Starmer has now rejected FOUR aspects of the EHRC report. Since he and others say that’s ‘part of the problem’ of antisemitism, he should now be suspended himself
Keir Starmer’s decision to withdraw (not ‘not restore’) the whip from Jeremy Corbyn this morning, after it was automatically restored by the lifting of Corbyn’s supension by the unanimous decision of a (right-dominated) National Executive Committee panel last night, is a clear breach of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report’s ban on any ‘political interference’ in disciplinary outcomes.
Starmer didn’t dare say he’d withdrawn the whip, even though the party’s rules mean that’s what he’s done, but caving to political pressure from petulant right-wingers is still political interference in a process that reached a conclusion the petulant didn’t like.
But that’s not the only EHRC stricture Starmer has broken, despite committing himself and the party to implement the EHRC report in full. The report also explicitly said – almost entirely unreported by the so-called ‘mainstream’ media, of course – that Corbyn has a legally-protected right to say what he said.
Not only that, but as an MP, his right to say so is ‘enhanced‘ under human rights laws:
There was nothing offensive in Corbyn’s observation that the media have massively exaggerated the extent of antisemitism in the Labour Party. It’s simply a fact. But even if it was offensive, his right to say it has ‘enhanced protection’.
The EHRC report on antisemitism says so in absolutely clear terms.
Starmer has ignored the EHRC in at least five ways, by his own measure:
• agreed with Corbyn’s view of the scale of antisemitism on a 2019 Marr programme
• breached the EHRC’s statement on the right to free speech
• politically interfered in a disciplinary process
•breached the EHRC ruling that disciplinary processes must not be opaque or arbitrary
So that’s at least four aspects of the report Starmer has rejected. Since he and other Corbyn-haters say rejecting the report is antisemitic, Starmer himself should now be suspended – and on far sounder grounds that Corbyn was.
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I thought stammer was supposed to be some sort of legal ‘expert’?
The only thing dummkopf-schmitt EVER got (half**)right was calling stammer a ‘second rate lawyer’
**He’s not event tenth rate, the clown.
He’s got foggy forensics this time. I would guess that Schtarmer is now being advised to stop digging & jump out the hole quickly.
As a Jew myself, I’m struggling to reconcile the old antisemitic “Jews pulling the strings” trope with Starmer’s willingness to permit JVL and the BoD to oversee Labour’s antisemitism measures and disciplinary processes; can anyone enlighten me as to why Starmer has taken this decision? I should also point out that JVL and BoD do not speak for anywhere even close to the entirety of the Jewish community, so why is Starmer allowing them to?
I wonder what Victoria Starmer is saying?
Surely you not mean JLM (Jewish Labour Movement) rather than JVL (Jewish Voice for Labour)?
Yes, I do! My bad!
What if the BoD & JLM really are ‘pulling the strings? What if Sir Keir Starmer really was accepting large donations from an Israeli business man & what if all three Leadership Candidates accepted instruction from BoD. What if Margaret Hodge really is Leader of the Labour Party?
It would appear that her plan really is working. Her poodle does what he’s told & she has delivered the Labour Party into the hands of Zion. End of Jeremy; end of Socialism. Job done!
Thank you Dan, you speak for me.
Dan
I think you mean JLM
JVL are on our side, they saved my sanity and now I’m an honorary ‘Bad Jew’
The BoD seems not to have noticed the incongruity of a Jewish organisation enabling the rise of the populist, hate-mongering far right by attacking the left.
They must really, really want those poor Palestinian subsistence farmers’ lands – or have really, really, really selective memory loss – or both.
Is there an English word for ‘lebensraum’ I could use that wouldn’t offend?
Because I wouldn’t wish to offend the BoD by harking back to Nazism.
That’s their job.
Their ersatz claims of anti semitism are hate crimes and should be prosecuted
Dan I think its a lack of backbone from the political class.The BoD frown and the party heirarchy scurry to placate them
JLM, not JVL! My mistake!
And I thought we had just started the pantomime season?
Corbyn should know by now, that appeasement does not work.
Corbyn bent over, and Starmer obliged.
I thought it was JLM, the Jewish Voice for Labour were not actively invited to participate and side-lined. I stand to be corrected if wrong.
This festering sore is not going to go away until the facts come out in a court case. Until then the right wingers in the PLP, the MSM and “The Jewish Community” are going to get away with their BS.
If it wasn’t blindingly obvious before, it certainly is now: Starmer has no interest in unity with the left.
Shame we were not allowed to deselect these fuckers years ago.
Could CLPs recommend Labour affiliates with JVL rather than JLM?
Starmer should be expelled along with all the other Zionists simply because they are racists.
Unbelievably, Zionist Akehurst is advocating that the LP adopts apartheid as its official position.
Don’t say you weren’t warned what would happen if Zionists in the Labour Party were not dealt with.
Skwawky
And why not
‘Starmer should be suspended’
If Starmer really did say “part of the problem” [of antisemitism] he needs to choose his words more carefully to avoid putting them in the mouths of the far right.
“The Jewish Problem” was debated to death in Europe in the 20th century – let’s not have that discussion again.