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Wrote something personal about the best mum ever.
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The
#wearecorbyn
hashtag is literally one of the most insensitive things considering the the last 48hours. If you wanted to tell a minority community you couldn’t give a rats arse about them at a time of deep distress and fear then you’ve done that. Idiots. Don’t chat to me.
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Heartbreaking notes shared with me that a 13 year old Jewish student in the UK wrote down about things that have been said to her at her non jewish school. Her relatives in Israel are missing and are thought to be among the hostages.
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New: It is understood that Asa Winstanley is suspended from Labour Party pending investigation.
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Yesterday i contacted someone i had respected for their anti-racism and explained how something they had said was antisemitic. Sadly this is what happened. 2017.
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Got to take this bundle of pure joy home yesterday after a marathon four days! Felt like I met every member of
@WhitHealth
maternity staff! Could not have asked for kinder, more supportive people to help bring him safely into the world. 💛🌈
#ThankYouNHS
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When is this going to stop? Imagine the outrage if this....eugh never mind. Literally give up. Devastating for the Jewish members of the Hackney North & Stoke Newington Labour Party. Shame on every person that voted for this. Hollow people with not one iota of self awareness.
Jewish Labour members 'in tears' as Diane Abbott's local party passes motion questioning 'institutional antisemitism'
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Part of me can’t get my head around a chart topping musician going on several public & overtly racist ranting sprees with relatively minimal comment from fans/industry type people.
New video of rapper Wiley has emerged, seemingly referring to Jews, where he says “why did Hitler hate you? For nothing?”
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Also can we stop with this One Direction hero worshiping bullshit. It is creepy. You're not a 12 year-old fanatic. This is not the top 40. Be your god damn self. Use your brain, please god it is in there, and arrive at your own thoughts based on more than one world view.
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That video. I can’t with the emotions running high tweets. ‘High emotions’ do not lead you to drive in convoy through London calling for the rape of Jewish women. Get tf out of here.
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Its all good and well for Labour MPs to be texting journalists left right and center slagging off their leader & saying how terrified they are - You were elected to speak out. Start doing it.
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This really was an extraordinary moment. Was he briefed to say that or did he come up with it in the moment? Quite something to be able to say it with not one iota of shame.
This is the man who wants to be PM of our country blatantly lying to us, to you, to everyone. Every word of his statement here is demonstrably untrue. Not fit for office
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I’m looking for more than a 48hour solidarity tweet or Instagram post. No more polite silence after this. Speak up for us at a dinner table when another guest causally talks about “Jews controlling everything” and we’re so humiliated we don’t scared of making a scene.
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But if there is one thing it solidifies is this brand of the left/anti racists movement could not give a flying fuck about how Jews feel. Especially Jews with different political views to them. Well let me tell you that’s not how solidarity works you chiefs!
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They don’t have to share your views to have your support when they are terrified by racism or discrimination. It shouldn’t matter who they vote for or what newspaper they read. For people obsessed about anti racist you’re pretty damn shit at it. IMO.
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She has gone into her school after a horrific event that directly impacts her loved ones and is facing this from her peers. Just vile and utterly devastating.
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No 👏🏻responsible 👏🏻broadcaster 👏🏻should 👏🏻have 👏🏻 JVL 👏🏻 on 👏🏻their 👏🏻platform 👏🏻unchallenged.
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@OwenJones84
@AnshelPfeffer
@ermmto
My god. Because it is not everyday you need to jump into our intra community beef. You do this after years of making things worse and not helping. We are all tired of it. Sometimes just sometimes the right thing to do is sit this one out. It’s quite a normal thing to do.
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Maybe
@DerbyChrisW
will sign it himself by accident!
We call upon the Labour party to remove the whip from Chris Williamson MP Derby North.
Sign the petition.
#LabourAntisemitism
#ChrisWilliamson
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My husband (who is not Jewish) to me tonight over dinner... “I really can’t believe how many people think antisemitism in Labour is a smear & you’re all in the pay of Israel.....I wish you were in the pay of Israel,” he says having ordered us yet another takeaway.
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Omg yes London 💕 standing at a crossing and a car drives past slowly and guy shouts out the window ‘hey beautiful’ *rolls eyes* until the little old man next to me shouts back at him ‘thanks very much’ 😂
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I mean seriously god actually help all the people that see this and go "meh what is so wrong with that.' LOOK AT IT!
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Non Jewish fiancé to me this evening: “Is Owen Jones Jewish?” Me: “lol no, why?” Him: “Every time I look on Twitter it is all he is talking about.”
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Very unfortunate seeing as
@JesseLingard
took part in a video marking Holocaust Memorial Day the same year Wiley went on his antisemitism rant.
Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford with rapper Wiley in Dubai 📸
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This made me lol today the struggle is real for whoever is in charge of social media 👶🏻
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When someone says they have ‘done the reading’ and not a antisemite anymore and goes on to describe the Jewish person who pointed out their racism as ‘malevolent’ with ‘underhanded motivations’ it is safe to say they perhaps picked up the wrong book. 🙈
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Can all the women in parliament who have been called a
#stupidwoman
by a male colleague raise their hand. Can all the men say sorry. Glad that is over with. Back to the imploding country please thank you!
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Baffles me that someone who presumably considers themselves decent with a platform nearly five times the size of the British Jewish community, time and time again shows zero awareness about how what they say about us directly impacts us in our actual lives everyday.
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Imagine when this is the only Jewish person you can get to have a nice cup of tea with you. This meeting genuinely makes no sense on every level it is a big fat fail so you can only assume that people involved in making it happen are mind blowingly stupid.
NEW: Jeremy Corbyn, his wife Laura Alvarez and the shadow international development secretary Dan Carden had lunch in parliament today with Shraga Stern - a hardcore anti-LGBT activist.
Labour source says it was a lunch with guests, not a formal meeting
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Marcus Rashford has responded to the picture explaining how he can "understand now, given context" it "could easily be misconstrued. I would like to reinforce that I do not and will not condone discriminative language or behaviour of any kind aimed at the Jewish community"
England footballers pictured partying with disgraced rapper Wiley
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I wrote this - here are as many bins as twitter will allow for the people it applies to. You are most welcome. 🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️
If you're referencing 'The Lobby' to defend Labour, you're another conspiracy theorist
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These retired teachers/public servants really need a bloody hobby that isn't standing outside the Labour Party shouting 'oh Jeremy Corbyn.' Surely they have allotments to attend to, kids to drive to university, grandchildren to babysit, a matinee at the National Theatre to go to?
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Chapter 2, Clause 1.8 of the rule book says no member shall demonstrate hostility or prejudice based on “religion or belief”. Given Lisa Forbes’ endorsing of antisemitic statements i have asked the Labour Party this morning if she will be investigated according to the rules.
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This piece by
@charlotte2153
, who was at the Jewdas Seder is a very important insight into how alienated some young Jews on the left feel & why
@jeremycorbyn
connects to them. Would be wise for communal orgs to not ignore this.
Opinion: 'Why Jeremy Corbyn should be applauded for going to the Jewdas Seder’
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This entirely unserious person was asked privately to delete this defamatory tweet hours ago. It is still very much there and is now resulting in me being compared to the KKK! This same person expects others to indulge them with adult conversation. Beyond.
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There is mad amounts of misogyny behind the eye rolls of old men who don’t like being questioned by young women. It’s not new a thing, we know it, and we see it all the time.
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Am told it took Haringey
@metpoliceuk
40 mins to respond to this violent attack. Shocking.
#HateCrime
#Antisemitism
#Horrific
| 2 Jewish men
#Attacked
Cadoxton Avenue
#N15
The brutal, unprovoked attack saw the victims knocked to the floor by vicious punches to the head
@Shomrim
located the suspect through
#CCTV
enquiries
#Arrested
by
@MPSHaringey
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There has truly never been so much joy and celebration in my mentions. Shabbat shalom kids!
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Survived a train journey with my toddler. He cried more on than off for two hours, no nap, refused to sit down & when I thought another dirty look from passengers might kill me a granny opposite leaned over and said ‘what a lovely mummy you’ve got. You’re doing really well.’
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People, who have willy nilly for weeks supported marches where people have been screaming death to jews without asking organisers to clarify they don't agree with that, are REALLY showing themselves when they assert conditions on the antisemitism rally/organisers.
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Appreciate it might not the priority.... but can we have some JEWISH and while we're at it WOMEN asked by our media to discuss antisemitism... there are plenty of them qualified to do so..... instead of non Jewish blokes called Owen, John, Jim or whatever?
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When your bestie is
@MariahCarey
and you call her up for a chit chat on your brand new show...you know....as you do? Don’t miss
@jasminedotiwala
talking to the superstar tonight on
@BBCRadioLondon
8-10pm
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In new levels of madness Labour Left Voice have blocked.......wait for it.........my husband. I’m assuming they are not Andy Murray fans because that is all he ever tweets about. They really need to get in the bin.
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I would really like to know what support is being offered to Miriam
@UKLabour
do you see this?? She is knocking on doors for you. Her spare time goes to you & look at the abuse she gets from your so called supporters. What are you doing for her? Anything?
It doesn’t matter what your actual views are. It doesn’t matter that you stand up for the rights of Palestinians.
This is the inevitable reaction when you call out antisemitism in politics as a Jewish activist. And so many comrades receive far, far worse.
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This morning
@HackneyAbbott
was challenged on antisemitism on
@BBCr4today
and argued that Jews in her constituency don't feel the same as Jewish orgs like the
@BoardofDeputies
and
@JLC_uk
when they say Labour has not done enough to fight Jew hate......which is not true.
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#YellowCandle
lit In memory of Kaiti Mioni of Arta who perished at Birkenau in 1944, age 5. May her memory be a blessing.
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Millennials are proud of being “woke” – so why don’t they call out anti-Semitism? My piece for the
@NewStatesman
The distinct millennial silence on anti-Semitism is all the more apparent when it comes to pop culture, says
@Rosa_Doherty
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Things to do in 2020 1) Have baby in May ... 2) Get my mum to take up my trousers....
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The stuff
@lucianaberger
has to endure just trying to do her job is disgusting. Imagine experiencing what she has in the work place and having a boss who has done nothing to publicly support you or challenge the culture that is contributing to your living nightmare.
Thread>>
I missed
#bbcqt
last night but for the hundreds of people tweeting/RTing - including from 1 MP - messages denying I had police with me at party conference/saying it’s a smear this is what the police said.
Read it closely.
The clue is in the word “armed”.
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Working for the
@JewishChron
is going to a wedding where the granny and grandpas spend the evening telling you you’re much prettier than your by line photo and I have to tell you I am here for every second of it!
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How do you defend this? As in seriously. This is how we are where we are and people will still defend this. It is not ok. The damage done by not owning your shit.....really.
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Thanks to Ben for shining a light on this dusty bunch of bigoted losers. A gobby fringe of cretins who deserve all the shame heaped on them. They are as representative of the Jewish community as a bacon sandwich.
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I was a journalist on a trip which saw the Chief Rabbi carry out a secret visit to a refugee camp on the Macedonian border a few years ago. To say the local security there were worried about his presence in the camp would have been a understatement.
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He simply covered his Kippah (their advice) & asked them not to follow. If there was one thing I noticed about him during those few days was his extremely calm & incredibly measured nature. That kind of person doesn’t make the intervention he just has without real reason.
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Spent my adult life telling myself I have to change GP due to dismissive & shite care. Last straw today having taken baby who is miserable morning noon & night with horrible painful sounding cough. “How do you know he is in pain did he tell you?” Just EUGH to this type of doctor.
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The JC understands that Rachael Swindon/Cousins is not a member of the Labour Party.
Cousins, who has 76,300 Twitter followers, was reportedly given a tour of Parliament last year by shadow chancellor John McDonnell
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I......the kid who grew up in homes with both the Socialist Worker, & the Jewish Chronicle, going to Marxism & my grandparents in HGS etc etc - work for ‘a far right paper.....’ I mean if true go me for nailing the hell out of irony. These people, honestly, stop being so basic!
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Female family member threatened in the street tonight by a man with a screwdriver. Police were called. It is now hours later and they’ve not even been to take a statement. Useless.
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@SturdyWendy
Her family say they are happy with how the school are dealing with it at the moment. But i will keep in touch with them.
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Who would you rather kiss?
A Labour antisemite
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Is it possible to be this thick? Apparently yes.
Anger as Labour conference set to debate changes to antisemitism complaints process - on Shabbat
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I wish the silent left wing so called anti racists commentators told the truth. ‘Yeah what he said was racist we just don’t care enough to say so and won’t because it makes him look bad.’ Your silence is cowardly & you are complicit.
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Ah I see everyone’s favourite ‘good Jews’ the Neturei Karta are all over social media accounts of good people of Instagram who are ‘doing the work.’ The internet is a curse.
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The desperate attacks on
@RachelRileyRR
from cranky men for talking about her experiences shouldn't surprise me but somehow even when you totally expect it they still manage it. They are trying to silence you don't you let them ever!
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Good news the exhibition that was cancelled is to be hosted by a new mosque!
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Suprise suprise the man who was desperate to shake Corbyn’s hand as he left the stage uses his question to attack
@joswinson
for ‘using’ antisemitism. Don’t these jokers ever have a night off. 😴
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This piece by Richard Horton appears to be really hitting home - anecdotally I've had several messages from people of his generation or older - who until now have been die hard defenders of the leadership finally saying 'oh we really have a problem'
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I wrote in 2018 about this exact blind spot people like Lily Allen have when it comes to showing concern about racism against Jews. It continues. Nice attitude to have i guess when you don't experience what Jews do.
Personally, I feel that fear is a tool, used effectively and favoured by right. I am a hopeful person, which is why I lean left.
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Left London in the back of this at 5:45am on the way to Wales with a team of
@UnitedSynagogue
volunteers for
@AmbulanceWishUK
The mission? They’re going to take a terminally ill man to see his wife, who is in a hospice, for the last time.
#peoplearegood
#makeyourweekcount
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In a community full of actual real life funny people you have to feel a bit of pity for the group so so so so desperate to be included.
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Truly a special type of chutzpah to demand you be treated kindly when you go round telling people to suck their mums vagina with a straw when they politely and privately point out you engaged in antisemitism but hey what do I know? 🤷🏻♀️
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It has taken labours antisemitism crisis to see how many on the left are literally only willing to show ‘solidarity’ to people experiencing racism if they are also left wing enough. But also how mind blowingly unashamed they are of expressing that as their position.
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Keep re reading this and I just…. 🤯what a fucking liberty. As if.
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I still can’t believe two weeks ago terrorists mutilated Jewish babies hacked away at a pregnant women and her unborn baby and the only people who have taken to the streets in condemnation and horror has been mostly Jews.
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He told
@Daniel_Sugarman
that he didn't write the racist post. So who is this mysterious figure who keeps writing on Labour Councillors/members Facebook's Twitters's - there is one busy lizzy racist out there!
Ladies and Gentleman.
A Labour Councillor in 2018.
But yeah. All just a smear.
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Maybe those with big opinions admitting not to have read Jews Don’t Count should I dunno you know, read it? Just an idea.
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Weaning: Chopping tomatoes at 7AM to soften them in scrambled egg with a sprinkle of turmeric for your baby to chuck them on the floor and laugh in your face.
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Has it not occurred to Steve Bell that the reason the guardian didn’t publish his cartoon wasn’t a mysterious conspiracy but because it was shit?
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Genuine question. If as all the defenders say Labour antisemitism is not as widespread as it is made out... why whenever I or any of my colleagues mention it the only people we hear from in their droves are perpetuating it or denying its existence?
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I. Can. Literally. Not. Anymore.
Labour Parliamentary Candidate: It's Not a Fact That Killing Jewish Athletes is an Anti-Semitism Issue
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Eight days of Chanukah/10 days of isolation with covid. Not mine my child but unfortunately toddlers can’t isolate themselves. Send doughnuts 😩😩.
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So nice of the Welsh Labour Group to consider the feelings and distress of its Assembly Member, who accused Jews of inventing security fears, and not the distress of the Jewish members with the concerns!
Exclusive: Labour politician was readmitted, despite still being investigated, because she was 'very distressed'
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I imagine this from David Lammy will disappoint a lot of people. "Can't wait to welcome" 😬
Well done to my old home town Peterborough for seeing off the
@brexitparty_uk
and sticking with
@UKLabour
. Great campaigning from colleagues
@Vernon_Coaker
and
@LouHaigh
and the team. Can’t wait to welcome
@LisaForbes_
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I will never forget
@MarcusDysch
face after asking one attendee what brings them here? And them reply 'i don't know. What is this? I just got a email to be here!'
Will never, ever forget turning up to the launch of the Chakrabarti report with
@Rosa_Doherty
expecting to see Jewish community members - but instead finding the venue packed with raging hard-left Corbynistas. A defining moment.
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This is straight up no question discrimination. How any well meaning person has the gall to be associated with this kind of behavior is beyond. How bloody embarrassing.
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In the
@JewishChron
this week we look at a really important and so far untouched on consequence of Labour's failure to deal with antisemitism. Writing it was genuinely upsetting and the latest Chris Williamson news speaks to it so much, that it is, well, ironic.
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@Kerensd
@MarcusDysch
@Daniel_Sugarman
What i find so upsetting/scary is that these people literally think they are walking talking screaming examples of 'good citizens' incapable of prejudice. They are what scare me more than anything.
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This is horrific. When I witnessed and experienced very similar on a london bus (although targeted at Jewish school children) the man was found and prosecuted. He received a custodial sentence. So should this man. Disgusting.
My brother [who is visibly Jewish] was attacked on the 113 bus, heading in direction of Oxford Circus, London at 11:33PM and threatened to "slit his throat for Palestine".
Will anything be done about this rampant
#Antisemitism
@tfl
@CST_UK
@antisemitism
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@terrychristian
Please Terry tell us more about your knowledge of Jewish communal structures and where you acquired your knowledge?
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Seems
@DerbyChrisW
has deleted this. Which is why you should share it far and wide. Disgusting.
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BREAKING: A Labour Party spokesperson said:
“Chris Williamson is suspended from the Party, and therefore the whip, pending investigation.”
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If you want to be depressed further by the never ending lack of fucks given by internet giants about racism on their platforms you just need to look at the blue tick Instagram accounts on Wiley’s cheering him on.
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That anyone let alone senior Labour figures would go out of their way to defend this man and his vile nonsense is literally all you need to know. Morally bankrupt.
After almost 44 years of loyal service and commitment, it's with a heavy heart that I'm resigning from the Labour Party.
I'll be standing as an independent candidate for Derby North to fight for social justice, internationalism and socialist values.
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