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I tried to call @MaajidNawaz on LBC to discuss this today.

A THREAD ON LABOUR ANTISEMITISM.>>>>>>

My thread is a puzzle that includes celebrity endorsements, Jewish Labour MP’s and a leadership who are “Just not listening” to the Jewish community.

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It isn’t just Maureen Lipman (and other prominent celebrities). The actress and comedienne has announced she will not be voting Labour at the next election.

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...it couldn’t get any worse” she (Lipman) wrote in Standpoint magazine, “just when the anti-Semitism in France, Denmark, Norway, Hungary is mounting savagely, just when our cemeteries and synagogues and shops are once again under threat.

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Lipman gives a powerful – and “accurate” – critique of Labour’s Mid East policy. And it’s a critique that should have Labour “leadership” and his advisers very, very worried, because the Labour party’s support within the Jewish community is now ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE !!

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It’s serious” one influential Jewish Labour supporter told me this morning. “There are now genuine questions being asked about whether we will be able to vote Labour next May”.

(Stick with it there’s a punchline on this thread )

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But by far the biggest issue – as Lipman identifies in her piece – is the failure of the “Labour leadership” to speak out forcefully on the growth of anti-Semitism, both across Europe and in the UK.

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Jewish Labour supporters, (and indeed some Labour MPs), have also been asking why “Labour leadership” has left it to backbencher John Mann to lead the condemnation of a campaign of anti-Semitism CURRENTLY being directed at Labour MP LUCIANA BERGER?

(Clue below... date!)

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On Wednesday (October 2014!) John Mann took to the floor of the House of Commons to demand action over what he described as a campaign of “abuse against a member (Luciana Berger) of this House continuing on daily basis”.

(I’ll tell you about this abuse against Berger later)

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“Labour leadership” has been consistently warned about the deterioration of Labour’s support within the Jewish community. In July the Jewish Chronicle wrote (Stephen Pollard)...

(Note July was July 2014! )

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She continued - “Until my (Maureen Lipman’s words!) party is once more led by mensches.” The Jewish community is preparing to break with Laubour’s first Jewish leader. ED MILIBAND needs to ask himself why.”

All spun by Dan Hodges OCTOBER 2015 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11198691/Labours-first-Jewish-leader-is-losing-the-Jewish-vote.html

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So in 6 above the 2014 Dan Hodges article mentioned that Luciana Berger was getting DAILY HATRED.

And that it was somehow Ed Miliband’s fault... Sound familiar ?

Well...the media continued using this Berger narrative in recent years too. https://twitter.com/tweetforthemany/status/1111644678133350401?s=21

Now - I'd like to talk about the 'increase in antisemitism' -

Maureen Lipman seem to be trolling everyone.

2/3 of Jewish people were considering their future in the UK in 2014 - according to the Jewish Chronicle and reported in this 2014 article below. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184680