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The voice of reason
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By his own people this time....
![]() The Labour leader is told he's an "anti-Semite" and "racist" by a Jewish MP amid a row over the party's anti-Semitism definition. ![]() ![]() Dame Margaret told Mr Corbyn he is an "anti-Semite and a racist", adding: "You have proved you don't want people like me in the party". The row flared after Labour's ruling body approved on Tuesday the adoption of a new code of conduct on anti-Semitism, despite calls for it to be toughened. Earlier this week, 68 of the UK's senior rabbis penned a joint letter in which they accused the Labour leadership of acting in "the most insulting and arrogant way" by rewriting an internationally-adopted definition of anti-Semitism. The group called on Labour to adopt the unamended International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, including all its examples, in their new code of conduct. Labour MPs and peers also overwhelmingly backed the demands for the party to change the way it defines anti-Semitism at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday. However, Labour's National Executive Committee upheld the adoption of the code of conduct on Tuesday. https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-co...clash-11440244 But, it omits four examples from the IHRA list: :: Accusing Jewish people of being more loyal to Israel than their home country; :: Claiming that Israel's existence as a state is a racist endeavour; :: Requiring higher standards of behaviour from Israel than other nations; :: Comparing contemporary Israeli policies to those of the Nazis. |
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