Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party for saying that 34% of Labour members have not had an anti-Semitism complaint made against them.

Tony Blair, noted right winger and prolific committer of war crimes, is still a member. #IStandwithCorbyn

For context:

The exact statement that got Corbyn suspended today was based on two statistics, one made up of public polling and one made up of complaints figures during his time as leader.

The first statistic was polling undertaken in 2019 (afaik) that asked the British public how large a problem they thought AS was in the Labour Party.

The public answered that, on average, they thought that 34% of Labour members had received anti-Semitism complaints against them

Corbyn corrected this by saying that in reality, 0.3% of Labour Party members had had AS complaints against them. He then rightly followed this up by saying that 0.3% of LP members having complaints against them is 0.3% too many.

He then said, using these two statistics, that the public perception of the scale of the problem in the party was overstated. He *did not say it was not a problem*. He explicitly said that one anti-Semite was one too many.

This was the statement that saw him suspended, even though this was perfectly in line with what the EHRC considered to be a legitimate use of free speech under the European Convention on Human Rights:

When an NEC meeting was held this evening, the General Secretary of the Party could not clearly point to which rule Corbyn broke.

The EHRC did not recommend suspension, and what Corbyn said would be considered fair use of free speech under its own interpretation.

Corbyn will, more than likely, be expelled. He will, however, have legitimate grounds to sue the Party if he is, because he will not have broken Labour Party rules nor employed his freedom of speech in a way that the EHRC does not deem as protected under the ECHR.

This is why leaders of trade unions and prominent Labour MPs tonight have said that this was a terrible move and Corbyn should be reinstated.

This is the context for people not aware. If you'd like to read the report yourself, it's here:

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf

Also Lisa Nandy, Shadow Foreign Secretary, went onto the radio today and argued that anti-Semitism was unique because it "punched up and not down" - employing a conspiratorial anti-Semitic trope of Jewish people being in a position of unique power in society

and is facing, as of present, no disciplinary action whatsoever.

(Also I apologize for my poor wording in this tweet as I implied that two thirds of Labour Party members had had AS complaints against them, when what I meant was that 34% had not in connection with what Corbyn said today but I can see how that interpretation is easily made...

...so I'm sorry for the clumsiness of my wording on the first tweet in this thread)