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Glasgow University Media Group's March 2019 study 'Bad News For Labour' found Corbyn was right. At the time 0.1% of Labour members were under investigation for anti-Semitism. The public on average thought it was 34% due to volume & tone of media coverage https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786805720/bad-news-for-labour/
And the leader doesn't control disciplinary procedures in the Labour party. That's done by party officials like the General Secretary and bodies like the NEC and NCC....
Up until 20th March 2018 the General Secretary of the Labour party was the very New Labour Ian McNicol and the officials working under him mostly New Labour aligned and/or Jewish Labour Movement members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_McNicol
The Jewish Labour Movement's own website says its main objective is to "promote Labour or socialist Zionism". So like most of the organisations attacking Corbyn & claiming to be "the Jewish community" it's really only for pro-Israel Jews https://www.jewishlabour.uk/about
And up until the 2018 NEC elections Corbyn’s supporters had little representation on Labour’s ruling body – the National Executive Committee either.
There was a leaked internal Labour party report earlier this year which had whatsapp messages from McNicol & other party officials talking about how they hoped Labour would lose elections to get rid of Corbyn... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leak-report-corbyn-election-whatsapp-antisemitism-tories-yougov-poll-a9462456.html
how they'd go on whatsapp & pretend to work. The report also alleged they didn’t bother processing many of the anti-Semitism cases, as making no progress on them would help make Corbyn look bad, helping get New Labour back in control of the party
Yet this material in defence of Corbyn and the party, was blocked from being submitted to the EHRC by Keir Starmer when he became Labour leader. So the EHRC heard only allegations against Corbyn and his supporters from their political enemies. https://news.sky.com/story/labour-antisemitism-investigation-will-not-be-sent-to-equality-commission-11972071
So the EHRC report is like a verdict in a trial in which no case for the defence was ever heard. Yet Goodall's Newsnight piece mentions none of this, nor the Glasgow University study.
t just adds to the one sided and misleading reporting, and omission of key facts, which has given the public a hugely exaggerated impression of the scale of anti-Semitism in the Labour party under Corbyn, which was tiny, as under every other party leader....
and punished by suspension and requirement to undergo retraining by the (very pro-Israel) Jewish Labour Movement in the less severe cases, or expulsion or leaving the party knowing they'd be expelled otherwise, in cases of expressing hatred of Jewish people...
e.g former Labour councillor Damien Enticott left the party after being told he was suspended for investigation and processing of his case, after posting anti-Semitic hate speech online https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-45029812
And former Labour council candidate Nasreen Khan also left the party after being banned from being a candidate & told she was suspended for investigation, knowing she'd be expelled if she waited for her case to be heard https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-42009240
Among the 0.3% of Labour members accused of anti-Semitism, apart from those guilty and punished by the party under Corbyn by expulsion, or leaving knowing they'd be expelled otherwise, there were also people accused and punished who weren't anti-Semites at all....
Like Tony Greenstein, a Jewish anti-Zionist, expelled on the ridiculous grounds that he used the abbreviation "Zios" for Zionists online, and so did some far right anti-Semites https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/labour-expels-anti-zionist-activist-tony-greenstein-following-accusations-of-antisemitism-1.458908
I should add here that I don't agree with Greenstein that all Zionists are bad people. There are many decent Zionists who criticise wrong done by the Israeli govt & military & genuinely back a two state solution...
Just as there are many decent anti-Zionists who back a one state solution with equal citizenship for all Israelis and Palestinians in a single state covering what is now Israel and the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories.
And there are some hate filled anti-Semitic people among anti-Zionists too , but equally there are some hate filled extremists among Zionists who hate all Palestinians or all Arabs. There are good and bad Zionists, and good and bad anti-Zionists.
Hating all anti-Zionists and labelling them all anti-Semites is as unreasonable & crazy as hating all Zionists is. I disagree with Greenstein's hatred of all Zionists, but it doesn't make him an anti-Semite - he doesn't hate all Jews, nor any Jewish person for being Jewish
Goodall and Newsnight could have discussed the issues & events with everyone involved, researched the facts carefully, and presented the facts in a balanced way. Instead they went with the media pack and the narrative it had decided, and ignoring any fact that didn't fit
And so Goodall's piece for Newsnight shows nothing has changed since 2019. It, like most of the media, gives a massively exaggerated impression of the scale of anti-Semitism in the Labour party, and a distorted one of how Corbyn dealt with it
As well as missing out the fact that for much of Corbyn's leadership, the party officials dealing with disciplinary matters may well have been hostile to him and out to undermine him, including by sabotaging processing of cases - just as most of Newsnight's interviewees were
