Fiona Sharpe, spokesman for Labour Against Antisemitism,
said:
“The CST report, “Antisemitic Incidents Report 2019”
(published today) is a welcome analysis that shows the extent to
which left wing antisemitism is now driving the majority of
reported anti-Jewish racist incidents in the UK. The figures are
especially damning for the , as 45% of incidents – nearly
one in two - where the motive was recorded by the CST were Labour
Party-related. Moreover anti-Zionist incidents, characteristic of
broader left wing antisemitism, make up a further 25% of motive
recorded incidents.
It is worth noting that these figures represent only
incidents reported to the CST and are
“indicative”1rather than absolute, due to the way
the CST sometimes collates ongoing antisemitic campaigns as
single incidents. Furthermore, the CST does not proactively
investigate antisemitism on social media unlike our own team of
researchers, who catalogue antisemitism within sometimes private
social media spaces that the promoters believe are
safe.
It is our belief that the true scale of left wing
antisemitism in the UK is even wider and more deeply embedded
than the report suggests. We highly anticipate the publication of
the Equalities and Human Rights Commission report into
institutional racism in the and expect that further
evidence will be revealed then.”
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