![]() Sir Alan Sugar, who left the party in 2015 over its business policy, on Sunday, responded to a request from Labour shadow chancellor John MacDonnell by deleting a tweet he had shared that he said had been “doing the rounds,” showing Corbyn seated next to Adolf Hitler. Sir Alan Sugar at the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards BAFTA in London, May 12, 2013. And yet it has failed to expel many of those who have engaged in the grossest derogatory fantasies about Jewish/Zionist conspiracies - and Jewish characterizations and accusations which conjure up the very kind of anti-Semitic attacks that led to such unbearable consequences for innocent millions in the past.” I consider that it has supported and endorsed the most blatant acts of anti-Semitism. I have watched with dismay and foreboding the manner in which the leadership has, in my view, over the last two years, conducted itself. Garrard said “As one of the former leading political and financial supporters of the Labour party, of which I was a member for so many decades, I no longer feel any affinity with, or connection to, what it seems to have become. Garrard, a retired property developer, had given Labour around £1.5m ($2.1 million) under three different leaders since 2003. The political party he once supported “no longer exists,” said Garrard, according to The Guardian. Over the weekend, Sir David Garrard, a prominent Jewish donor to Labour, announced he would no longer have anything to do with the party because of the anti-Semitism scandals. Martin is the latest in a string of senior current and former Labour Party members to speak out against what they see as the failure to act against anti-Semitism within the party’s ranks. Having lost his uncle and almost losing his father during World War II, he also wanted to ensure that people remembered the sacrifices that generation had made against anti-Semitism and fascism, he added. “And if Labour is seen as anti-Semitic, then that is going to be at risk.”īritain’s opposition Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves a Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in central London, on March 12, 2018. He added, “The only way that the Labour Party can improve the quality of life for men and women, and children is if they are elected to public office and they have a parliamentary majority,” he said. We are a democratic party and we thrive on decency.'” ![]() He went on: “I think the time has come when we’ve got to get a one-day conference - that conference can be done in a regional basis, or in a national basis - but we need the membership to come together and say, ‘In no circumstances are we anti-Semitic. “I don’t want anyone ever coming back to me and saying, ‘Michael, you said nothing about anti-Semitism.’” “You recall the saying, ‘Evil happens when good men do nothing.’ I have not been attending parliament because I’m on sick leave, but if I had been there on Monday last week, I would have joined the protest,” he said. Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain’s opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London, on March 26, 2018. His decision to speak out publicly stemmed from his inability to attend last Monday’s 1,500-strong Jewish community protest outside Parliament because of health issues, he said. “If you ran a restaurant, and it was dirty and there were cockroaches, you wouldn’t get away with saying ‘The restaurant down the road is dirty and has cockroaches too.’ You would be expected to sort out the problem,” Martin said. Michael Martin told The Guardian newspaper that he was “appalled” by the state of affairs, that he believed the party had a genuine problem with anti-Semitism, and that he disagreed with those who said it was only being used as a tool to dislodge the party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn. It’s important that the Labour Party makes it clear that these sentiments are completely against everything that we stand for as a country and everything that we pride ourselves on as a community.”Īs the issue of anti-Semitism within Labour returned to the headlines on Sunday, a former speaker of the House of Commons called for a special party conference to discuss the issue, warning that it could cost the party the next election. People “look for things or causes or issues upon which they can attach blame. “The difficulty is that there is a lot of popular anger at the state of things all over Western politics today,” he said. The strength of the reaction to what has happened in the Labour Party shows that.” The former prime minister, who is also a former envoy of the Middle East peace quartet, stressed that “I don’t believe the broader British public is anti-Semitic at all.
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