1). Whilst the right wing media and Tory detritus continually libel and smear Jeremy  @jeremycorbyn and the  @UKLabour Party with accusations of endemic antisemitism, it's time to present the British people with actual FACTS, not smears with absolutely no proof to back them up.
2). So here are the FACTS. Please feel free to use google to fact check them for yourselves, rather than listen to the deliberately published propaganda deliberately aimed at Labour in order to damage and undermine our Party, as they have always done.
3). In October 1936, Jeremy Corbyn’s mother participated in the battle of Cable Street indefence of British Jews after British fascists had staged an assault on the area. Corbyn was raised in a household passionately opposed to antisemitism in all its forms.
4). On the 23rd April 1977, Corbyn organised a counter-demonstration to protect Wood Green from a neo-nazi march through the district. The area had a significant Jewish population.
5). On the 7th November 1990, Corbyn signed a motion condemning the rise of antisemitism in the UK.
6). In 2002 Jeremy Corbyn led a clean-up and vigil at Finsbury Park Synagogue which had been vandalised in an anti-Semitic attack.
7). On the 30th April 2002, Corbyn tabled a motion in the House of Commons condemning an anti-Semitic attack on a London Synagogue.
8). On the 26th November 2003, Jeremy Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion condemning terrorist attacks on two synagogues.
9). In February 2009, Jeremy Corbyn signed a parliamentary motion condemning a fascist for establishing a website to host antisemitic materials.
10). On the 24th March 2009, Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion praising British Jews who resisted the Holocaust by risking their lives to save potential victims.
11). Nine years ago, Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion praising “Jewish News”for its pioneering investigation into the spread of antisemitism on Facebook.
12). On the 9th February 2010, Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion calling for an investigation into Facebook and its failure to prevent the spread of antisemitic materials on its site.
13). On the 27th October 2010, Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion praising the late Israeli Prime Minister for pursuing a two state solution to the Israel/Palestine question.
14). On the 13 June 2012, Corbyn sponsored and signed a motion condemning the BBC for cutting a Jewish Community television programme from its schedule.
15). On the 1st October 2013, Corbyn appeared on the BBC to defend Ralph Miliband against vile antisemitic attacks by the UK press.
16). Five years ago Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion condemning antisemitism in sport.
17). On the 1st March 2013, Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion condemning and expressing concern at growing levels of antisemitism in European football.
18). On the 9th January 2014, Jeremy Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion praising Holocaust education programmes that had taken 20,000 British students to Auschwitz.
19). On the 22nd June 2015, Corbyn signed a Parliamentary motion expressing concern at the neo-nazi march being planned for an area of London with a significant Jewish population.
20). On the 9th October 2016, Corbyn, close to tears, commemorated the 1936 Battle of Cable Street and recalled the role his mother played in defending London’s Jewish community.
21). On the 3rd December 2016, Corbyn made a visit to Terezin Concentration Camp when Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis. It was Jeremy’s third visit to such a camp, all of which were largely unreported in the most read UK papers.
22). Last year, a widely-endorsed 2018 academic report found ninety-five serious reporting failures in the reporting of the Labour Antisemitism story with the worst offenders The Sun, the Mail & the BBC.
23). On the 28th February 2016, five months after becoming leader, Jeremy Corbyn appointed Baroness Royall to investigate antisemitism at Oxford University Labour Club.
24). On the 27th April 2016 Corbyn suspended an MP pending an investigation into antisemitism.
25). A day later, Corbyn suspended the three times Mayor of London after complaints of antisemitic comments.
26). On the 29th April 2016, Corbyn launched an inquiry into the prevalence of antisemitism in the Labour Party. In spite of later changes in how the inquiry was reported, it was initially praised by Jewish community organisations.
27). In Corbyn’s first seven months as leader of the Labour Party, just ten complaints were received about antisemitism. 90% of those were suspended from the Labour Party within 24 hours.
28). In September 2017, Corbyn backed a motion at Labour’s annual conference introducing a new set of rules regarding antisemitism.
29). In the six months that followed the introduction of the new code of conduct, to March 2018, 94% of the fifty-four people accused of antisemitism remained suspended or barred from Labour Party membership. Three of the fifty-four were exonerated.
30). When Jennie Formby became general secretary of the party last year, she appointed a highly-qualified in-house Counsel, as recommended in the Chakrabarti Report.
31). In 2018, Labour almost doubled the size of its staff team handling investigations and dispute processes.
32). Last year, to speed up the handling of antisemitism cases, smaller panels of 3-5 NEC members were established to enable cases to be heard more quickly.
33). Since 2018, every complaint made about antisemitism is allocated its own independent specialist barrister to ensure due process is followed.
34). The entire backlog of cases outstanding upon Jennie Formby becoming General Secretary of the Labour Party was cleared within 6 months of Jennie taking up her post.
35). Since September 2018, Labour has doubled the size of its National Constitutional Committee (NCC) – its senior disciplinary panel – from 11 to 25 members to enable it to process cases more quickly.
36). Under Formby and Labour’s left-run NEC, NCC arranged elections at short notice to ensure the NCC reached its new full capacity without delay.
37). Since late 2018, the NCC routinely convenes a greater number of hearing panels to allow cases to be heard and finalised without delay.
38). In 2018, the NEC established a ‘Procedures Working Group’ to lead reforms in the way disciplinary cases are handled.
39). The NEC adopted the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and all eleven examples of antisemitism attached to it.
40). A rule change agreed at Conference in 2018 means that all serious complaints, including antisemitism, are dealt with nationally to ensure consistency.
41). Last year, Jennie Formby wrote to the admins and moderators of Facebook groups about how they can effectively moderate online spaces and requested that any discriminatory content be reported to the Labour Party for investigation.
42). Since last year, no one outside Labour’s Governance and Legal Unit can be involved in decision-making on antisemitism investigations. This independence allows decisions free from political influence to be taken.
43). With thanks to the Channel Islands Alternative Media Page on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/ChannelIslandsAlternativeMedia/posts/1310948955713071?__tn__=K-R
Addendum [1]: A Parliamentary Inquiry was held from 2016-17, majority chaired by the  @Conservatives . It concluded that there was no evidence to suggest that antisemitism was a larger problem within Labour than in any other Party.
Addendum [2]: A YouGov poll conducted in 2017 concluded that antisemitism is more prevalent with the  @Conservatives Party and that antisemitism had fallen markedly within Labour under  @jeremycorbyn's tenure.
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