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THREAD: Think I'm relatively unique on Labour twitter as a Jewish member who was active aged 14-16, but after being made to feel unwelcome hasn't been involved factionally or in YL since. So here's what I'd like to see:
1) A real reckoning with the pain and hurt caused. We want to feel heard, and we want candidates to show that they get it. Nandy did this really well for example - not hard, but vital.
2) A willingness to say sorry, acknowledge past mistakes, explain what was wrong with them and move forward. Nobody wants mass expulsions, we want a party free of antisemitism.
3) A willingness to call out antisemitism when it's factionally inconvenient - of friends, of allies, of mentors. That's how culture changes.
4) An engagement with *policy* but also with *culture*, and how to make spaces safe and welcoming, not just how to reform complaints procedures.
5) A positive engagement with Jews too! We're not just victims, and we want to share our culture, our heritage and our history with the Labour movement, as we have for the last 100 years here
6) A proper engagement with intersectionality generally, and how the party's failures on antisemitism are symptomatic of bigger problems in the party and on the left about liberation and minority voices
7) An engagement with and allyship towards Jews who differ from you politically, and a reckoning with their experiences. Crucially, this very much applies to both the left and the right of the Labour Party
