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Steve Cooke

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19 days

I hadn't heard of Lord Alli until the recent donations controversy. But looking into his history - Labour peer since 1998 so not some Johnny-come-lately political opportunist, LGBT rights campaigner, HIV research patron, university chancellor - I'm wondering what's not to like?

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@centerviewnews Meghan blocks immortality?

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@jodymcintyremp Perhaps you could suggest they get in touch with their MP. I'm sure she will be willing to help.

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@thecarolemalone Pretty sure he was branding the non-decent, law breaking people as “far right thugs”, Carole. Thanks for making clear who you identify with, though.

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@leo_hutz That doesn’t sound like a real conversation. Most likely an AI fake. But then you knew that when you posted it, didn’t you?

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6 years

@ChrisCorney1 @JournoStephen @stephenpollard It's not even a profession that Corbyn is criticising there. It's an economic system.

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1 year

Roger Waters claims a British MP who raised concerns about antisemitism in his shows is following orders from his "masters in the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv". If you're still denying Waters is antisemitic after this, well, f*** you, it's because you are an antisemite too.

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There was much more foul abuse of the Labour MP Christian Wakeford. Here’s why: “You are making s**t up because you’ve been told to by your masters in the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv. Because this hate is being organised from Israel.” More cheers. 4/5

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@GCraughwell Do you know what happened during WW2?

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@Gabriel_Pogrund @patrickkmaguire I believe it’s customary to use some sort of venue when holding a meeting.

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@andreajenkyns @cawleym1 @metpoliceuk To see if you were as daft as everyone says.

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@JakeHepple1 Let’s hope his wife is able to find a new partner who isn’t a far-right thug and would be a more responsible role model for the children.

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4 months

George Galloway has threatened to sue @HopeNotHate over a flyer distributed in #Rochdale . Leaving aside the claim about supporting dictators, is it true that “His Workers Party is full of antisemites, racists and conspiracy theorists”? Let’s look at its election candidates. 1/20

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6 months

@michaelwhite Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel, not the prime minister of British Jews.

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4 months

It’s disgraceful how Jeremy Corbyn was treated by Labour over antisemitism. And to prove that we will organise an election campaign rally with a guest speaker who repeatedly claims that Israel steals Palestinian bodies to harvest their organs.

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@QueenMab87 It's a good start.

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@MuhammadSmiry You have previously claimed that “The Zionists themselves manufactured the Holocaust”.

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3 months

@BellaWallerstei Parents who send their children to state schools also work hard.

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6 months

I see that Calder Valley Palestine Solidarity Campaign are being "anti-Zionist" but not antisemitic again.

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8 months

I'm guessing North Yorkshire councillor Pat Marsh has strayed from official @LibDems policy when she says Jews are "evil", "vile", "horrendous", "a disgrace to the world" and claims "Israel owns the USA". It looks like #antisemitism to me. Perhaps the @YandHLibDems could advise?

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1 year

@Kohima_Sean What’s the problem?

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8 years

Anna Soubry complains about people being personal in politics only minutes after calling John McDonnell "a nasty piece of work". #bbcqt

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11 months

@RachelRileyRR We're cancelling the domestic violence exhibition because some men might be upset about it.

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4 months

@Resist_05 It’s a fake quote. Begin never said or wrote those words. But you knew that already, didn’t you?

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6 years

I am aghast to report that an emergency motion on the #PittsburghSynagogue attack which I took to my Labour Party branch meeting last night was voted down, with the leader of Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council and...

Steve Cooke

I am aghast to report that an emergency motion on the #PittsburghSynagogue attack which I took to my Labour Party branch meeting last night was voted down, with the leader of Stockton-on-Tees...

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3 years

I'm saddened to learn that Dr Pete Newbon has died. He was a committed campaigner against antisemitism, a rising star in academia and a much-loved husband and father. May his memory be a blessing.

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4 months

@TiceRichard Laurence Fox is an actor too, but no one doubts the sincerity of his bigotry.

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3 months

@josiahmortimer I’m not convinced that Reform UK’s deputy leader Ben Habib is a real person.

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11 months

@iamjourjean In what sense is the Auschwitz Museum “endorsing a genocide”?

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2 months

@ConHome Fuck, no.

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1 year

Ken Loach, the man who directed a theatrical production about the Holocaust in which Jews were the baddies.

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Steve Cooke

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4 months

Laurence Fox is an actor too, but no one doubts the sincerity of his bigotry.

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@Nigel_Farage

4 months

Andrew Parker was the man that made the astonishing racist comments that have given us so much negative coverage. We now learn that he is an actor by profession. His own website says he is ‘well spoken’ but from the moment he arrived in Clacton he was doing what he calls

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THREAD: George Galloway really has excelled himself this time. His @WorkersPartyGB have selected a Nazi-grade antisemite to fight #GE2024 in #PoplarAndLimehouse . Introducing Kamran Khan ... 1/6

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8 months

@BenMFreeman It’s hard to believe this was done innocently.

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1 year

@instamfordhill She should redo that self-assessment as she is definitely racist and definitely antisemitic.

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7 months

@HesterObe One does not simply apologise for comments as blatantly racist, hateful and violent as that.

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Steve Cooke

@Steve_Cooke

6 years

A great thing about social media is how it enables us to reach out and help people we've never even met. Jeff Bowler of Mansfield CLP spent many fruitless months trying to find "genuine antisemitism" in the Labour Party, so I was pleased to be able to assist him in his quest. /1

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1 year

I usually criticise specific statements and behaviours as antisemitic rather than label individuals as such. Just to be clear, though, if you still defend David Miller's politics or have the #ItWasAScam slogan in your bio, then you are an antisemite. Hope that helps.

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Steve Cooke

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3 years

Sweet, poor innocent Barbara Frances Turner, formerly of Kettering CLP. Thrown out of the Labour Party when she'd never say anything antisemitic. Never.

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Steve Cooke

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5 years

Imagine thinking a 2012 pic of you shaking a Jewish person's hand proves you're not antisemitic but that 2014 tweets where you expressed regret the Nazis didn't get to complete the Holocaust are irrelevant. Meet Daniel France of Worthing West CLP. He claims to be an antiracist.

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1 year

@Bren4Bassetlaw You're not coming out of this very well, Brendan.

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4 months

@AndrewmitchMP It’s nice that he rates you personally but not really a good reason to support the policy programme you’re seeking to implement.

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4 months

Yas Iqbal is the @WorkersPartyGB election candidate in the Welsh constituency of Blaenau Gwent & Rhymney. This self-described “people’s champion” says he is “full of life and love for everyone and hatred for NONE”. Except for Jews. Mr Iqbal really doesn’t like Jews. THREAD 1/3

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Steve Cooke

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6 years

@TeachESL @dandoll What does that have to do with the motion I proposed? Absolutely nothing.

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9 months

So, a number of Labour ex-members who had joined the Green Party are now quitting it because a little-known Green criticised Jeremy Corbyn over the antisemitism issue FOUR years ago and their deputy leader said he enjoyed David Baddiel’s book in 2021. These people are pathetic.

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Steve Cooke

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7 months

@NatashaC Well, Frank Hester is lying and so is the Tory spokesperson, who is doubling down on the racism there.

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3 months

Jake Wheatley, organising a “peaceful march” in Middlesbrough this Sunday, says “If fighting back, burning police cars and running riot is what gets the governments attention to take action then so be it”. Jake used to be an EDL member. #Fascism #Racism #Islamophobia @hopenothate

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2 months

Halima Khan, the so-called whistleblower promoted by Al Jazeera and antisemitism denialists, has lost her Employment Tribunal case against @UKLabour . She claimed the party unfairly dismissed and racially discriminated against her. The ET found it didn’t.

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2 years

Elon Musk has reinstated the Twitter account of Holocaust denier and antisemitic conspiracy theorist David Icke.

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6 months

Exciting times for Galloway's @WorkersPartyGB with a raft of candidates announced for the 2024 general election. These include @Carla_Parrish in Stoke North promising to tackle "Muz" birthrates, "Pakistani paedos", "Zionist puppets" & "Rothschild globalists". What could go wrong?

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8 days

@ronrule @doodlestein What an extraordinarily hostile response to an entirely reasonable and measured comment on your original post.

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5 months

Well, that’s shown me up. How could I have imagined that @WorkersPartyGB general election candidate Kamran Khan would engage in antisemitic discourse?

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5 months

@faizashaheen That's your decision, but I think it's the wrong call. You won't win or even come close to winning.

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11 days

Thank goodness Emma Dent Coad is no longer in parliament.

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Steve Cooke

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3 years

On this day that Labour Against the Witchhunt supporters have started receiving notices of automatic exclusion from the Labour Party, I offer solidarity to the Jewish Labour members and others that these wreckers labelled as liars because they called out antisemitism in the party

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9 months

@CentralCee123_ @BucksCouncil @OxfordHealthNHS @CllrCarlJackson They might not be able to answer why the councillor is a homophobe, but they ought to explain why a homophobe is one of their councillors.

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Steve Cooke

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3 months

Just to be clear, if you support far-right thugs like Tommy Robinson, then you are a far-right thug like Tommy Robinson. #Sunderland #Hartlepool #Southport #Middlesbrough

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4 months

@SholaMos1 First off, I didn't use the term "blood libel" in that post. Secondly, whether or not Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is separate from the allegation that it is "harvesting organs from Palestinian children". In the 1990s, organic tissue was taken without relatives'

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1 year

@daltonian99 @BellaWallerstei Such as making it easier for Tory governments to violate human rights.

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1 year

It's likely that Rachel Reeves doesn't know the case against Ken Loach in detail but trusts the judgement of those who did investigate it. It seems much worse to me that people who do know exactly what Loach has said still deny he has ever made any antisemitic statements.

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3 years

Cllr Hedley McCarthy, a former leader of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, has quit the Labour Party. He blames Keir Starmer but doesn't mention that he was being investigated over a series of antisemitic comments he published on social media. /1

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5 months

How could I have imagined this Workers Party supporter might be antisemitic? I take it all back.

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1 year

@PhilipJCollins1 Why the hell would you say that?

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7 years

BREAKING: Conservative leader Theresa May spent Sunday evening with Christians who share her Tory politics. Why isn't she meeting with socialists instead? #Jewdas

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1 year

Not being Jewish, I'm not a victim of the cartoon's antisemitic imagery and forgiveness is not mine to offer. But imagine how much better our political discourse could have been now if others on the left who offended had reflected and responded in the way Martin Rowson has here.

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1 year

I've appeared neither in @guardian nor on this foul forum for nearly 3 months now. Here I explain why. Keeping clear of Mush's "X" 4 now. Bite the air in Britain and you can taste the prejudices that haunt us. I’m sorry I became part of it | Martin Rowson

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5 months

Just as promised.

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Steve Cooke

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6 years

Has anyone else noticed how complaints about antisemitism in the Labour Party just happen to coincide ... with incidents of antisemitism in the Labour Party? It's uncanny.

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5 months

What to do if someone believes Jews are plotting with Freemasons, Satanists and paedophiles to take power and establish a New World Order? Suggest they team up with Galloway & Williamson and stand for parliament! Meet Julie Lowe, the @WorkersPartyGB candidate in Chesterfield. 1/2

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4 months

WPB's #Chesterfield candidate Julie Lowe claims Jews engage in child sacrifice & plot with Freemasons, Satanists & paedophiles to take power & establish a New World Order. She disputes that 6m Jews were murdered in the Holocaust & reckons the Rothschilds bombed the Titanic. 2/20

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@gavreilly What an embarrassment Higgins is.

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1 year

David Miller has embarrassed some of the Labour Against the Witchhunt crowd by saying what they believe more explicitly than they wanted it saying. #antisemitism

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11 months

Jon Lansman is right. Momentum founder says leftwingers ‘in denial’ about pro-Palestinian slogans

Momentum founder says leftwingers ‘in denial’ about pro-Palestinian slogans

Jon Lansman, a key figure behind the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, says he has come to feel alienated by pro-Palestinian campaign

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7 months

@RedRosa91940184 What an extraordinary statement. You are angry about Israel’s military actions. Fine, criticise that. But you are going much further here and using antisemitic rhetoric.

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@BarristerSecret Even better, don’t commit the crime in the first place.

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7 months

Leearna Oliffe was the audience member who clashed with Paul Mason at a meeting last night. She describes Joe Powell, Labour's candidate for Kensington & Bayswater, as a "Zionist agent" and has previous form for promoting antisemitic narratives.

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I've now seen a transcript of last night's Kilburn meeting - I won't link to it as it libels me - however the precise words the audience member used were these, and they're just as unacceptable... to say that many people in Labour are "supported and funded by Israel" and that

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4 months

@miffythegamer The issue is not that sportswomen have posed in erotic lingerie but that it has been done, apparently with official support, to promote female participation in sport.

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Steve Cooke

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3 years

Show me evidence of Labour Against the Witchhunt being apologists for antisemitism, says Ben Sellers of Red Labour. I reply with evidence of LAW leaders doing exactly that and even opposing Holocaust deniers being reported to Labour HQ. Sellers blocks me and deletes the evidence.

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11 months

@RussInCheshire Nazi comparisons are not helpful. It's possible to criticise and condemn this government's policies without resorting to such hyperbole.

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10 days

@PunamRaneFG Presumably, you made those comments because you believed them to be true as it wasn't just a terminological mix-up. It's not the sort of belief one simply abandons overnight when criticised. You need to show understanding of why it was wrong and how you will re-educate yourself.

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1 year

@AllanSJMcLeod @The_TUC Oh, so cynical.

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1 year

Brilliant speech by Angela. Labour will make Britain work for working people once again. @AngelaRayner

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Chris Williamson’s pants are on fire again. He says he was “never accused of antisemitism by [Labour] party bureaucrats”. In fact, he was accused, and found guilty, of engaging in conduct that involved antisemitic sentiments, stereotypes and actions. To quote the EHRC’s 2020

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@OzKaterji Pager delivery agent.

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Let's see if I've understood this. Livingstone and Bromley dropping their legal action against the EHRC proves that the EHRC's antisemitism report was a scam, that the 2017 general election was stolen from Labour and that Hitler supported Zionism until he went mad. Is that right?

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Bigot leader @SimonMaginn declines @DavidHirsh ’s offer to send him a free copy of his book Contemporary Left Antisemitism so that he can read the explanations he claimed it lacked, despite not having read it.

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Steve Cooke

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2 years

Improved due diligence checks picked up multiple antisemitic posts by Shakeel Hussain and halted his application to be a Labour candidate in this year’s @StocktonCouncil election. So it surprised me to see him standing for the Tories in Ropner ward. Didn’t they ask why he’d left?

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6 years

"Has any member of the Labour Party ever met a racist [in their] own CLP?", asks Michael Smith on Facebook. He certainly hasn't encountered any in his CLP, Milton Keynes North. /1

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Steve Cooke

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6 years

Derek Hatton made a good point on #C4news there. If Frank Field resigns and fights a by-election in #Birkenhead , he will have to campaign on his own. If Labour MPs who've spoken in support of him did that during the by-election they would face automatic expulsion from the party.

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1 year

@RealFairbrass You’re disgusting.

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8 years

I trust that, having stated that thousands of @UKLabour members are Nazis, Michael Foster will now be suspended. @IainMcNicol

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4 years

Left antisemites are putting the band back together.

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2 years

I never imagined I would encounter a general election candidate for the Trade Union & Socialist Coalition (TUSC) who promotes Holocaust denier David Irving, claims that Jews declared war on Germany in 1933 and that Germans were the victims of a genocide. Introducing Joe Whyte ...

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Steve Cooke

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2 years

I’ve reported John Erskine of Rother Valley CLP to Labour HQ. As well as declaring a bereaved Palestinian child to be “better off without a mother who was a terrorist and an antisemite”, he is responsible for a series of racist, Islamophobic, ableist, ageist and abusive tweets.

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3 years

Here's the co-chair of Labour Against the Witchhunt - one of the groups that could be proscribed by the NEC - arguing that it's wrong to report Holocaust deniers to the party.

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Steve Cooke

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2 months

Antisemitism is not the antidote to Islamophobia. Nor vice versa.

Yonatan יונתן #AdoptIHRA

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This is Anas Al-Tikriti, anti-zionist antisemite, speaking today in Harrow, London, telling the crowd that, essentially, Tommy Robinson is being financed by "The Zionists"

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It's not surprising that many of the people who posed as leftwing while promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories in the Labour Party are now acting as apologists for the acknowledged global leader of the far-right, Vladimir Putin. #IStandWithUkraine ️

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2 years

As #Forde said, Milne seems to have been selectively quoted in a misleading way and Westerman’s recollection may be unreliable. However, the evidence that the Labour Party had a serious problem with antisemitism in its ranks does not depend on the #Panorama film. #LabourFiles

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Steve Cooke

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10 months

@Lowkey0nline The "imaginative" part is on you. Nowhere in Stephen Fry's alternative Christmas message did he claim that opponents of Israel's actions were "motivated by racism". The full transcript of the broadcast is available here:

Stephen Fry to Deliver C4 Alternative Christmas Message

Stephen Fry will deliver the 2023 Alternative Christmas Message with an impassioned plea for us all to recognise and call out antisemitism for the racism it is.Moved to speak following the alarming

beyondthejoke.co.uk

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Steve Cooke

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1 year

@WalkerHenrySmi1 @docholliday241 @MarinaPurkiss What a ridiculous comparison. The people arrested were not under suspicion of terrorism.

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Steve Cooke

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10 months

If Stephen Fry used the C4 Alt-Xmas message to talk about homophobia, mass surveillance, AI or making school dinners more nutritious - all topics addressed previously - no one would be bothered. But he talks about antisemitism and there’s outrage from the ‘antizionist’ left.

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@yanisvaroufakis "A politician who refuses to actively oppose war crimes is not fit to lead the Labour Party" but one who refuses to acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organisation is apparently perfect for the job.

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