has written the following
mesage to Labour members:
The struggle for liberation of all people is never complete and
must always be renewed. As a movement, we educate ourselves and
each other to better stand in solidarity with and unite all those
facing oppression and discrimination.
That's why we are launching education materials for our members
and supporters to help them confront bigotry, wherever it arises.
Over the coming months, the party will produce educational
materials on a number of specific forms of racism and bigotry.
Our first materials are on antisemitism, recognising that
anti-Jewish bigotry has reared its head in our
movement.
Browse our
new antisemitism minisite
Read our
new leaflet on antisemitism
Hatred towards Jewish people is rising in many parts of the
world. Our party is not immune from that poison – and we must
drive it out from our movement.
While other political parties and some of the media exaggerate
and distort the scale of the problem in our party, we must face
up to the unsettling truth that a small number of Labour members
hold antisemitic views and a larger number don't recognise
antisemitic stereotypes and conspiracy theories.
The evidence is clear enough. The worst cases of antisemitism in
our party have included Holocaust denial, crude Jewish-banker
stereotypes, conspiracy theories blaming Israel for 9/11 or every
war on the Rothschild family, and even one member who appeared to
believe that Hitler had been misunderstood.
So please engage with the materials we are producing, which will
be placed on a page on our website, along with other
resources, so our movement can be the strongest anti-racist force
in our country.
I have learned so much, I hope you will too, so that together we
can fight these evils.
