“JVL should be proscribed, not embraced”
JVL Introduction
We’ve certainly made it big time in the Jewish Chronicle.
We, it appears, are what is wrong with the Forde Report: “Three letters render the Forde Report into the leaking of a Labour document on antisemitism worthless: JVL.
You really couldn’t make it up!
We are reposting the Jewish Chronicle lead this week in all its glory. We will answer the allegations it and others have made about us in due course but for now prefer to allow the JC to speak for itself.
Oh, and the Board of Deputies as well. Shouldn’t really miss them out…
This article was originally published by the Jewish Chronicle on Wed 20 Jul 2022. Read the original here.
The Forde Report distorts the battle against Jew hate
The JC Leader
Three letters render the Forde Report into the leaking of a Labour document on antisemitism worthless: JVL.
Any claim the report might otherwise have to be a serious contribution to the ongoing debate over Labour antisemitism is nullified by the proposal that Jewish Voice for Labour, a group set up by Corbynites solely to push the idea that the party did not have a problem with antisemitism, should now be responsible (along with the Jewish Labour Movement) for training in antisemitism.
JVL should be proscribed, not embraced.
Not that this is all that is wrong with the report. Whilst Mr Forde agrees that “there is nothing in the Leaked Report (or elsewhere in the evidence we have seen) to support the conclusion that the problem of antisemitism in the Party was overstated”, he nonetheless pushes a gross calumny on those who fought antisemitism in the party.
He describes their behaviour as “weaponising” the issue and treats the two sides of the issue as morally equivalent, saying that “…both factions treated it as a factional weapon” with, he writes later, “both ‘sides’ thus weaponising the issue.”
This is a warped rewriting of history. On one side were those who either swam in the sea of antisemitism or denied that such a sea existed. On the other were those campaigning to end this racism. The idea that their behaviour was equally bad is simply grotesque.
This report is a waste of time and effort. In the end, all that matters is how Labour today, under Sir Keir Starmer, deals with the issue.
He has started satisfactorily, but has an enormous amount still to do.
And here is the full statement from Board of Deputies
