This BBC report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45415967 includes this about what Jeremy Corbyn's "concerns" with the full IHRA definitions:
'The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said she understood the Labour leader suggested a more extensive accompanying statement stating that "it should not be considered anti-Semitic to describe Israel, its policies or the circumstances around its foundation as racist because of their discriminatory impact, or to support another settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict".'
So Jeremy Corbyn openly said that "it should not be considered anti-Semitic to describe Israel, its policies or the circumstances around its foundation as racist"
Here's example 7 of the IHRA definitions:
'Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.'
Who's going to report Jeremy Corbyn for breaking the fully adopted IHRA definition, including the examples?
Meanwhile the BBC can't seem to see the disparity between the Labour Party adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitisn, in full, and the immediately preceding comments by Jeremy Corbyn. I suppose that's no more than one should expect from a news organisation guilty of breaking at least one of the IHRA examples, here's number 8:
'Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.'
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