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Behind the Aegis

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Thu Jun 27, 2019, 03:12 PM Jun 2019

(Jewish Group) Huda Elmi, Labour, called for EHRC to be 'abolished' over antisemitism investigation

Huda Elmi, Labour NEC panelist who helped reinstate Chris Williamson, called for EHRC to be 'abolished' when it announced Labour antisemitism investigation

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GREOUP! RESPECT!!)

A Labour party panel’s decision to readmit Chris Williamson despite his record of supporting antisemites has been further questioned after the discovery of highly controversial comments made by one of the panellists.

Huda Elmi was part of the three-person panel from Labour’s National Executive Committee which decided on Wednesday to let the Derby North MP off with a warning, rejecting a recommendation by party officials to refer him to the next stage of Labour's disciplinary process.

Ms Elmi, who was elected to the party’s NEC as part of the far-left “JC [Jeremy Corbyn] 9” slate last year, called for the Equality and Human Rights Commission to be shut down on the day it announced that its preliminary investigation of antisemitism in Labour.

Hours after the EHRC said, regarding antisemitism, that it believed “the Labour Party may have unlawfully discriminated against people because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs”, Ms Elmi described the anti-racism watchdog as “a failed experiment…we need to abolish it.”

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(Jewish Group) Huda Elmi, Labour, called for EHRC to be 'abolished' over antisemitism investigation (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2019 OP
Labour is an antisemitic party now. nycbos Jun 2019 #1
Labour has handled this pretty dreadfully. T_i_B Jun 2019 #2

T_i_B

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2. Labour has handled this pretty dreadfully.
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:30 PM
Jun 2019

Chris Williamson's deselection campaigning has directly contributed to a number of MP's (including my local MP) splitting from Labour. It's also left a legacy of infighting that has been a major contributing factor in many of Labour's losses of late.

To reinstate Williamson then re-suspend him again a couple of days after a barrage of objections later makes Labour look pretty terrible. Incompetent at best, preoccupied with internal factional nonsense (Williamson's specialty) at worst.

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