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Related: About this forumMomentum activists attack Labour councillors over antisemitism definition
Councillors said members from the pro-Jeremy Corbyn Momentum group threatened them for supporting the motion
Hard-left Labour activists shouted down Haringey Labour councillors who supported a motion to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances definition of antisemitism, recognised by the government and now widely used in the public sector.
Councillor Joe Goldberg said members from the pro-Jeremy Corbyn Momentum group threatened him for supporting the motion while other speakers were also shouted down at the meeting on Monday night.
Immediately after the meeting, he wrote on Twitter: Tonight I sat in Full Council threatened by Labour Party members for voting for motion on antisemitism while speakers were shouted down.
A Momentum group on Facebook had earlier encouraged members to attend the north London council meeting to oppose the motion.
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/momentum-activists-attack-labour-councillors-over-antisemitism-definition-1.441935
Video of full meeting. The motion begins @ 2:22:47
https://haringey.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/285841
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:
-Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
-Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
-Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
-Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
-Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
-Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
Examples of the ways in which antisemitism manifests itself with regard to the State of Israel taking into account the overall context could include:
-Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
-Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
-Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
-Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
-Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.
However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.
http://www.antisem.eu/projects/eumc-working-definition-of-antisemitism/