The EHRC Report: an interim response

The EHRC report demands careful reading and a considered response. Some of it bears out what we and many other Labour Party members have been saying for a long time about the deficiencies of Labour’s disciplinary procedures and how abusive they are to many of those accused of antisemitism.

But to producing an adequate commentary takes time and unlike some organisations we value quality of response over speed of a headline-grabbing soundbite. Our considered response will appear here shortly.

In the meantime, we can certainly say that without the EHRC asking for and examining the evidence on which the Leaked Report was based, its conclusions on who was responsible for any failings cannot be well founded.  And we have also heard that a legal challenge to the Report’s finding of unlawful acts in being seriously considered.

For the moment, we have published a short statement on the unjust suspension of Jeremy Corbyn:

We are appalled that Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended and had the whip withdrawn. He has a proud record of fighting all forms of racism including antisemitism. We call on Labour Party members to protest against this unjustified outrage in the strongest terms and through all channels available to us. This is an attack not just on Jeremy, but on the party membership. Do not leave, organise and fight back.

We also applaud the statement from the Don’t Leave, Organise network, of which JVL is a part, calling on rank and file party members, the labour left and the left unions, “to organise as never before in defence of party democracy and of socialist policies.”

Sign the Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn petition now.

Republished from Jewish Voice for Labour