ANTISEMITISM IN THE UK LABOUR PARTY

ELECTED ANTISEMITIC UK LABOUR PARTY OFFICIALS

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DORIAN BARTLEY – a Diversity Officer with UK Labour Gipsy Hill branch in south London shared antisemitism including a graphic post comparing Israel to the Nazis on his Facebook profile page and no one from the Labour Party objected?

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ELAINE LIGHTFOOT –  UK Labour council candidate for Okehampton North West Devon and CLP Women’s Officer shared a post online that compared Jewish MP Margaret Hodge to Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister.

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ELEANOR TRISTRAM – a candidate for Stafford Borough Council, shared a claim on Facebook that the Jewish MP Ruth Smeeth was funded by the ‘Israel lobby’ and also described the Labour antisemitism crisis as a ‘smear’ organised by “pro-Israel Labour MPs”.

39

FRANCES NAGGS was selected as a UK Labour  candidate in Staffordshire Moorlands. Frances said Jewish protest against antisemitism was work of ‘powerful special interest group’.

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GEORGE MCMANUS – who served on the UK Labour  National Policy Forum wrote on Facebook: “Apparently Electoral Commission states that Watson received £50,000+ from Jewish donors. At least Judas only got 30 pieces of silver.”

He was let off by Labour.

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HARRY VIRCO – a candidate for Fylde council in Lancashire, wrote on Twitter: “Has Israel & the Jewish people learned nothing from their persecution under Hitler? Yes they have! They now know how to persecute other people & especially children.”

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HELEN VALESKA aka “Nelly Jane Lotus” – the Women’s officer of South West Wiltshire Constituency Labour Party. She’s fond of sharing David Icke’s conspiracy theories & even attending his events. She also believes that Jews have no right to live in Israel. She shares these views widely on FB no one from Labour appear to have objected.

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CLLR ILYAS AZIZ urged Jews to “stop drinking Gaza’s blood,”. He has also compared the actions of Israelis towards the Palestinians to the actions of Nazis & said Jews in the Middle East could move to the U.S. No action was taken by the K Labour Party.

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Former Mayor of Shrewsbury CLLR IOAN GRUFFYDD JONES  shared linked far-right white supremacist antisemitic propaganda Website smoloko.com on Facebook, among other unpleasant posts.

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CLLR IRFAN MOHAMMED shared a post claiming Jews were warned to stay home on 9/11. He posted a video on Facebook claiming that Jews “received a text message before the incident “Do not come to work on Sep 11 & there are Israeli ties to the Sep 11 attacks”

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IRFAN JAVED – a UK Labour candidate in Woodfield in Stevenage. He ranted on Facebook about “Jew propaganda” and commented: “I am just suspicious. This is what Jewish dominated western media usually does.” He also compared Zionism to Nazism.

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JACKIE WALKER – Ex Vice-Chair of Peoples Momentum, was expelled from the Labour Party, but not after Jennie Formby, the General Secretary of the Labour Party at the time, tried to save her. Walker carries on her harassment and stalking of Jews on her @Jackiew80333500 Twitter account.

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JACK CRITCHLOW, Chair of Torbay CLP, and a UK Labour candidate, said when suspended for antisemitism “I am the victim of Labour’s over-sensitive reaction to a situation that has needlessly got out of hand and of no relevance to the council election campaign.”

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CLLR JADE DOSWELL, a UK Labour councillor  who represents Fallowfield in Manchester said that she was a “little bit sick in my mouth” at the sight of an Israeli flag. No action was taken by Labour.

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JANIE LEE – a council candidate in Grantham, shares actual NEO NAZI memes.

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JEAN THRITTLE – a candidate for North Norfolk District Council, shared a post which showed Israeli and Nazi flags side by side. Amazingly, Ray Mooney, the Chair of North Norfolk Labour Party saw nothing wrong with this and said she was “entitled to her views”

52

JAHANGIR AKHTAR – the ex-Deputy Mayor of Rotherham shared this antisemitic image on his Facebook page.

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JEFF DAVIS – a UK Labour  candidate in the Wirral, a “good trade unionist”, and antisemite: Jeff shared posts stating:- “Just listen to this conniving deceitful pair posing as a couple of poor persecuted Jews”

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JEFFREY FROUD shared vile antisemitic posts. He was suspended from the Labour Party but, still stood as a Labour candidate in Dartford.

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JENNY JOY-MATTHEWS – a UK Labour candidate in Derbyshire. She is an antisemitic conspiracy theorist, who sees the “hand of Israel” behind everything.

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JENNY MANSON – Chair of “Jewish” voice for Labour. She is a deceptive individual who started to identify as Jewish in order to attack Israel. Also, she compared IHRA definition of antisemitism to the controversial Section 28 and defended Miko Peled’s Holocaust denial comments made at a JVL/FSOI meeting.

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JENNY RATHBONE – a Welsh Labour AM was let off after saying Jews’ security fears are “in their own heads” and suggesting that the Israeli government is interfering in UK politics.

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JERRY GOULD – a Labour candidate in Patcham for the Brighton and Hove Council was slammed for an ‘openly anti-Semitic’ letter he sent to colleagues in Brighton in which he branded Israel racist and praised the BNP.

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JOHN CLARKE – a UK Labour Councillor and a parliamentary candidate for Labour in Essex, berated Jewish victims of the holocaust, saying we should have “fought back” and the Rothschild’s have “used usury as an imperial instrument to take over the world and all of its resources, including you and I.”

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JOHN SHAW – a UK Labour political education officer made a sick jibe about cutting the throats of supporters of Israel and was let off by Labour. Only when the Daily Mail got the story was he suspended, no one knows what has happened since.

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JONATHAN ROSENHEAD – a leader of “Jewish” Voice for Labour. Rosenhead apparently:

  • thinks that modern-day Jews are “imposters from ‘Khazaria”
  • blames Israel for the issues of antisemitism plaguing the Labour leadership.
  • said that Zionists stopped Jews getting out of Germany

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JOSS McDONALD – Jeremy Corbyn’s speechwriter branded “Israel an apartheid” state and insisted “people excuse its behaviour because of the Holocaust”.

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KASEY CARVER – a council candidate for Labour High Peak. She’s a well-known associate and friend of convicted Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz. Carver is also an antisemite.

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KAREN BETT – a UK Labour
Woman’s Officer, posted an antisemitic cartoon. The animated clip showed a caricature of a Palestinian teenager slapping a hook-nosed Jewish jailer.

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KATE LINNEGAR – a UK Labour parliamentary candidate for North Swindon and a member of Unite the union, has been caught several times promoting antisemitic views on social media.

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KEITH KENDRICK – a UK Labour council candidate from Derbyshire. Keith thinks that:
 
  • “Zionists”(read Jews) are responsible for global terror attacks
  • Zionists have a global agenda
  • Jews are “Nazis”
  • Zionists have caused antisemitism
  • The Rothschilds control world media

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KEN LIVINGSTONE needs no introduction. Here is a thread about his past antisemitic comments. He also appeared on Iranian TV, where the host repeatedly claimed the “Holocaust has become an industry” (on Holocaust memorial day). UK Labour let him resign.

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KIERIN OFFLANDS – Youth Officer of Lewisham Labour and a member of Momentum, called Jews “Zio Nazis.” He was let off with a warning by the General Secretary of the Labour Party Jennie Formby.

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CLLR LEAH LEVENE – a councillor at Hastings Borough Council and co-chair of “Jewish” Voice for
Labour thinks: “Jews are often agents of exploitation.”

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LESLEY MCLEAN – a UK Labour council candidate in North Devon says party’s own MPs are ‘controlled by Israel’.

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