Corbyn was fired from time to time for his comments on an official report that Labor under his leadership had failed to deal with anti-Semitism in its ranks. In addition, according to the report, such failures have caused illegal harassment and discrimination. Corbyn called the report’s conclusions “exaggerated.”
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Now the 71-year-old politician has been returned to office and taken back. According to the BBC, it is not yet clear whether it will face further sanctions. “I am grateful to all the thousands of accomplices, trade unionists and supporters from around the world who have expressed their support,” Corbyn said on Tuesday.
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He reiterated that he wanted the whole matter to be resolved as soon as possible so that the party could get rid of anti-Semitism once and for all and unite against the “harmful conservative government”.
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Conservatives have called for expulsion forever
New opposition leader Keir Starmer has warned against anyone downplaying anti-Semitism in the party, let alone calling it “exaggerated.” Although Party Secretary David Evans decided to suspend Corbyn’s membership, Starmer supported his decision.
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Conservative Party co-chairwoman Amanda Milling sent a letter to Starmer on Tuesday criticizing Corbyn’s latest decision. “You claimed that the Laborers were ‘under new leadership’, but now is the time to prove it. Mr. Corbyn should be expelled forever, “she wrote.
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Criticism was added, for example, by the Labor Jewish Movement, according to which Corbyn still did not apologize for the absence of a solution to ongoing anti-Semitic tendencies. “Jeremy Corbyn is not a victim of anti-Semitism in the Labor Party. Jewish members do, ”the statement said. But some Labor MPs praise the move. “Welcome back!” for example, Nadia Whittome wrote.
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Welcome back @jeremycorbyn! I’m very pleased to see Jeremy reinstated.
⁰⁰It’s time for our party to move forward: implement the recommendations of the EHRC report, root out antisemitism and come together to fight against this dangerous government. We have big battles to win.
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) November 17, 2020
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Corbyn and anti-Semitism
Corbyn has been accused of having a problematic attitude toward Jews for some time. In 2011, for example, he said the BBC’s public service broadcaster was biased in informing about Israel. “The claim that Israel is a democracy, that it has a right to exist and that it has its security concerns is, in my view, biased,” he said at the time. The words aroused great criticism.
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Jeremy Corbyn was born in 1949 in Chippenham. He has been a Member of Parliament for the London Borough of North Islington since 1983. Between 2015 and 2020, he led the Labor Party. |
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Another time, he met with members of the terrorist organization Hamas and called them his “friends”. He immediately apologized for that. But critics say that under his leadership, anti-Semitic attitudes have spread in the party, with hatred of the Jewish ethnic group hiding behind criticism of Israel. In 2016, Corbyn commissioned an internal audit, which concluded that the party was not controlled by any form of discrimination, even though there were “occasional toxic moods.”
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The Commission, which carried out the analysis, proposed steps to improve the situation. However, the party leadership did not implement them. In April of this year, an internal report leaked to find out why Corbyn’s leadership did not pay more attention to anti-Semitism complaints. The authors found that it was, in fact, Corbyn’s critics who blocked the solution – in an attempt to get it away.
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