I don't really read the @guardian anymore, but occasionally I come across such nonsense that I have to comment on it. #antisemitism 1/

Like a dog to a bone, the Guardian cannot help returning to the the myth of an antisemitism crisis in Labour, even though it has the worst record in reporting on this issue. 2/

Here's the report, with all the facts, from the Media Reform Coalition and Birkbeck (the same university David Feldman comes from) https://www.mediareform.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Labour-antisemitism-and-the-news-FINAL-PROOFED.pdf 3/

As you can see the Guardian, which begs us for money at the end of every article to save journalism, produced by far the most inaccurate reporting on this issue, even though it is obsessed by it. 4/

There is one fact in this article. That antisemitism in the UK is small. It is in fact historically low and amongst the lowest in the world between 5-8%. 5/

Now you would think that fact would lead to a more reasonable discussion about antisemitism in the Labour party. 6/

Well of course it wouldn't. Because since this figure isn't alarming enough we have to use another figure that 30% of people in the UK hold antisemitic views but they aren't antisemitic (I will let you think about the logic of that) 7/

You then have to imply that these 30% of people somehow are disproportionately members of the Labour party, although there is no evidence they are. 8/

Will you provide any evidence, any facts, or figures to backup this rather startling proposal? 9/

Of course you won't. Because this is a smear, so you don't have to do that. What you will imply is that anyone who questions this smear is 'partisan' or is antisemitic themselves 10/

The problem is we have the facts, and unless David Feldman is completely stupid, he knows them. In all the years, only 0.3% of Labour members have been alleged to have antisemitic views 11/

Alleged and not proven (and compare this to the figure of 30%). Actual proven cases are between 0.06% and 0.08%. There is one case that the police have handed to the CPS. 12/

These aren't 'partisan' views. They are facts. They are facts and figures that have been published and scrutinised in academically peer reviewed research. Here is a review of a book that has done just that. /13 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-923X.12806

David Feldman must also know that the all the research and evidence shows that antisemitism is much more prevalent on the right than the left, and yet he almost obsessively and exclusively focuses on the Labour party. 14/

He must also know the vast amount of hate crimes and violent racism in this country is not against Jews but other ethnic groups, religions, the disabled, other sexualities, and transgender people. Here is the hate crime report 15/ http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8537/CBP-8537.pdf

The report notes for example that the large spike in racial and religiously motivated hate crime of 44% was during the referendum in 2016 and 2017 terrorist attacks. It was not due to a mythical 'left wing reservoir of antisemitism'. 16/

The report also concludes that 'Asians were the ethnic group who had the highest proportion of victims to have suffered racially motivated hate crime.' Not Jewish people, and not Jewish people at the hands of the left.17/

I could go on, but I suggest you read the report yourself. What I can say, because it always has to be said, that pointing out that the facts show that the Labour antisemitism crisis is a myth is not antisemitic. That this has to be said shows what a sorry state we are in 18/