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Corbyn was in charge when we received a statutory judgement that we had discriminated against Jewish people, institutionally. He was specifically called out for a failure of leadership in that judgement, and in the subsequent Forde report, in not tackling the issue and not taking it seriously.
That's an interesting interpretation/précis.
Just been through the Forde report and there are no such suggestions, so either you've misinterpreted the report or are making it up.
As far as I remember, the EHRC upheld two complaints after a lengthy investigation. Two. I would ask whether you think the volume of column inches devoted to the crisis was proportionate to upholding two cases of discrimination, but you've already hinted at your view, so I won't bother.
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It's not a precis, it's a direct quote. The EHRC report has a whole chapter called 'A Failure of Leadership', page 100, but their view is best summarised by the following quote:
We found specific examples of harassment, discrimination and political
interference in our evidence, but equally of concern was a lack of leadership
within the Labour Party on these issues, which is hard to reconcile with its stated
commitment to a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism.The Forde Report says the following:
"In contrast to the widespread response from the membership, some key figures within the Party were notably silent ... Regrettably, certain prominent members of the Party (including those central to the factual matrix) either declined to meet with the Panel or failed to respond to our requests for evidence. Most notably, while he was a signatory to a joint written submission, Jeremy Corbyn did not engage in our requests to interview him"
You are fundamentally wrong on your interpretation of the EHRC report btw. It does not matter if it found that Labour had institutionally discriminated against Jewish people on one or a hundred occasions, that it found we had done so at all IS the judgement. It had 220 complaints to choose from, of which it investigated 58, and 12 from the Labour Party itself. The detailed analysis it published to demonstrate the legitimacy of the ruling was literally the tip of the iceberg.
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In the interests of balance - it’s also possible you’ve misread the report, or misunderstood what he was saying.
Although - I just spent 10 minutes word searching “serious” and “Corbyn” in the Forde report and also couldn’t find any of those suggestions, but I gave up.
I don’t have a good understanding of it all and in part am just trying to improve that.
ReekBlefs
t.o.
This may be technically true, but many things are technically true and also utterly inappropriate, tone-deaf, and unprofessional to say. Corbyn was in charge when we received a statutory judgement that we had discriminated against Jewish people, institutionally. He was specifically called out for a failure of leadership in that judgement, and in the subsequent Forde report, in not tackling the issue and not taking it seriously.
There are people who could make this point. But he isn't one of them, and on that day least of all. It could've been a point of healing for our Jewish friends and allies. But once again Corbyn made it all about himself.