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Great article from @karie_murphy - and reflects accurately my understanding too. The mantra of "Labour is doing nothing about antisemitism" was entirely false. 1/ https://twitter.com/schneiderhome/status/1320813116704329731
2/ I did a thread a while about about the way in which historic cases of antisemitism were laid at Corbyn's door as soon as he took over the leadership https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1089118099410964482.html
3. For an organisation that was "doing nothing about antisemitism", we appointed Baroness Royall to investigate allegations at the Oxford University Labour Club - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/18/labour-antisemitism-party-jewish-chakrabarti
4. We appointed Shami Chakrabati who, on a panel that included Baroness Royall, investigated wider allegations of antisemitism in the party, again in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/30/labour-antisemitism-report-shami-chakrabarti-jeremy-corbyn
5. Jeremy Corbyn attended and was rigorously questioned by the Home Affairs Committee enquiry into antisemitism, again in 2016 (David Cameron declined to attend). The conclusion was that there was no more antisemitism in Labour than in any other party.
6. Labour supported the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism in December 2016 https://labourlist.org/2016/12/corbyn-backs-official-definition-to-stamp-out-repugnant-anti-semitism/
7. At the Conference in 2017, the Jewish Labour Movement was given the Del Singh Award https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jewish-labour-movement-receives-campaigning-award-at-conference/
8. On the same day at Conference, a JLM-proposed motion was passed with 92% of votes in support, making antisemitism a specific disciplinary offence. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/26/labour-to-adopt-new-antisemitism-rules-after-conference-row
9. When @Jennieformby1 took over as GS and the scale of the backlog of complaints became apparent, a Jewish QC was appointed to give legal advice, and case resolution was speeded up. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/11/labour-has-looked-into-673-cases-of-alleged-antisemitism-figures-show
10. You can pick holes. You can disagree with the findings of the Royall, Chakrabati and Home Affairs Committee reports. You can say Gordon Nardell was "the wrong kind of QC". Feel free. But you can't look at this evidence (and I may have missed some) and call it " doing nothing"
