To be fair there it’s the Labour Party who is under investigation for racism by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and who is frightening the Jewish community to the point where people feel the need to speak out. So he may be obnoxious but no political party has some sort of moral high ground regarding race.
0.08% of a membership of over 500,000 (the largest socialist party in W Europe) being investigated does not an antisemitism crisis make (Less than 500 people being investigated). And it is the press and the Jewish establishment that are stoking the flames (the same Jewish establishment that votes for the Tories - Chief Rabbi Mirvis, as an example, who is mates with Boris AND Theresa May at best represents 25% of the Jewish population in Britain and maybe half of British Jewry is represented by the Board of Deputies and even less by the Jewish Leadership Council). Not the Labour Party itself.
The Jewish community is SO divided on this that the Jewish Labour Movement’s younger members have split off to form Jews Against Boris in order to campaign for Labour. I know, because I am proud to be one of them.
It’s also noteworthy that Labour is polling at least 25 points ahead of every other party in the polls when it comes to support from ethnic minorities because it is the one party that has consistently stood up for minorities.
As for the EHRC, I find it extremely difficult to take them seriously when 1. you look at the
background of the Board members and 2.they have repeatedly resisted calls to investigate the Tories for Islamophobia. And this is the same party that presided over the Windrush scandal. I suppose if one believes in and supports a hierarchy of racism, with many believing antisemitism is the most egregious (it is not, btw - those of us who are white Jews are not subjected to state power and abuse) then yes, we’re inclined to take these claims more seriously and legitimately than the actions of a party that have led to the deportation and LITERAL DEATHS of black people of Windrush. ***
And this is the bleeping party Sali’s bleeping husband votes for***
There is no one Jewish voice or community, and especially no hive mind on Labour, so please don’t speak about us as if we are a monolith because that in itself is antisemitism.