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    Posted by Raskolnikov on March 4, 2019, 12:55 pm, in reply to "Official House of Commons A/S report concedes that: "

    be reporting this at the top of their voices in a very high profile position in their news broadcasts and webpages....what's that?...it's nowhere to be seen? How curious.

    There is some serious bullshit in that report too mind you:

    At the launch of the Chakrabarti report, the Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth walked out after a Labour activist reportedly said: “Ruth Smeeth is working hand-in-hand with the right-wing media to attack Jeremy”. When she challenged him, the audience reportedly started shouting at Ms Smeeth, who later told the press that “Jeremy said nothing”. When questioned about this in oral evidence to us, Mr Corbyn said that he had not spoken out because he was not chairing the press conference.152 Ms Smeeth said later that day that no one from the Leader’s office had contacted her since the event, “which is itself a catastrophic failure of leadership”.153 We have received no confirmation from Mr Corbyn that he has subsequently met with Ms Smeeth to discuss this event.

    Since that event, Ms Smeeth has reportedly experienced more than 25,000 incidents of abuse, including being called a “yid c**t” and a “CIA/Mossad informant”, and has said that she has “never seen antisemitism in Labour on this scale”.154 Ms Smeeth attended the Labour Party conference with a security detail, after press reports that she had received an antisemitic death threat online.155 In September, it was reported that Ms Smeeth had vocally rejected Mr Corbyn’s suggestion that those being abused online should simply “ignore it”, stating that “threats detailing how someone wants to hang me and what they want to do to me” are “not something that I nor the police can ignore”.

    156 In a television interview, she said of the abuse: “It’s vile, it’s disgusting and it’s done in the name of the Leader of the Labour party, which makes it even worse”.157 Ms Smeeth said that she needed Mr Corbyn “to make it clear what can be done”, including “naming and shaming some of the worst perpetrators who are doing it in his name”.

    Reportedly, apparently, supposedly,reports of and so on. Nothing concrete and apparently (ha) very little evidence. Then to wrap it all up the final paragraph makes out that all of these (25,000! Really? 25k? You will have obviously passed all of those tweets/emails on to the police as evidence then?) are "doing it in his name" as if he can name the people who tweet/email her.

    Disgraceful.

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