Leaked labour
party
anti-semitism reportBy Craig Murray
April 22, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
I have now
read my way through all 851 pages of the suppressed and
leaked
Labour Party report on
its handling of anti-semitism complaints. It is an
important document, that is fundamental to understanding
a major turning point in UK history, where Northern
European social democracy failed to re-establish itself
in the UK.
If whoever leaked the document still has access to
the vast amount of original source material on which it
is based, this is documentation of immense historical
value. I would strongly urge them to send the original
thousands of emails, texts and messages to Wikileaks to
ensure that this is preserved for the public record.
More mundanely, the report is of obvious value as
evidence to the Equality and Human Rights Commission as
part of its investigation into anti-semitism in the
Labour Party. The fact that it has not been officially
adopted by the Labour Party does not make any difference
to its value as evidence; nor does its status as regards
copyright or data protection law.
If, for example, I were to discover evidence of
blatant racism, and send that to the EHRC, the EHRC
would not refuse to look at that evidence on the grounds
it breached the racists’ copyright or rights under the
Data Protection Act. These excuses for suppression of
the report are just that. I am accordingly myself
sending a copy on to the EHRC making just that point. I
find it rather troubling that Keir Starmer seems more
interested in suppressing this report than acting on its
alarming findings – and I say that as someone who is not
initially hostile to Starmer.
What are the key points we learn from the report?
Well, firstly that there did exist among Labour Party
members examples of genuinely shocking and indisputable
anti-semitism. It is also true that in many cases the
processes of dealing with these individuals did drag on
for months or even years. Much of the report is
concerned with precisely whose fault that was within the
Labour Party.
The report does conclusively refute the accusation
that delays were occasioned by Jeremy Corbyn or his
office, or that his office displayed any sympathy for
anti-semitism. In fact, the opposite is the case.
Corbyn’s office showed a proper hatred of anti-semitism,
but also an alarming willingness to throw good people
under the bus on very flimsy allegations of anti-semitism.
pp306-7 The report shows a serious inability to
distinguish between real, nasty anti-semitism and
opposition to the policies of Israel.