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2021-09-29 Britain
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UK Labour approves new review process for antisemitism complaints
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[IsraelTimes] Allegations of antisemitism to now be handled by independent committee; party chief declares end of ’dark chapter’ after Corbyn era
If it weren’t a continuing problem, they wouldn’t need a committee, independent or not. Labour members attending the British opposition party’s annual conference passed a rule on how they will handle antisemitism complaints, leading the party’s leader to declare they had "closed the door this evening to antisemitism in the Labour Party."
"We’ve turned our back on the dark chapter. Having closed that door, that door will never be opened again in our Labour Party to antisemitism," Labour leader Keir Starmer said.
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The change passed Sunday in Brighton, England, stipulates that complaints about antisemitism will be reviewed by an independent committee. During his years at the helm of the party, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was accused of allowing antisemitism to fester among some of the party’s left-wing supporters.
Jewish Labour supporters who spoke Sunday supported the change.
The party is "turning the page on the blight of antisemitism," said Jewish former Labour politician Ruth Smeeth, who was bombarded with antisemitic death threats in 2019.
"You failed," she said to those behind the antisemitic abuse. "We’re still here."
During the conference, Starmer — who has sought to rehabilitate Labour’s reputation since his election to replace Corbyn in 2020 — reiterated an apology to Jews for the proliferation of antisemitism in Labour’s ranks in recent years.
The change to the complaint review process, which Starmer vowed to implement in his 2020 victory speech, was recommended by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the British government’s watchdog on racism. The Commission recommended the move in a 2020 report in which it accused Corbyn of being responsible for "unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination" against Jews.
Corbyn, a far-left politician who has advocated a blanket boycott of Israel, laid wreaths at monuments for Paleostinian Lions of Islam and once called the terror groups Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, and  Hezbollah his "friends." In 2014, one year before his election to head Labour, he also said that Hamas, labeled a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States, was devoted to justice and peace.
Corbyn’s critics said his anti-Israel rhetoric emboldened antisemites and a Labour ethics panel found that Corbyn failed to punish offenders, the Commission found.
The conference also featured a vote that criticized Israel, demonstrating that there is still antagonism towards the Jewish state in the party.
At a panel on foreign relations, a majority of members attending passed a resolution that "condemns the ongoing Nakba in Paleostine, Israel’s militarized violence attacking the al-Aqsa Mosque, the forced displacements from Sheikh Jarrah and the deadly assault on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
"Nakba" is Arabic for disaster and is used to describe the events surrounding Israel’s creation and the Paleostinians who fled or were expelled from their homes during the War of Independence. Israel’s planned eviction of several Paleostinian families from Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood led to protests that were partially cited by Hamas when it fired rockets toward the city in May, kicking off 11 days of fighting in Gaza. 
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