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An Antidote to the EHRC Poison
MIKE CUSHMAN introduces Jewish Voice for Labour’s forensic reply to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's infamous report on Labour's alleged anti-semitism problem
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
THE publication of the EHRC report on “anti-semitism in the Labour Party” was a seismic event in the history of the party. Despite its undoubted political impact, it contributed little to anyone’s understanding of how the party works, how anti-semitism manifests itself in contemporary Britain or how to combat it or any other form of identity-based hatred.
Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) published a series of commentaries on the shortcomings of the report but also promised an in-depth appraisal of it. That appraisal is now published by Verso as a free e-book How the EHRC Got It So Wrong: anti-semitism and the Labour Party.
As Geoffrey Bindman says in his foreword: “Instead of responding by setting up an inquiry into the way the party was handling, or mishandling, complaints, the commission saddled itself with the needless task of finding illegal conduct; not by those who made the offending statements but by the party itself.
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