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The suspension of @jeremycorbyn from the Labour party is one of the most outrageous acts of anti-left repression to occur in a democratic country in living memory. @Keir_Starmer should be ousted from the leadership over it. It is groundless & indefensible. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/11/what-has-been-done-to-jeremy-corbyn/
Here is what happened: Jeremy Corbyn disputed conclusions of a report that accused the party under his leadership of engaging in antisemitic harassment. Any sensible person would dispute those conclusions, because the report is a farce and a fraud. Read it yourself and see.
As you can see, Corbyn's critics say that disputing the conclusion that he tolerated antisemitic harassment IS ITSELF PROOF that he doesn't take antisemitism seriously. This is Orwellian: if you dispute the charges against you, it shows they're true. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/01/mr-corbyns-self-pity-betrays-the-victims-of-antisemitism-scandal
Notice how much of the discussion of the "antisemitism scandal" drifts away from the actual antisemitism that is supposedly the whole cause of that scandal. They say there's a "damning report" filled with "evidence" but WHAT IS THAT EVIDENCE?
There is none. If you look at the report, they find two instances of "discrimination and harassment" by Labour officials. One is "use of antisemitic tropes," because an obscure local counselor used the phrase "Fifth Column," which the report asserts referred to Jewish people.
The other is "suggesting that complaints of antisemitism are fake or smears." Once again, Orwell: if you suggest that the antisemitism charge against you is a smear, it's proof you're denying the seriousness of antisemitism, and thus are engaging in "harassment."
I would very much encourage anyone seeking to understand what happened to READ the report that Jeremy Corbyn was punished for denying the conclusions of: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf Scrutinize it carefully and look for the actual antisemitic harassment and discrimination it documents
Look past all the stuff about how they didn't train people well enough or violated some bureaucratic rule or whatever. We want the SUBSTANCE: what is the antisemitism at the root of the "antisemitism scandal"? Evaluate whether Corbyn is RIGHT that the conclusions are overstated.
