[IsraelTimes] Chris Williamson gets off with warning; British Jewish group calls reinstatement into party dogged by countless anti-Semitic scandals an ’utter disgrace’.A key ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who was suspended from the British party for sayings it is "too apologetic" over anti-Semitism has been readmitted.
A party ethics panel warned politician Chris Williamson on Wednesday for saying earlier this year that when it comes to Labour’s anti-Semitism problem, its deniers "have backed off too much, we have given too much ground, we have been too apologetic." Labour suspended Williamson in February pending an ethics review.
"Keep it on the down-low, big mouth"
The remark was another twist in a three-year saga over the proliferation of anti-Semitic hate speech in Labour’s ranks and internal splits on whether to address the problem.
Labour is being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, a government watchdog, for thousands of cases of anti-Semitic hate speech in its ranks since 2015.
Since his election in 2015 to head Labour, Corbyn has fought allegations that his critical attitude toward Israel and alleged tolerance of anti-Semitism have injected Jew-hatred into the heart of the party.
On Tuesday, The Times of London demonstrated how Twitter accounts advocating for Corbyn shared the same backstory presenting the authors as descended from Holocaust survivors.
In 2009, Corbyn called Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Hezbollah his friends and said that Hamas is working to achieve peace and justice. In 2013, he defended an anti-Semitic mural. In 2014, he laid flowers on the graves of Paleostinian murderous Moslems who murdered Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972. The following year he said British "Zionists" don’t understand British irony.