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The Labour Party may soon make it easier to expel members accused of anti-Semitism as a growing number of MPs and activists warn action is needed to address hostility among its membership towards Jewish people. <\/p>\n
Local party branches are set to vote on proposed rule changes in the coming weeks, with a view to implementing them after the party\u2019s national conference this autumn.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Newmark, a campaigner with the Jewish Labour Movement, said the party\u2019s current rules are out of step with its rhetoric to clamp down on anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s talking about zero tolerance of anti-Semitism, but it has become apparent, because of a spate of incidents over the past couple of months, that the rules and processes of the party don\u2019t provide adequate provision to deal with it,\u201d<\/em> he told the BBC.<\/p>\n Have issued proposed rule change to Brent Central CLP to toughen up party rules on Antisemitism, Islamaphobia and racism.<\/p>\n \u2014 Cllr Sam Stopp (@CllrStopp) April 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n The recent calls for action come after Labour councilor Aysegul Gurbuz, 20, was suspended earlier this week for anti-Semitic tweets. The party is also investigating allegations of anti-Semitism at the Oxford University Labour club after its co-chairman Alex Chalmers resigned, claiming that a large proportion of members \u201chave some kind of problem with Jews.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Critics are concerned the Labour leadership isn\u2019t taking a tough enough stance against anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been warned by a wealthy backer that big Jewish donors are refraining from making donations to Labour because of what they see as \u201cinaction\u201d<\/em> and \u201capathy\u201d<\/em> in combatting the rising tide of anti-Semitism among party members.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Ban on Israel boycotts contradicts UK Foreign Office rules \u2013 Labour MP<\/a><\/p>\n Writing in the Daily Mail, Michael Foster, whose family donated more than \u00a3400,000 ($570,000) in the 2015 General Election, said \u201cJeremy Corbyn continues to ignore the problem \u2013 and that shocks me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Referring to Corbyn\u2019s denial last month of an anti-Semitism \u201ccrisis,\u201d<\/em> Foster said: \u201cHe makes no attempt at all to put at ease a Jewish community in Britain that for more than 100 years has supported Labour spiritually, politically and financially.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n MP Wes Streeting warned that Corbyn\u2019s remarks make the party look dismissive towards the allegations of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have now got a problem where too many of our Jewish members and people out there in the country think the Labour Party is apathetic to anti-Semitism, and it isn\u2019t a place for Jewish members, and I think we have got to make sure that this party, with its historic commitment to tackling all types of prejudice, including anti-Semitism, is a place for Jewish people,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Ilford North MP told the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Labour Party may soon make it easier to expel members accused of anti-Semitism as a growing number of MPs and activists warn action is needed to address hostility among its membership towards Jewish people. Local party branches are set to vote on proposed rule changes in the coming weeks, with a view to implementing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
Last month, Vicki Kirby, a former Labour parliamentary candidate, was suspended for a second time over tweets in which she claimed that Hitler might be a \u201cZionist God\u201d<\/em> and referred to Jews as having \u201cbig noses.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n