(Jewish Group) Anas Sarwar: Labour must adopt in full IHRA antisemitism definition

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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Jeremy Corbyn has come under pressure from a senior Scottish Labour figure to adopt in full the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.

Anas Sarwar, a former deputy leader of the Scottish party, said Labour should adopt the full IHRA definition “without delay and caveats” as Corbyn began his four-day visit to Scotland.

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Describing himself as a critic of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, Sarwar told the Daily Record the controversy had not been handled well by Corbyn’s team. It had been a “rather unfortunate and sad episode for the Labour party”, he said. Sarwar stood last year against a Corbynite candidate, Richard Leonard, to be Scottish Labour leader but lost.

“The Jewish community should rightfully be taking the lead on defining what antisemitism is. It is for the Jewish community to lead and shape what the definition of antisemitism is because they are the ones who experience it,” he said. “I think the Labour party, without delay, should adopt the the IHRA definition of antisemitism immediately and without delay and without caveats.”

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Imagine that, an oppressed group being "allowed" to define the bigotry against them and not having it 'splained to them how their definition isn't what the majority thinks it should be!

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1. Anas Sarwar has been sacked by Scottish Labour.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/04/scottish-labour-leader-sacks-two-msps-in-purge-reshuffle