The section on me in the #LabourLeaks report is full of lies. Here& #39;s the facts:
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Firstly, Labour& #39;s claims of antisemitism against me are the usual smears.
This is best illustrated by the preposterous lie in the report that it is an antisemitic "trope" to call Louise Ellman a "Labour Friends of Israel officer".
This is best illustrated by the preposterous lie in the report that it is an antisemitic "trope" to call Louise Ellman a "Labour Friends of Israel officer".
That is not antisemitic: it is objective reality.
If reporting on that particular fact is considered a "trope" I suggest @LauraCatriona and the rest of her Labour inquisitors launch an investigation into Labour Friends of Israel for this "antisemitism" from their website:
If reporting on that particular fact is considered a "trope" I suggest @LauraCatriona and the rest of her Labour inquisitors launch an investigation into Labour Friends of Israel for this "antisemitism" from their website:
Labour& #39;s account of how I was denied a press pass to their 2019 conference is also a lie.
It is completely untrue that I applied for a press pass "despite being suspended from the Party" -- I applied for the pass in March 2019, some days *before* I was suspended as a member.
It is completely untrue that I applied for a press pass "despite being suspended from the Party" -- I applied for the pass in March 2019, some days *before* I was suspended as a member.
Another lie in the #LabourLeaks report is that my application for the pass was "rejected". I was approved in July. Here& #39;s the email from Labour conference services:
However, they never sent my pass, because it was then revoked the following month, in retribution for my reporting on Palestine, Labour, and the antisemitism smear campaign; as @AliAbunimah reported at the time: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/labours-poor-excuses-revoking-asa-winstanleys-press-pass">https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali...
Finally, the #LabourLeaks report proves I was right when I quit in February protesting that their "investigation" of me was actually "a show trial with a foregone conclusion": https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/why-i-just-quit-labour-party">https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa...
What the document reveals is that, even while Labour& #39;s bureaucrats wrote to me with a letter giving the pretense of a neutral process to be deliberated by the NEC, Labour staff had actually already recommend the NEC expel me.