Should Labour Auto Expel Anti Semites?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48887671
GB thinks so but that's could be half the party gone!

[jno]

should the Tories auto expel Islamophobes, or is it okay to hate some Semites?

[ToraToraTora]

stop trying to change the subject jno, there is no where near a comparable situation between labour and the Tories.

[agchristie]

Nearly three years have passed and still no sign that Labour are seriously tackling the problem.

Surely, GB's suggestion has already been considered?

Brown, Blair etc must be utterly in despair at the state of Labour.

[highbury57]

Labour doesn’t expel anti-Semites, it recruits them.

[ProfessorMaisie]

It's a mistake to think that all followers of Islam are Semitic. For the most part, the anti-Semites in the Labour party who follow Islam, are not themselves Semitic.
There are around 80 constituencies in England where these anti-Semites number 10%+ of the total population and 75 of them have Labour MPs. Their numbers are growing and the 5 Tory constituencies won't be Tory for very much longer (majorities have shrunk rapidly over just a few years).
This is why Labour keeps faith with its anti-Semites.

[johnk]

Why is the slightest critism of Israel anti semetic, are they the perfect country which can do no wrong?

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Why is the slightest critism of Israel anti semetic?//

It is not. Neither would be the most vigorous criticism of Israel.

It is possible to hate Israel without hating Jews. Although why you as a decent modern person who believes in gay rights and feminism would hate Israel more than the vile regimes around it I don't know. Gays for Gaza?

[ToraToraTora]

John, hardly, slight criticism:
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/labours-pockets-of-anti-semitism-the-evidence/
eg; //Labour Students at Oxford University Labour Club mocked the Jewish victims of the Paris kosher supermarket attack, called Auschwitz a ‘cash cow’//
or this little cracker:
//Corbyn came to the defence of Sheikh Raed Salah, who revived the medieval anti-Semitic ‘blood libel’ slur that Jews cook with children’s blood. // - and many more