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Thursday 30 August 2018

Anti-Semitism row: Frank Field resigns Labour whip per BBC News (Part 2)

This BBC report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45359009 ends with these two risible sentences:

'Earlier this month, Mr Corbyn again apologised for hurt caused to Jewish people by anti-Semitism in his party and admitted Labour had been too slow in dealing with disciplinary cases.

Mr Corbyn also stressed that people who hold anti-Semitic views "have no place in the Labour Party" and said people who use "anti-Semitic poison" are not his supporters, nor do they speak for him or the party.'

Apart from laughing at the apology in the first of those two sentences, let's look at the second in more detail:

'Mr Corbyn also stressed that people who hold anti-Semitic views "have no place in the Labour Party" ...'

Apart from the Labour Party leader that is. He fails the IHRA examples on at least two counts. But don't expect the Labour Party supporting, and antisemitic by at least one of the IHRA examples, BBC to do anything other than faithfully report Jeremy Corbyn's platitudes. 

'Mr Corbyn... said people who use "anti-Semitic poison" are not his supporters, nor do they speak for him or the party.'

So is he saying that antisemites aren't his supporters or that none of his supporters are antisemitic? Or is it all just bollocks? Either way, the BBC won't challenge the 'Dear Leader'. 




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