The inquiry, led by Sami Chakrabarti, former director of the Liberty rights group, recommended that Labour politicians resist the use of metaphors involving the words \u201cHitler, Nazi, and Holocaust,\u201d<\/em> particularly in debates about Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Chakrabarti warned that, although the party is not \u201coverrun with anti-Semitism\u2026 An occasionally toxic atmosphere is in danger of shutting down free speech within the Party rather than facilitating it, and is understandably utilized by its opponents.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The report<\/a>\u00a0advised against imposing lifetime bans on Labour members accused of anti-Semitism or racism, while recommending \u201cprocedural rule changes\u201d<\/em> to the party\u2019s disciplinary process.<\/p>\n The recommendations come after a number of high profile Labour politicians, including former London mayor and Jeremy Corbyn ally Ken Livingstone and Bradford MP Naz Shah, were suspended for making alleged anti-Semitic remarks.<\/p>\n Shah was suspended after Facebook posts emerged in which she suggested Israel should be moved to the United States, and Livingstone was suspended, while trying to defend Shah, for claiming that Hitler had supported Zionism.<\/p>\n Speaking at the announcement of the report\u2019s publication on Thursday, Jeremy Corbyn raised eyebrows when he appeared to compare the so-called Islamic State group (ISIS\/ISIL) to Israel. \u201cOur Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic States or organizations,\u201d<\/em> the Labour leader said.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Corbyn dismissed the allegations, telling the Independent: \u201cHe is explicitly stating that people should not be held responsible for the actions of states or organizations around the world on the basis of religion or ethnicity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n At the inquiry\u2019s launch in April, Corbyn said, \u201cWe must also be vigilant against subtle and insidious manifestations of this nasty ancient hatred and to avoid slipping into the traps by accident or intent.\u201d<\/em><\/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":" An internal report on the validity of allegations of anti-Semitism and other forms of racism within the Labour party has found evidence of an \u201coccasionally toxic atmosphere\u201d and condemns \u201cignorant attitudes\u201d within its ranks. The inquiry, led by Sami Chakrabarti, former director of the Liberty rights group, recommended that Labour politicians resist the use of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253057","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\/253057","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=253057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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