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Corbyn seeks readmittance to Labour Party as antisemitism witch-hunt escalates
Former party leader Jeremy Corbyn has begun legal proceedings seeking to force current leader Sir Keir Starmer to allow him to sit again as a Labour Party MP. Starmer withdrew the Labour whip from Corbyn last November after he was briefly suspended from the party for making a criticism of the politically motivated Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report into antisemitism in the Labour Party.
Corbyn’s lawyer Christopher Jacobs argued in court Monday that his client’s removal from the Parliamentary Labour Party was a “fundamental breach of contract” that broke a “settled agreement” reached between Corbyn and the Labour leadership.
Stephen Bush meeting with youth group representatives.
The chair of the Board of Deputies’ Commission on Racial Inclusivity in the Jewish community, has spoken to hundreds of participants at a packed Limmud Festival session about his work investigating discrimination against black Jews, Jews of colour and Mizrachi, Sephardi and Yemenite Jews in the community.
With the first draft of his forthcoming report written, Stephen Bush, took the opportunity to give Limmud participants a sneak preview of some of the testimony – all anonymised for this presentation – that he has received.
Bush recounted the testimony of one mixed-race Jewish girl who was stopped and searched every time she attended her synagogue, unless she was with her mother, who is white. One black Jewish man told the commission he dreads going into kosher shops because of their attitude towards him. And Mizrachi and Sephardi witnesses told the commission about how their culture and customs were frequently excluded