Just seen this Guardian piece about the Labour councillors meeting where the comments were made that were leaked to, and reported by, the Daily Mail.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...i-graham-jones
Not sure what Graham Jones said that was wrong. Embarrassing for Starmer, certainly, but just saying '****ing Israel again" and arguing that no UK citizen should be fighting in the armed forced of another state unless there was a formal alliance with the UK is a reasonable position.
Azher Ali went full conspiracy nut. But the only thing he said that might be construed as anti Semitic was:
'In another recording, Ali said “people in the media from certain Jewish quarters” were “giving crap” about the MP Andy McDonald, who was suspended by Labour after he used the controversial phrase “between the river and the sea” in a speech during a rally.'
I assume he is talking about the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Labour Movement, the Leadership Council and the Campaign Against Antisemitism. They are all pro-Israel, Zionist lobby groups - some affiliated with Labour, some with closer ties to the UK Tories and to Likud in Israel. He should not have implied that they represent Jews or speak for Jews in the UK (even though some of them claim that). The 'crap' wasn't coming from 'certain Jewish quarters', it was coming from pro Israel lobby groups. It was a political intervention, not one from a monolithic religious/cultural community. In that one respect he was flirting with a racist comment.