Antisemitism in the Labour Party | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 30/12/2018

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00:03:06 1 History
00:06:10 1.1 1980s; rising pro-Palestinian views
00:11:35 1.2 Incidents in the 21st century
00:14:05 2 2015
00:16:05 3 2016
00:16:15 3.1 Inquiries and allegations
00:22:06 3.1.1 Jackie Walker
00:24:13 3.2 Criticisms
00:25:12 4 2017
00:25:22 4.1 Reported events
00:27:41 4.2 Election
00:31:25 4.3 Conference
00:33:16 4.4 Criticisms
00:34:29 5 2018
00:34:39 5.1 Facebook groups about Palestine containing antisemitic content
00:36:47 5.2 Corbyn and an allegedly antisemitic mural
00:42:37 5.3 Resignation of Christine Shawcroft
00:43:48 5.4 Pro-Corbyn Facebook groups containing antisemitic content
00:45:14 5.5 Jewdas Passover event
00:47:48 5.6 Israeli Labor Party cut ties with Corbyn
00:48:31 5.7 Meeting with the Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies
00:50:03 5.8 Other incidents and suspensions
00:57:44 5.9 Working definition of antisemitism
01:16:22 5.10 Jeremy Corbyn's responses
01:17:51 6 Rebuttals
01:18:01 6.1 Labour movement activists
01:19:52 6.2 Jewish activists and organisations
01:28:54 6.3 Academics
01:35:39 6.4 Journalists and authors
01:39:07 6.5 Researchers
01:41:38 7 Surveys and studies
01:41:48 7.1 Campaign Against Antisemitism
01:44:07 7.2 YouGov
01:44:55 7.3 iJewish Chronicle/i polls
01:45:51 7.4 Populus
01:46:26 7.5 Survation
01:47:20 7.6 Institute for Jewish Policy Research
01:50:47 8 See also



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Allegations of antisemitism in the UK Labour Party have been made since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as Labour Party leader in September 2015, and after controversial comments by Naz Shah and Ken Livingstone under Corbyn's leadership of the party. Following their comments, both Livingstone and Shah were suspended pending investigation.
The controversy prompted Corbyn to establish the Chakrabarti Inquiry to investigate the allegations of antisemitism in the Labour Party, which found that although antisemitism and other types of racism were not endemic within Labour, there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere". The all-party Home Affairs Select Committee held an inquiry into antisemitism in the United Kingdom the same year and found "no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party", but that the leadership's lack of action “risks lending force to allegations that elements of the Labour movement are institutionally antisemitic”. Disciplinary investigations have led to some party members being expelled or suspended for bringing the party into disrepute.  Livingstone resigned from the party in 2018 after being suspended for two years. Corbyn himself was the subject of controversy in 2018 after his comments on Facebook in 2012 concerning the removal of Freedom for Humanity, an allegedly antisemitic mural, were brought to public notice and for being a member of three Facebook groups in which antisemitic content was posted. Although mainstream Jewish groups have raised concerns about antisemitism in the Labour party, a number of more left-wing Jewish groups have disputed the antisemitism claims.
In July 2018, Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) adopted a new code of conduct that defines antisemitism for the purposes of disciplinary cases brought before the National Constitutional Committee. It included the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition, although it removed or amended four out of eleven of what allegedly constitutes antisemitism, added an additional three examples and amended points showing how criticising Israel can be antisemitic, which led to controversy and media furore over the agreed code. However, in September 2018, the NEC decided to add all 11 I ...