Labour Against The Witchhunt

Labour Against The Witchhunt
Formation	October 2017
Interests	Anti-semitism

Labour Against The Witchhunt was started in 2017 after frustration about use of the label "anti-semitism" in the UK labour party.

Founding Principles

1. We demand the Labour Party ends the practice of automatic, instant, expulsion or suspension of Labour Party members;

that all those summarily expelled or suspended from membership without due process be immediately reinstated; that a member accused of a breach of rule be informed of who their accuser is; that a member accused of a breach of rule be given all the evidence submitted against them by their accuser; that a member accused of a breach of rule be regarded as innocent until proven guilty; that membership rights must not be removed until disciplinary investigations and procedures have been completed; that disciplinary procedures must include consultation with the accused member’s CLP and Branch; that disciplinary procedures must be time limited. Charges not resolved within three months must be automatically dropped.

2. We demand that the Labour Party rejects the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, which in its list of examples conflates anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism and support for the rights of the Palestinian people. Instead, the Labour Party should adopt a simple, straightforward, definition of anti-Semitism, such as by Professor Brian Klug: “Anti-Semitism is a form of hostility to Jews as Jews, where Jews are perceived as something other than what they are”.

3. We demand the immediate abolition of the Labour Party’s “Compliance Unit”. Disciplinary decisions should be taken only by elected bodies, not by paid officials.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:All UK Labour leadership candidates sign up to stepped up pro-Zionist witch-hunt	blog post	15 January 2020	Robert Stevens	A day after posting the 10 points, the BoD tweeted that pro-Corbyn deputy leadership candidates Richard Burgon and Dawn Butler were “absent from the list of those who have signed the #TenPledges to tackle antisemitism in Labour.”

 

A document sourced from Labour Against The Witchhunt

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:We condemn the suspension of Jo Bird and the appointment of Lord Falconer	Article	Louise Ellman Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn Joan Ryan Lord Levy Margaret Hodge Tom Watson Tony Greenstein Jewish Voice for Labour Chris Williamson Jennie Formby WitchHunt Jackie Walker Marc Wadsworth Jo Bird Charlie Falconer	4 March 2019	Admin	As Ken Loach said: “If it looks like a witch hunt and behaves like a witch hunt – it may well be just that. This is intolerable and must end now.”

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