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Anti-Semitism: Labor suspends Jeremy Corbyn

2020-10-29T20:03:05.222Z


The sanction comes after the release of a damning report on his failure to fight this scourge when he was leading the party.


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For five years Jeremy Corbyn led the UK's first opposition party.

Thursday, the Socialist deputy, long adored by part of the British left, was suspended by the authorities of Labor.

This is the publication of the report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the commission charged with enforcing equality and human rights laws, on the role played by Jeremy Corbyn and his team in the handling of anti-Semitic cases within Labor, which led to the benching of the 71-year-old MP, elected number one in Labor in 2015 and re-elected in 2016.

Launched last year, the EHRC investigation found Labor had broken the equality law on three counts.

The report says the party has been guilty of harassment by failing to react as it should to anti-Semitic comments made by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, among others.

The EHRC also identified 23 cases of interference

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Source: lefigaro

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