Judging by the anti-Corbyn corporate media, you could be forgiven for thinking that those who recently left the UK Labour Party and set up a body known as The Independent Group (TIG) - now 8, having just been joined by Joan Ryan MP (chair of Labour Friends of Israel!) - were motivated first and foremost by the foul contagion of anti-Semitism, spreading like wildfire among party members.
Murdoch's Times, for example, ran a report by Daniel Finkelstein, headed Labour Party plagued by political preachers of hate (The Times/The Australian, 21/2/19)*
And yet, if you go to TIG's website, and click on their statement (of 11 principles), the plague of anti-Semitism supposedly afflicting the party doesn't even rate a mention! (theindependent.group/statement)
And if you go to the Labour Party website, LabourList, you can read that "the party received 673 accusations of antisemitism by Labour members between April 2018 and January 2019," involving just 96 individuals, only 12 of whom "were expelled," following investigations by the party's National Executive Committee (NEC).** (See Jennie Formby provides numbers on Labour antisemitism cases, Sienna Rodgers, labourlist.org, 11/2/19)
The revelation that "[t]hese figures relate to about 0.1% of our membership," according to Labour general secretary Jennie Formby, who released the data so that it could not be "misrepresented or misused for other purposes by the party's political rivals," really says it all. (ibid)
Plague of ant-Semitism? Pull the other...
[*For Daniel Finkelstein, see my 12/2/19 post Games Zionists Play;**I hasten to add here that, absent the details, we really have no idea whether the NEC got it right when it decided to expel the 12.]
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