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Pressure on UK Labor Party leader as antisemitism row continues
The Independent: Labour has denied that thousands of members quitting the party is a response Jeremy Corbyn's response to the Salisbury nerve agent attack and his handling of antisemitism in the party.
A leaked report suggests 17,000 people have left the party since the start of the year - amounting to three per cent of the total membership.
Hundreds have resigned over the crisis engulfing the party and many more have not renewed their direct debits, according to internal figures seen by The Times.
However, Labour sources insisted the drop was not related to Mr Corbyn's recent controversies. The party gives members six months to pay membership arrears, meaning the majority of those whose subscriptions lapsed in the last few months actually stopped paying fees last year.
They said the leaked data does not include last week, when the latest row about antisemitism in Labour erupted, and is in keeping with other equivalent periods.
A spokesperson said: "Labour's membership is well over half a million and in fine health. The latest data has been misrepresented in this story.”
Labour's membership reached a peak of 570,000 after the general election but now appears to be falling.
According to the leaked report, no region in England reported a rise in party members since the start of 2018. London lost 3,500 members in the last three months, and the North West reported a fall of 2,000.
Meanwhile the Corbyn-supporting campaign group Momentum has claimed that it added 600 members in the past week.
The latest row erupted after it emerged Mr Corbyn had previously objected to the removal of an east London mural that depicted wealthy Jews playing Monopoly on the backs of workers.
Facing mounting criticism over his response, the Labour leader admitted there were "pockets" of antisemitism in the party and apologised for the "pain and hurt" caused to Jewish people >>>
Corbyn is another dangerous demagogue (on the payroll of Press TV) who admires Venezuelan socialism (whose hyperinflation rate is about to hit 13000pct). Britain is so fucked.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/why-my-generation-is-indifferent-to-anti-semitism/
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Why my generation is indifferent to anti-Semitism
For young Labour supporters, Zionism is a synonym for white supremacy and western colonialism
......Part of the problem is that millennials — especially millennial socialists — find self-reflection very hard. We tweet and post constantly in response to our emotions. It’s almost painful for net-natives to pause for thought before doing so. It’s this inability to reflect that allows my Corbynite friends to ignore and even defend the most egregious of sins committed in the name of socialism. At university, I met a young Corbynite who wanted to rename the Socialist Society ‘-Jezbollah’. It never crossed his mind that this was hugely offensive.
Why would it? St Jeremy attends rallies that include Hezbollah flags and offers words of solidarity to anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. This his fans accept as reasonable behaviour. Nice guy or not, he has turned terrorists into freedom fighters in the eyes of the young and hate preachers into outspoken activists.
Corbyn’s apology spoke of the ‘pockets’ where anti-Semitism exists — but the problem is the party as a whole. Time and time again, Jewish Labour members are threatened and abused at local meetings, conferences or online, while the ‘anti-racists’ turn away in wilful ignorance. To them, Jews are simply not a minority worth caring about. And as Jewish protestors demonstrate in Parliament Square to declare ‘enough is enough’, it is likely that young Corbynites will continue to ask: ‘So what?’