'Rayner, who also serves as shadow education secretary, warned during her address that "people think antisemitism has gone away but the reality is it's absolutely there in every single community, in our campuses and our schools and across our society."
She also called on Labour to confront antisemitism in its ranks, saying, "we need to prove we are not antisemitic as a party."
"I have confidence we are going in the right direction but are we where we need to be? I don't think we're there yet," Rayner added.
"We still have people in our party that are antisemitic. It's not just what we say, it's what we do — and I say that to everyone including my leader."
She pointed to UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's appearance at a December event organized by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) with Hatem Bazian, a leading proponent of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
IHRC hosts annual Al-Quds Day rallies against Israel, which often feature flags of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, and has claimed that "the British people do not have a say in what the major political parties stand for," as the "parties and their spokespeople are indebted to Jewish financiers with Zionist leanings."
"I will speak to Jeremy about that meeting in December," Rayner said, "and say that it has created upset, and ask him what is he going to do about it personally."'
More here https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/11/17/uk-labour-education-chief-antisemitism-still-a-problem-in-our-campuses-and-our-schools/ but obviously not on the institutionally pro Labour Party and anti Israel BBC.
As for Jeremy Corbyn, I don't know if he's an anti semite but he happily appears with, lunches with and calls 'friends' some truly nasty anti semitic people.
No comments:
Post a Comment