John Mann
John Mann | ||||||||||
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Born | 10 January 1960 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | |||||||||
Nationality | English | |||||||||
Alma mater | University of Manchester | |||||||||
Children | 2 daughters and 1 son | |||||||||
Spouse | Joanna White | |||||||||
Member of | Community Security Trust | |||||||||
Party | Labour | |||||||||
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John Mann (born 10 January 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw since the 2001 General Election.[1]
At the 2010 General Election, John Mann appealed for funds to defeat the Tories on the basis that:
- Mann was the political driving force behind the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism in the UK which conducted an inquiry and produced a report on antisemitism in 2006.
- Mann was a key figure behind efforts to do similar work internationally through the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA), whose conference produced the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism.
- Mann had worked harder than any other MP in Britain to organise against antisemitism and he understood the problem clearly.
John Mann, according to his appeal for funds, asserted that he was resented because he was not touched by the expenses scandals. He was entirely impossible to corrupt, either financially or politically. He had stood up for his largely working class constituents fearlessly and he had stood up against antisemitism in the same way. Money was needed urgently to fund his campaign. The threshold for publication of donations was £200 and donors had to be registered to vote. Donations over £1500 (to one or more than one candidate) had to be disclosed and donations over £7,500 published.[2]
Antisemitism
John Mann serves on the Treasury Select Committee and chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism.[3] The Group commissioned the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism in 2005. The inquiry panel, chaired by former Europe Minister Denis MacShane, gathered written and oral evidence on antisemitism in Britain and published a report of their findings on 7 September 2006. The panel's recommendations included improved reporting and recording of antisemitic attacks; a crackdown on anti-Jewish activity on university campuses; and improved international co-operation to prevent the spread of racist material online. In May 2009 John Mann received the American Jewish Committee's Jan Karski Award in recognition of his commitment to fighting antisemitism in all of its forms.[4]
Crossing swords with Ken Livingstone
On 28 April 2016, Mann publicly accosted Ken Livingstone over his comments defending a tweet by Muslim MP Naz Shah when he claimed that Hitler "was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews". Mann publicly accused Livingstone of being a "Nazi apologist" and a "fucking disgrace".[5] Following this incident, Mann was reprimanded by Labour's chief whip Rosie Winterton, with party spokesperson saying that she had told Mann that it is "completely inappropriate for Labour members of Parliament to be involved in very public rows on the television".[6] Ken Livingstone was suspended from the Labour party in relation to his earlier comments.[7] On an unrelated issue, six months earlier, Mann had repeatedly called Livingstone a "bigot" in a radio phone-in, following a controversy over Livingstone remarking that MP Kevan Jones was "obviously very depressed and disturbed".[8]
Following his outburst at Livingstone, an online petition accusing Mann of "appallingly unprofessional and toxic behaviour" and calling for him to be subject to a "disciplinary procedure" gathered over 21,000 signatures in seven days.[9] John Mann wrote in The Jewish Chronicle in early May: "If Labour cannot combat racism then we are nothing – and racism always includes antisemitism. If we cannot do that now, then we have no reason to exist".[10]
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:IMPRESS dismisses Mann's smears of antisemitism against Skwawkbox and The Canary | Article | 25 November 2021 | Steve Walker | Mr Mann, or Lord Mann as he likes to be called according to his Twitter handle, has a long record of enmity toward Skwawkbox and the left media, which have highlighted his own actions and his own displays of contempt toward Gypsy Roma and Traveller people, which caused them deep hurt and even led to him being interviewed by police. |
Document:Labour & ‘anti-Semitism’: Real goal of establishment smear campaign is to deny socialists power | Article | 23 April 2019 | Ken Livingstone | After three years of screaming headlines, the truth about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is finally revealed: just 0.08 percent of Labour’s half-a-million members have said or tweeted something anti-Semitic |
Document:Letter to Sir Keir from a newly resigned member of the Labour Party | Letter | 8 April 2020 | Bronagh Wilson | The Labour Party is now dead, it has ceased to be, it is bereft of life. You Sir Keir and your fellow travellers disgust me and it is time you PASOKed right off!. |
Document:Manufacturing consent on "antisemitism" | article | 20 October 2016 | Tony Greenstein | Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party is the target throughout this ill-conceived, politically tendentious and risible Home Affairs Select Committee report entitled "Antisemitism in the UK". The presumption of innocence has been abandoned by lawyer Chuka Umunna and his Tory friends. |
Document:The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's "antisemitism" scandal breaks his silence | Interview | 3 May 2016 | Norman Finkelstein Jamie Stern-Weiner | Norman G. Finkelstein is clear: "It’s time to put a stop to this periodic charade, because it ends up besmirching the victims of the Nazi holocaust, diverting from the real suffering of the Palestinian people, and poisoning relations between the Jewish and Muslim communities. You just had an antisemitism hysteria last year, and it was a farce. And now again? Another inquiry? Another investigation? No." |
Document:The Incredible Disappearance of Shai Masot | blog post | 2 June 2019 | Craig Murray | The open attempt to stifle all criticism of Israel, and in effect to make adherence to zionism a pre-condition for membership of the Labour Party – or indeed acceptance in wider society – is a vicious form of authoritarianism that should have been repudiated robustly from day one. |
References
- ↑ "John Mann". UK Parliament Website. Retrieved 15 November 2012.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "John Mann needs re-election help"
- ↑ "PCAA Foundation". Retrieved November 2012. Check date values in:
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(help)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto"). - ↑ John Mann (7 May 2009). "British MP, John Mann, accepts Jan Karski Award". American Jewish Committee. Retrieved 5 February 2010.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto"). (speech transcript)
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