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Being a @bhlabour member that’s seen firsthand @UKLabour’s descent in this city into a hateful, antisemitic cesspit in recent years, this week’s EHRC report I suspect will prove particularly poignant. /1
Firstly, way back at the beginning of 2017, we saw the election of rabid antisemite @BeckyCheAbas to Hove Labour’s EC. https://antisemitism.org/just-another-day-for-racist-labour-as-antisemitic-tweets-of-partys-chair-in-hove-brunswick-and-adelaide-revealed/ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theargus.co.uk/news/15074382.amp/ This resulted in our CLP being unable to hold meetings in buildings connected to our local Jewish community. /2
https://antisemitism.org/former-clp-chair-rebecca-massey-finally-expelled-from-labour-but-apparently-not-for-antisemitism-as-another-clp-chair-also-reportedly-suspended/ Shockingly, @BeckyCheAbas was only finally expelled this year, after her support for Chris Williamson at the last GE as a non-Labour candidate came to light. The 3-year time period it took demonstrates our institutional antisemitism under Corbyn. /3
Even more shockingly, Lloyd Russell Moyle, at the time a Frontbencher, wrote @beckycheabas a supportive letter following on from her suspension, despite her warped & depraved views being well known. MPs mustn’t be so cavalier about antisemitism. /4 https://antisemitism.org/labours-controversial-shadow-cabinet-member-lloyd-russell-moyle-apologises-for-calling-zionism-dangerous-after-social-media-posts-and-his-defence-of-expelled-local-activist/
Last April, we saw the suspension of @bhlabour candidate Alex Braithwaite, who despite standing in B&H’s ward with the largest Jewish population, a marginal ward, was found to be a hateful, obsessive & unrepentant antisemite. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6925687/amp/Labour-council-candidate-suspended-sharing-abhorrent-posts-Israel.html /5
Immediately following her suspension, @jonrogers1963, at the time Chair of @bhlabour’s LCF, called for her immediate reinstatement, despite her vile racism being widely reported across several national newspapers. https://order-order.com/2019/04/16/local-labour-chair-attempts-overturn-anti-semitism-candidate-suspension/ /6
This was followed by @bhlabour members expressing their support for the very racist Ms Braithwaite, including one party member, Amanda Bishop, who proposed that @bhlabour ‘march onto the city’s synagogues’, in protest at her suspension. https://order-order.com/2019/04/29/private-labour-facebook-group-defends-suspended-activist-member-calls-march-synagogue/ /7
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/labour-member-suspended-over-call-to-march-on-synagogue-11707432 https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/labour-activist-suspended-after-call-to-march-on-synagogue/ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/march-on-synagogue-says-uk-labour-party-member-588222/amp https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2019/04/30/police-to-take-no-action-against-labour-member-who-called-for-march-on-synagogue/ Ms Bishop’s comments were subsequently widely reported across the nation’s media, and are believed to have had an electoral impact on @bhlabour the following Thursday. /8
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/excl-labour-failed-to-act-for-10-days-over-member-who-called-for-march-on-synagogue It must be noted too that @UKLabour under @thomaskgardiner’s management were aware of Ms Bishop’s comments for 10 days but chose to only suspend the said individual when her comments were reported in the public domain. /9
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/we-should-have-marched-to-shuls-or-anywhere-these-bastards-hang-out-says-momentum-activist-1.501993 Furthermore, this year following on from the fall of @bhlabour Council for reasons all relating to antisemitism, Ms Bishop doubled down on these disgusting remarks resembling that of a Nazi. /10
https://order-order.com/2019/09/11/top-labour-figures-attend-rally-stuffed-anti-semites/ The extent to which @BHLabour had a become hateful, antisemitic cesspit were demonstrated when a @PeoplesMomentum rally hosted by @RichardBurgon & other prominent figures, had at its front a whole row of suspended/expelled antisemites. /11
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2020/03/13/labour-councillor-steps-down-from-housing-role-over-anti-israel-placard-at-council-demo/ In March this year, pictures were uncovered of Nikkie Brennan, then @bhlabour’s Deputy Chair of Housing, having led a march alongside Tony Greenstein against the former @bhlabour adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism. /12
Following on from the publication of this story and her resignation from her post, Nikkie Brennan doubled down on her actions, referring to supporters of the IHRA as ‘white suprematists’. https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2020/05/21/labour-councillor-investigated-for-alleged-anti-semitism-slammed-white-supremacy/ /13
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/first-jk-rowling-now-israel-labour-frontbencher-forced-to-apologise-for-second-time-in-a-month-zvhp9p73j Several month’s later, @UKLabour’s Kemptown MP, Lloyd Russell Moyle, was found to have previously made deeply offensive remarks about Zionism. This subsequently led to his resignation from the Frontbench several days later. /14
https://www.bn1magazine.co.uk/brighton-councillor-anne-pissaridou-suspended-from-labour-party/ This same week saw the suspension of senior @BHLabour CLLR @paulinemable, whose Facebook was found to have been an antisemitic sewer, full of racist conspiracy theories and hateful content. /15
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2020/07/20/councillor-quits-labour-after-being-reported-for-anti-semitism/ Several days later, fellow prominent @BHLabour CLLR Kate Knight resigned from @UKLabour, immediately following on from a suspension issued for her Facebook similarly being a hateful, antisemitic sewer. /16
This subsequently led to @bhlabour losing control of the City Council, an event that is unprecedented in the history of Local Government in this city. /17
And last but not least, there is @greghadfield, a hard left rabble-rouser in Brighton and Hove, whose behaviour towards the city’s Jewish community in recent years, in the name of @bhlabour, has been so grotesque and distressing to see. https://twitter.com/lukey_stanger/status/1193265152587653121?s=21 /18 https://twitter.com/lukey_stanger/status/1193265152587653121
