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THREAD on the Labour Party report that was due to go to the EHRC, was withdrawn and has now been leaked everywhere. A few thoughts having read it /1
Firstly, it& #39;s a massive data breach. There are dozens of names of people investigated/suspended/expelled for antisemitism, often alongside the name of the (usually Jewish) person who reported them. It& #39;s an incitement to further antisemitic harassment and must be investigated /2
I& #39;ve redacted all but the most public or essential names from the parts I& #39;ve used in this thread, but the original leaked report is fully unredacted /3
Astonishingly, the report doesn& #39;t really defend the central EHRC allegation that the party discriminated against Jewish members: it just blames the factional opponents of the previous leadership. Labour antisemitism is real, cases were dropped or delayed etc. All accepted. /4
This argument that failings were due to internal processes and culture rather than personal antisemitic prejudice fits the definition of institutional racism perfectly - and blaming staff doesn& #39;t avoid the institutional responsibility /5
The whole report reads like a settling of accounts with factional opponents & with the whistle blowers who appeared on Panorama and gave evidence to the EHRC. The first 170 pages barely mention antisemitism but focus on factional in-fighting. It& #39;s like a parody of the left /6
At times it reads like the Labour Party and the Labour Party are two different organisations 
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When you get to the accounts of how the party dealt with antisemitism -or rather didn& #39;t deal with it - it& #39;s shameful. British Jews suffered four years of harassment, insults and gaslighting for claiming the party had a serious problem - and we were right all along /8
There are four pages on "denialism" and 15 pages on Corbyn& #39;s statements opposing antisemitism. But no room for the examples of Corbyn and his closest supporters encouraging that denialism in the first place /9
There& #39;s other places where the selectivity is obvious. The Royall report is mentioned but the NEC& #39;s decision not to publish it is ignored. The Chakrabarti Report launch is described without Marc Wadsworth& #39;s abuse of Ruth Smeeth /10
The account of Ken Livingstone& #39;s first suspension doesn& #39;t really fit with Livingstone& #39;s own claim that he was in almost daily contact with Corbyn& #39;s office to coordinate his media appearances /11
We do get confirmation that Livingstone& #39;s eventual resignation was suggested and coordinated by the party to avoid the pain of having to expel him /12
We also get confirmation that Corbyn& #39;s office tried to avoid suspending Naz Shah before changing their position a few hours later /13
The account of the meeting between Corbyn and Jewish community organisations in April 2018 is, um, not quite how we remember it /14
But Labour did use CST& #39;s Engine Of Hate report to identify and investigate antisemitic Labour-supporting Twitter accounts. Take that, outriders! /15
