Why Corbyn Was Suspended from the Labour Party: Report Exposes Antisemitism in Labour - TLDR News

On Thursday the Equality and Human Rights Commission published their enquiry into antisemitism in the labour party. In this video we discuss the report's findings and how they led to a dispute which ultimately resulted in former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, being suspended from the party.

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[nastropc]

Of all the former leaders to kick out for bringing shame upon the party and to show Labour had learned its lesson, I might have started with the one who waged an illegal war.

[baggaz]

TL;DR: A couple of corrections/clarifications needed. The mural, painted by Mear One, depicted several rich bankers: Rothschild, Warburg, Carnegie, Crowley, Morgan, Rockefeller. Of those, only TWO were Jewish (Rothschild and Warburg). By quoting Mear One, you seem to have been rather selective about what you chose to include, as the artist has also stated that it categorically wasn't about Jews owning all the wealth, it was about people with power, two of which happened to be Jewish. The "Illuminati eye" is the Eye of Providence. The same eye that is on American money. The artist is American. The only reason Corbyn backtracked and agreed upon second look that it was antisemitic is because people told him what to look for, but what they found was not necessarily the artist's intent.

As for the wreath-laying, he wasn't there to celebrate the lives of terrorists; he was 20 yards away from where that ceremony was taking place. He was laying a wreath at the graves of the innocent who died in the 1985 Israeli airstrike that the UN even condemned. They shared a graveyard. Nothing to do with the Olympian story from 1972. Context is important, even if you are TL;DR, you maybe need to read up on that one a bit more...

[calumwatt]

I am disappointed that there is no mention here of the credible allegation that Labour Party staff were deliberately ignoring that complaints inbox and that the majority (though to be fair, not all) of the "interferences" by Jeremy Corbyn's office were actually attempts to get them to deal with the problem.

There was even a motion at Party conference (I believe in 2017) to try and move along the case of one member who had been suspended "without charge" for two years! The local Party branch who submitted it were not even claiming he was innocent, they just wanted to case to be dealt with one way or the other so the guy could move on.

I'm not saying Corbyn is blameless, and that paragraph in his statement was pretty stupid and insensitive - but I wish the full story were actually being told here and in the media generally so it can be properly understood the by the public (something I thought TLDR is supposed to be about?)

I hope you cover this topic in greater detail when the outcome of his suspension is known.

[mushogi]

How is it you can repeat the slur about the wreath, he was actually laying a wreath to commemorate the deaths of civilians killed in an Israeli air raid, the terrorist are buried in a different part of the graveyard. A Tory MP was also present at the time and won substantial damages against a news paper.

[morethanwords]

This was a gift to Johnson and the Tories. Huge distraction from the government's failings regarding Covid, Brexit, and hungry kids.

[joemannish]

Isn’t it a bit funny that everyone has put pressure on the Labour Party over this - but where’s that same fire for the Islamaphobia and general racism within the Tories?

[dyrose]

To suspend someone without due process for political reasons breaks the law according to the report.
This is exactly what Starmer just did.

[laithmeanslion]

Sounds like he’s Pro Palestinian not antiSemitic

[theredtechnician]

In my view corbyn was a sacrificial lamb to wave take away the allegations and the mainstream establishments way of completely retaking the Labour party

[spacered]

Still not heard a single example of antisemitism

[samdoesvids]

Also important to note that Corbyn made a deal with Starmer to be reinstated with Corbyn releasing a clarifying statement and the whip being restored, Corbyn released the clarification but Starmer broke the deal. Now Corbyn is taking Starmer and the party to court.

(Also the Labour Party ethics committee unanimously decided to reinstate Corbyn's party membership, now it is only his parliamentary membership which is withdrawn)

[VorosMedve]

This was ill-thought out by both Starmer and Corbyn:
Corbyn’s comments were, possibly, preemptive of personal attacks (and who can blame him for that) but he could have waited and worded his statement differently (like he did in the Guardian interview, after being suspended).
However, it is a clusterfuck for Labour and Starmer: Labour still managed 10 million votes despite their Brexit position and Corbyn being relentlessly smeared by the MSM. Now, some of that support from progressives may leave with Corbyn. The vote swing required from Tory to Labour is massive and they’re going to need to do more than win back the red wall...if I was Lib Dem/Greens I’d be promoting similar policies to Labour’s last 2 manifestos.
Secondly, the action to suspend Corbyn without due diligence, perhaps coming directly from the leadership, was in violation of the EHRCs recommendations vis a vis transparency and political interference.
Finally, the suspension is what we’re talking about and not anti-semitism, maybe this was a tactic all along, but it does disenfranchise the Jewish people who DID experience racism and were let down by Labour.
Well done Keir, you really fucked that up.

[Qeztotz]

If Starmer wants a labour civil war, the same thing that caused them to lose in 2010, he's going the right way about it.

[pds]

He wasn't responsible to tackle anti Semitism in the party. There is a disciplinary procedure which is separate from the leadership and should not have the leadership involved. Which the report complains about because there where a few instances where the leaders office interfered. They didn't say Corbyn had interfered and the interference could have been Tom Watson trying to speed up the disciplinary proceedings. The Labour party was not found to be institutionally Anti Semitic but there was concern over the speed of which the Anti Corbyn head of the department was carrying out Anti Semitic investigations and noted that when he was replaced in 2018 the speed of Anti Semitic investigations increased. What got Corbyn suspended was saying that the public perception of Anti Semitism in the Labour party was exaggerated. Which is the truth.

[jacobedward]

Could you imagine the Tories being scrutizined this closely?

I think the difference is that labour supporters actually care...

Also, why don't they kick out these alleged anti-semitic MPs instead of Corbyn?

[nigelthomas]

Can’t wait to see the report on Tory party’s racism 🤔

[zoe_blackmore]

AGAIN > The temporary mural by the American artist Mear One (Kalen Ockerman) which was painted on a wall in Hanbury Street, London in mid September 2012 and which corbyn at the time viewed on his mobile phone only featured exaggerated characterizations of the following six figures depicted - Lord Rothschild, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Aleister Crowley, Andrew Carnegie and Paul Warburg - only two (Rothschild and Warburg) were of Jewish hertage. As soon as Corbyn found out of the potential antisemitic angle he declared "I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on, the contents of which are deeply disturbing and anti-Semitic."

[williamdavidthompson]

Note the issue of the Labour Leaks, which suggested that Labour Party Bureaucrats deliberately ignored anti-Semitism complaints in order to make Corbyn look bad. Scanning through the EHRC report, it says, "We have considered the leaked report and taken it into account where
appropriate. However, we have done so while bearing in mind that we have not
seen all of the evidence on which the conclusions in the leaked report were
based." Which is as much to say "We've taken it into account, but not really...".

[ForestFWhite]

Any action by a political party is political. Other details are incidental.

[peterlyk-jensen]

Im really curious to know what the examples of antisemitism that this row is all about are? You kind of forgot to mention any.