Defeating Labour’s manufactured anti-Semitism crisis

‘Earlier this month, the UK Labour Party came under attack in the press after its leader nominated Shami Chakrabarti, a civil liberties activist, for a seat in the House of Lords.
In June, Chakrabarti published the report of her inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in the party.
The inquiry was set up by party leader Jeremy Corbyn two months earlier, as a way of dealing with allegations of anti-Semitism that had dogged the party since Corbyn was elected as leader in September 2015.
But as The Electronic Intifada’s reporting exposed at the time, the “anti-Semitism crisis” was a media fabrication.’
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