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Category: Anti Semitism Based Political Attacks
British government plans to adopt an international definition of anti-Semitism to help tackle hatred towards Jewish people.
Police, councils, universities and public bodies can adopt the wording, which was created by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
Donald Trump’s closing campaign ad paints a distinct picture of the way he sees America and the world: powerful men and women in suits, media magnates, financiers and politicians like Hillary Clinton, conspiring to concentrate power in their own hands.
But Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) suggested on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Trump’s “Argument for America” ad plays on an insidious chord that has been a rallying point for politicians for decades: anti-Semitism.
Trade-union leaders in Israel and the US urged the federal German teachers’ labor organization this week to take action, including legal measures, against educators in the city of Oldenburg for their call to impose a full boycott on the Jewish state.
Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Jenny Tonge hosted an event at the House of Lords announcing the launch of the Palestinian Return Centre’s (PRC) initiative to pressure the UK government into acknowledging its role in “almost a century of Palestinian suffering” and the UK’s wider colonial impact on the region last Tuesday.
The controversial meeting in Westminster caused outrage in Israel after video from the event surfaced showing one audience member claiming “If anybody is anti-semitic, it’s the Israelis themselves,” going on to say Jews antagonised Adolf Hitler.
Jeremy Corbyn has helped create a “safe space” for anti-Semites in Britain, a cross-party parliamentary report says in a damning indictment of his leadership.
The findings were made by Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee, which has carried out a six-month investigation into anti-Semitism, in Labour and elsewhere.
In an interview with Channel 4 News, she also questioned why the Holocaust only marked genocides that happened after the Nazis.
When she was asked whether she had considered resigning given the outrage among some Jewish groups, Ms Walker said: “Some other prominent Jewish groups, of which I’m a member of, think a very different thing.
Ms Walker said whoever leaked the footage from a Labour Party anti-Semitism training event “had malicious intent in their mind”.
She also said she was anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic, adding: “I think Zionism is a political ideology, and like any political ideology, some people will be supportive and some people won’t be supportive of it. That’s a very different thing.”
During the meeting Ms Walker said: “I came in here … and I was looking for information and I still haven’t heard a definition of anti-Semitism that I can work with… [shouting from audience] and in terms of Holocaust day wouldn’t it be wonderful if Holocaust day was open to all people who experienced holocaust… [shouting from audience] in practice it’s not actually circulated and advertised as such.”
She later adds that there is a “catch-22 situation” within Labour where those who deny a remark is anti-Semitic are called anti-Semitic themselves.