Labour: still failing over anti-Semitism

“It absolutely breaks my heart to say, but I do not think the Labour Party is a safe space for Jewish people any more.” Thus spoke Izzy Lenga, a Labour member interviewed for last week’s Panorama documentary on anti-Semitism in the party, said The Observer. The programme found that as recently as this spring, Labour had a backlog of 1,000 complaints of anti-Semitism to deal with, and that so far it has expelled only 15 people as a result of such cases. It also included powerful testimony from Labour whistle-blowers about the way Jeremy Corbyn’s office had interfered with the handling of disciplinary cases by overruling the judgments of compliance officers. The Labour leadership’s response to the programme was all too typical, said Andrew Grice in The Independent. Rather than address…

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