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Meanwhile, disciplinary cases relating to antisemitism among Labour members since September 2015 relate to 0.06% of party’s 540,000-strong membership. The Labour right and corporate media have also accused Corbyn of antisemitism for meeting up with Jewish people, such as hosting Jewish Holocaust survivors in parliament and attending a Jewish Sedar (Passover feast). We are denounced as the wrong kind of Jews, not actually members of the Jewish Community… ‘antisemitism enablers’ and other insulting terms. Because the subject of the antisemitism complaint in question was a “Jewish activist” and “the son of Holocaust survivor”.Ĭorbyn’s political opponents routinely attack Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) – an organisation of Jewish Labour members – along similar lines: The quote Panorama used omitted that.Įffectively, Milne warned against Labour participating in the ‘wrong sort of Jew’ antisemitic trope in the email. “Wrong kind of Jews”īut in response to a request, Milne was specifically talking about Jewish people being accused of antisemitism. The impact of this email on those dealing with the complaints process was made clear in the eyewitness testimony shown in the programme. This goes contrary to the Labour Party’s claims that this process was independent of the Leader’s Office. The significance of the email from Seumas Milne is that it showed one of the most powerful figures in the Labour Party expressing concern about the handling of anti-semitism complaints and suggesting the wider process should be reviewed. We reject any claims Panorama took any of the evidence out of context.

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The BBC stands by its journalism and we completely reject any accusations of bias or dishonesty… The programme adhered to the BBC’s editorial guidelines, including a full right of reply for the Labour Party.

In response, a BBC spokesperson told The Canary: Having identified the subject of the complaint as a “Jewish activist, the son of Holocaust survivor”… if we’re more than very occasionally using disciplinary action against Jewish members for anti-Semitism, something’s going wrong and we’re muddling up political disputes with racism. Something’s going wrong, and we’re muddling up political disputes with racism… I think going forward we need to review where and how we’re drawing the line.īut Labour released the full email, which shows that Milne was responding to a request from a former Labour staff member for a view on a complaint. The publicly-funded broadcaster’s version of Milne’s email read:

The edited email presented Labour’s director of communications Seumas Milne as interfering in the party’s disciplinary process, which is supposed to be independent.

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