a meeting, in order to ensure that his recommendations were understood and any further action would be appropriate.

Compounding this, though, is the fact that Labour’s Forde working group asked to meet with him and were rebuffed:

Alongside this, there’s the fact that mainstream media journalists who practically camped on Jeremy Corbyn’s doorstep to ask him about anti-Semitism suddenly found that they didn’t have time to knock on Keir Starmer’s front door over this:

Then there’s the question of the BBC’s attempt to gag Mr Forde by demanding that he “amend” a critical section of his report:

And now other organisations are being brought into the debate, like the Muslim Council of Britain:

Who else will get involved?

Personally, This Writer would like to see representations from Black Lives Matter, if only to see what that group has to say about him describing that organisations as a “moment” and cynically taking the knee as a photo opportunity.


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Why is Keir Starmer ignoring racism and Islamophobia exposed by the Forde Report

Starmer takes the knee for Black Lives Matter: to him it meant nothing more than a photo opportunity. Black lives don’t matter to him – as we discovered when he attacked the organisation shortly after. Now we find he’s turning a blind eye to racism identified in the report by Martin Forde KC.

Anti-black racism and Islamophobia in the Labour Party, raised by Martin Forde KC in his report to that organisation last summer, has been ignored by party leaders including Keir Starmer.

Starmer has not contacted Forde since he published his report confirming that anti-Semitism and other racism had been a battleground between left- and right-wing factionalists within Labour. It seems this was not what the party leader wanted to hear.

Fortunately for him, very few mainstream media journalists had been interestest either:

Yes – odd, that. Mainstream hacks had been able to doorstep Jeremy Corbyn at the drop of a hat, but Starmer seems uncontactable.

Worse, Starmer seems to have ignored concerns raised by black and minority ethnic figures within his own Parliamentary party:

Here’s some evidence to back up the assertion:

Strange how anti-Semitism against pro-Israel Zionists can be such a vital issue for Starmer, but racism against non-Zionist left-wing Jews, black people and Muslims gets a free pass.


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Months after the Forde Report was published, Labour STILL hasn’t contacted its author about future steps

Keir Starmer: yet another own goal.

Martin Forde KC, the author of a major report on allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, has said there are serious issues of racism but, since it was published in July, nobody in the organisation has contacted him to discuss what should happen next.

Mr Forde told the Express

he has “anxiety” and “genuine underlying concerns” about “racial issues within the party”.

Referring to Sir Keir’s speech last month, in which the Labour leader said the party will “never again be brought to its knees by racism or bigotry”, Mr Forde said: “It is not a sufficient response to say ‘that was then this is now’.”

He added: “These are serious debates that need to be heard in a respectful context. And I just feel this there’s work to be done.”

His words come after he was interviewed by Middle Eastern broadcaster Al-Jazeera for an episode of its Labour Files documentary series, in which he claimed that the BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic had been “objectively entirely misleading”, and that he had been contacted by BBC representatives who wanted him to “amend” his comments on the show.

Here’s how the Al-Jazeera documentary describes what happened:

The documentary also suggests that Labour leader Keir Starmer has reneged on a promise to party members from ethnic minorities, that he would take the findings of the Forde Report seriously:

You can watch the whole documentary via the link below:

I think I would urge you to do so.

Margaret Hodge’s horror at Israel doesn’t ring true

Margaret Hodge: do you think she’s sincere?

Apparently a Jewish woman who helped drive many of her fellow Jews out of the Labour Party for anti-Israel sentiment hasn’t been to that country since 1994 and is shocked to discover the apartheid it operates against Palestinians.

Does that ring true to you?

Or is she just professing horror in order to validate her own behaviour over the last few years?

It’s a bit complicated but here’s the journalist Jonathan Cook to explain:

What do you think? Is it more deception?


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These newspapers are tying themselves in knots over Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn, writing about Jews including Roza Robota, Szmul Zygielbojm and Anne Frank, in the Holocaust Educational Trust’s book of remembrance.

What has been going on over at The Graun and Observer?

First Sonia Sodha wrote an almost fact-free article suggesting that Keir Starmer was right to say Jeremy Corbyn would not be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate in general elections again, as if Mr Corbyn was somehow responsible for the plethora of (mostly false) accusations of anti-Semitism against the party during his time as leader.

Then The Guardian ran an editorial that was pro-Corbyn.

And then the letters came in – from the usual suspects. The Graun ran a few of them on its letters page.

“It is simply neither sufficient or even accurate to say, as you do, that ‘Mr Corbyn has a formidable record fighting against racism and in speaking up for many persecuted peoples, but in this case he was too slow and too defensive. To show how much better he was than some of his critics allowed, he should have tried harder to engage with their criticisms,'” wrote crossbench Baroness and Rabbi Julia Neuberger.

“The truth is that he was not slow or defensive. He simply did not act. He failed to engage with those who pointed out how toxic the party had become for Jews. He consistently failed to accord antisemitism the status of racism – which it undoubtedly is. He has been selective in those causes he has taken up – and rising antisemitism, including within his own party, apparently was not worth worrying about. Meanwhile, due to his inaction and failure to understand, he made absolutely miserable the lives of several Jewish MPs in his own party. To name but a few, Louise Ellman, Luciana Berger, Margaret Hodge and Ruth Smeeth all had a terrible time and had to put up with the vilest of hate campaigns on social media. Some even left the party.”

None of the immediately preceding paragraph is true. Mr Corbyn did act. He launched a strategy to handle anti-Semitism in 2016 – but due to the reluctance of right-wingers in the party machine, had to wait until his choice of general secretary, Jennie Formby, was installed in 2018 before he could see it put fully into practice. He never denied anti-Semitism within the Labour Party – in fact he accorded it a great deal of importance. And if the named ladies suffered hate campaigns, how many of them were brought on because they had fabricated accusations of anti-Semitism? One example would be Luciana Berger’s claims against Liverpool Riverside CLP; she has yet to provide any evidence of anti-Semitism by any member of that organisation (to my knowledge).

Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote: “It is extraordinary that the Guardian should devote a formal editorial to defending Jeremy Corbyn only three years after his toxic crankery led to the unprecedented shame of an Equality and Human Rights Commission investigation into racism in the Labour party – and a Tory landslide.” His toxic crankery? The EHRC found that efforts to improve Labour’s response to anti-Semitism allegations had been hampered by right-wing factionalists (and did improve after Ms Formby because gensec)… and wasn’t that Tory landscape more to do with Labour’s policy on Brexit – that had been written by a rising shadow minister called Keir Starmer?

He continued: “To suggest his sole fault was that he was ‘too slow and too defensive’ would be laughable if it was not so deliberately dishonest.” I don’t know about deliberate dishonesty but it is mistaken. I’ve already mentioned the reason the Labour Party had been slow to take up Corbyn’s plan to better-handle accusations. As for defensiveness – unless I’m mistaken, several people directly accused Mr Corbyn of anti-Semitism. As he was and remains a lifelong campaigner against discrimination of any kind, it’s possible that he had a right to act defensively.

There was more of the same from Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust and Mike Katz of the Jewish Labour Movement (which you don’t have to be either Jewish or a member of Labour to join, unlike Jewish Voice for Labour which, we’re told, is occupied by the wrong kind of Jew – whatever that means).

Only Glyn Turton of Baildon, West Yorkshire – who is not, apparently, a peer or a member of a campaigning organisation – was shown standing up for the former Labour leader.

Even then, the support was lukewarm. “One can surely ask more of Labour than to use up so much political capital in defining itself in opposition to its own past,” he wrote. “There is a graver threat to the country than the political ghost of Corbyn. It is the party currently in office that has brought this nation to the brink of ruin.”

Fortunately for balance, a couple of days later, Jewish barrister Geoffrey Bindman KC, chair of the British Institute of Human Rights and former legal adviser to the Commission for Racial Equality, appeared in the Graun letters page with a more substantial defence:

Here’s a video clip of him saying much the same as he stated above; that from 220 complaints the EHRC could find only two cases of unlawful conduct by people labelled as Labour Party agents – both of whom are challenging the findings in the High Court, that the findings of interference by the party leadership have been questioned in the Forde report, and that the party’s inadequate training of its staff was not a failing of Mr Corbyn:

And then former Labour MP Chris Mullin stepped into the fray to point out that, under Labour rules, Mr Corbyn is fully entitled to put himself forward as a candidate to stand for Islington North Labour at the next election:

So: Keir Starmer was wrong. Mr Corbyn’s detractors were wrong. And it seems Mr Corbyn and his supporters are right. Again.

Source: Do not forget Jeremy Corbyn’s failure on antisemitism | Labour | The Guardian


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Why is Luciana Berger back in the Labour Party?

Berger: she and others claimed criticism by the Liverpool Wavertree CLP of her attempts to undermine Jeremy Corbyn were anti-Semitic abuse – but there is no apparent evidence of any anti-Semitism against her by any party member.

Remember Luciana Berger? The former Liverpool Wavertree MP whose opposition to Jeremy Corbyn caused such friction with her local party that she quit, claiming anti-Semitism? The one who went on to form the ill-fated Change UK to challenge Labour?

Now she’s back, after party leader Keir Starmer apologised for the way the party handled her claims of anti-Semitism. He said there had been a “litany of failures”.

Had there?

Well, no. But I’m happy to be corrected, if anybody can produce hard evidence refuting what follows…

Berger was parachuted into the Liverpool Wavertree Parliamentary seat in 2010, against the wishes of local people like actor Ricky Tomlinson and others, who publicly voiced their disquiet that the Labour leadership had chosen a member of the London elite instead of a person with local connections. At the time, the matter was framed purely as an issue of local democracy.

Then Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015 – and Berger joined an organised resignation of shadow front benchers in order to undermine the democratically-elected leader who was widely supported by members in her constituency.

The tension this created – along with concerns about a TV interview in which Berger repeatedly failed to say whether she would be leaving Labour to form a new, centrist party – led to Berger’s CLP inviting her to attend a meeting in 2018 when a motion would be discussed stating, “Instead of fighting for a Labour government, our MP is continually using the media to criticise the man we all want to be prime minister.”

The motion was attacked as an example of anti-Semitism by Labour right-wingers, but it clearly wasn’t. And when Berger quit Labour in February 2019, to join the centrist Change UK, the members of Wavertree CLP were proved to be right in their concern.

But they were attacked as anti-Semites nonetheless.

Berger was a victim of anti-Semitic abuse – but it came from outside the Labour Party; four neo-Nazis were jailed for crimes including anti-Semitic abuse and harassment, between 2014 and 2018.

And she has not – to my knowledge; how about yours? – produced a single scrap of evidence to show anti-Semitic abuse against her from within the Labour Party.

Here’s some background information:

Fake accusations against Momentum over Luciana Berger are undermining the fight against anti-Semitism (from July 2017).

Bullies in the Labour Party… are those who lied about Wavertree CLP’s ‘no confidence’ votes on Berger (from February 2019).

With such a poor history, Berger should never be allowed to become a Labour candidate again.

But you can bet that she will.


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This clip of a Jew in Keir Starmer’s constituency says everything about him and antisemitism

Keir Starmer: he may have opened the door for people who don’t like his persecution policies to leave, but some of them aren’t going. They want him to show the world how prejudiced he is by making him force them out.

“The door is open and you can leave,” said Keir Starmer about changes he has made to Labour Party procedures that make it easier for him to expel left-wing Jews.

It is an anti-Semitic policy because it attacks Jews more than non-Jews. It’s also anti-socialist, and therefore an attack on the Labour Party’s wider voter base. Starmer is relying on them voting for his party because he thinks they simply don’t have anywhere else to go.

And it has drawn the following response from a left-wing Jew who lives in his constituency, who has challenged Starmer, and who he has ignored.

Why has he ignored her? Would it put him in an awkward position?

Have a listen to her words and see what you think:

As @xpressanny tweeted: “Yet another Jewish lady being harassed and abused by Labour and Keir Starmer. This lady is IN Starmer’s constituency and he won’t even speak to her. What kind of leadership is this supposed to be? It’s an utter sham of a party. Tory in all but name.”

Meanwhile, it’s being reported that Starmer is saying the “vast majority” of Labour members back him, despite complaints that he has ditched all of the “10 pledges” he made to the party when he was pretending to be a socialist in order to be elected party leader.

I was one of those who commented on his betrayal of his leadership promises recently, and I can only agree with the following:

If there’s a majority, there must also be a minority. Presumably that consists of people like the lady in the video clip, hanging on to their party memberships as a challenge to Starmer to expel them.

What a ridiculous position for a party leader to create for himself. Starmer looks like a fool.


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Observer/Jeremy Corbyn/EHRC/antisemitism footnote: article author’s ill grace

Facepalm: And quit right -what will Jeremy Corbyn (and his supporters) have to put up with next?

The author of the Observer article I criticised so roundly earlier this week has commented after (apparently) a few corrections were made to the online version.

I can only agree with Aaron Bastani:

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

And I found plenty more errors. Are they going to stay uncorrected?


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Top barrister attacks media falsehoods about Jeremy Corbyn and the EHRC report

Laughter: I doubt this has been Jeremy Corbyn’s reaction to the latest vain attempts to destroy his reputation, but let’s hope he gets a warm feeling from the fact that the rest of us are laughing at his detractors.

This is what I get for missing Not the Andrew Marr Show.

On Sunday, it featured award-winning human rights lawyer and former legal advisor to the Race Relations Board, Geoffrey Bindman KC, who exposed the failures of both The Guardian and The Observer to report the facts of the EHRC investigation into whether there was “institutional antisemitism” in the Labour Party when Jeremy Corbyn was leader.

Here’s a video clip of him doing it:

So now there’s a highly-distinguished legal analysis opposing these journalists’ unevidenced opinions.

I hear the Guardian has run more anti-Corbyn drivel on its letters page. Where’s the factual accuracy? Or did that leave mainstream newspaper reporting around the same time I did?


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Rafael Behr and Jenny Chapman take a slapping over Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism claims

Jeremy Corbyn: the facts are on his side – along with some strong defenders.

After The Observer published an incendiary – and almost fact-free – propaganda piece supporting Keir Starmer’s undemocratic decision to deny voters in Islington North a chance to continue having Jeremy Corbyn as their Labour MP, journalist Rafael Behr of that paper’s stablemate The Guardian appeared on the BBC’s Politics Live and tried to justify it.

He was joined by Labour’s Jenny Chapman, who also pushed the Labour leadership’s claims.

But they were opposed by Jess Barnard, who many may remember as the firebrand leader of Young Labour. She’s now a member of the party’s ruling National Executive Committee and of Corbyn-supporting group Momentum – and she wasn’t taking any prisoners.

I was live-tweeting at the time, and I have taken the liberty of superimposing my own comments at the appropriate moments in the discussion, so you can tell exactly what I was thinking as the debate was taking place.

For an in-depth analysis of everything that was wrong with the Observer article and the position taken by Behr and Chapman see this Vox Political article.

Sadly, considering the atmosphere in the Labour Party at the moment, This Writer fears for Ms Barnard’s future within it, having made such a clear stand against her autocratic party leader.


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