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Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 month ago

If someone being consistent with Labour's values is too divisive to lead Labour, there can't be Labour at all. I disagree with some of his stances, but what this man suffered wasn't internal opposition, it was political assassination.

[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

As an American looking in, Corbyn has always been the face of UK's Labour Party.

Why was he ousted? The article says something about an antisemitism statement, but surely that's not the whole of it.

[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They basically did something similar to what happened to Bernie with the DNC. they did a full court press antisemitism campaign against him, but like many of the charges of antisemitism in the US right now, it was largely based on criticism of Israeli policy AFAIK.

Edit: to clarify—they ousted him because labor was looking ascendant, and the more centrist and corporatist elements of labor could not stomach the idea of actually having a PM that wanted to do left wing things that aligned with the theoretical purpose of the labor party, so they took him out by getting enough articles published in the famously above-board uk media to force him from leadership.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just to illustrate the nature of that campaign, at one point and in order to accuse Corbyn of being anti-semitic, they said that he had sat on a panel in a conference where one of the members of the same panel compared the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis, "hence" (by association) Corbyn was an anti-semite.

The thing is, said member of the panel who compared the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis was a Jewish Holocaust Survivor.

If such words made Corbyn an anti-semite by association then, having said such words, said panel member would even more so have to be an anti-semite.

In other words, the anti-Corbyn campaign was so rabid ragingly extremist and sleazy that they were accused a Jewish Holocaus Survivor of being an anti-semite in order to try to taint Corbyn by association.

PS: And, by the way, this very newspaper - The Guardian - was an active participant in that campaign and published this slander, amongst others.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup, this pretty much sums it up.

To add, the vast majority of the antisemitism complaints involved other Labour ministers liking and posting anti-Israel Tweets that were consider too extreme. These ranged from ones that "crossed the line" of criticism against Israeli policy and the Israel lobby in the UK (some of which you can read in the report on pages 27-30) to ones that allegedly blamed Jewish members of the Labour party for making false complaints, or even tried to dimish the Holocaust (although I can't find the exact details of those).

Either way, none of the complaints involved Corbyn himself but his reputation was tarnished and it made him an easy target for his opponents.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

By "antisemitism" they mean not licking Israeli arse while they keep murdering Palestinians.

[-] Apollo42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

He was ousted because capitalists are shit scared of socialists getting anywhere near the levers of power.

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