
Originally Posted by
jon1959
Margaret Hodge was a poisonous Blairite hypocrite.
Luciana Berger's claim is nonsense - runs counter to the findings of the Home Office Select Committee, the Chakrabarti Report, the EHRC Report and all the allegation and investigation evidence that has come out from the Legal & Governance Unit.
In fact most of the high profile allegations of antisemitism against Labour members turned out to be unfounded (after the mud had stuck and the press had moved on) although sometimes changed to 'bringing the Party into disrepute' as a replacement catch-all charge. There were and are instances of antisemitic behaviour or on line activity - but according to the all-party MP group at a lower level than society in general, and at a lower level than on the right of the political spectrum.
Ed Miliband was of Jewish heritage and he was elected Labour leader! His father Ralph was subjected to anti-semitic press attacks, led by the Daily Mail, who went on (with hypocrisy to match Hodge) to play a leading role in the 'antisemitism crisis' constructed around Corbyn and Labour.
Labours failure to ever elect a female leader is indeed a source of embarrassment if not shame. But not Hodge.