{"id":369925,"date":"2018-07-18T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-party-rejects-israels-anti-semitism-definition\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:46:10","slug":"presstv-uk-labour-party-rejects-israels-anti-semitism-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-labour-party-rejects-israels-anti-semitism-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK Labour Party rejects Israel&#8217;s anti-Semitism definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK Labour Party has adopted its own code of conduct which permits harsher criticism of Israel while also stating that &#8220;anti-Semitism is racism.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the new Labour code does not fully adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition preferred by the Zionist lobby, which cracks down on those who question Israel\u2019s so-called \u201cright to exist,\u201d or calls it \u201cracist,\u201d or who accuse Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel than to the interests of their own nations.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Palestinian Labour Party leader Corbyn, who is on course to become Britain\u2019s next prime minister, says he doesn&#8217;t want to stifle debate about Israel and Palestine within the party.<\/p>\n<p>Corbyn has been dogged by accusations of being \u201csoft on anti-Semitism\u201d ever since he became Labour leader in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>These accusations against Corbyn and his supporters, such as former London mayor Ken Livingstone, have mainly come from Labour Members of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/18\/568533\/UK-Labour-Party-antiSemitism-Corbyn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Labour Party has adopted its own code of conduct which permits harsher criticism of Israel while also stating that &#8220;anti-Semitism is racism.&#8221; But the new Labour code does not fully adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition preferred by the Zionist lobby, which cracks down on those who question Israel\u2019s so-called \u201cright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369925","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=369925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}