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Saturday, 20 October 2018

Man who dismissed antisemitism set for top Labour role in dealing with it

For some time I have been calling Jeremy Corbyn antisemitic. Is the Labour Party itself also? 

'A hard-left member of the Jewish Voice For Labour group is heading for a position on the Labour Party's top disciplinary body after pro-Jeremy Corbyn activists buried internal factional divisions and united to back him.

Stephen Marks — who once accused the Board of Deputies of being behind "imagined" claims of antisemitism in Labour — was placed on the left-wing "slate" of six suggested candidates for election onto the party's National Constitutional Committee (NCC).

On Wednesday, Momentum confirmed they would support Mr Marks, amongst the candidate list – despite earlier claims that founder Jon Lansman would block the endorsement of the JVL activist, which had been made by the far-left Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD) led by Pete Willsman, who was exposed by the JC over his Jewish "Trump fanatics" comments earlier this year.

Labour's increasingly left-wing membership will now almost certainly vote for the six names on the left-wing NCC slate, meaning Mr Marks could soon be ruling on controversial antisemitism allegations initially carried out by the party's National Executive Committee.'

More at the JC https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/man-who-dismissed-antisemitism-set-for-top-labour-role-in-dealing-with-it but obviously not on the antisemitic, by at least two of the IHRA examples, BBC. 

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