LABOUR suffered one of its darkest days yesterday as a damning dossier revealed members branded Jews “subhuman” and bullied them out of the party.
In a devastating blow to his election campaign, Jeremy Corbyn was personally accused by the party’s Jewish wing of “engaging in” nine acts of anti-Semitism.
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Shocking testimony by 70 whistleblowers said activists joked about forcing Jews to eat bacon sandwiches, branded a Jewish member a “child killer” and shared vile posts online.
Mr Corbyn’s office was accused of a cover-up and intervening to stop racists being kicked out if they were his pals.
And calls for Ken Livingstone to be expelled were allegedly dismissed by senior members of Mr Corbyn’s team as part of a “Jewish conspiracy”. Last night the Holocaust Education Trust warned this echoed “Nazi-era language”.
The claims come as it emerged Mr Corbyn was tellingly filmed embracing a hate preacher who said Israelis make bread with children’s blood.
The anti-Semitism allegations are contained in a dossier by the Jewish Labour Movement and given to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission probing claims of Labour racism.
The dossier warns: “Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, he has made the party a welcoming refuge for anti-Semites.”
‘HITLER WAS RIGHT’
Urging the EHRC to find Labour guilty of institutional racism, it adds: “This is a decisive movement in history. Not just the history of the Jewish people, but the political history of this country.”
The shocking 52-page report alleges:
- One member was abused 22 times including being branded “Zio scum” and told “Hitler was right”.
- Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth was bombarded with 25,000 anti-Semitic messages, including ones branding her a “yid c***”.
- Head of complaints and Corbyn ally Thomas Gardiner ordered grievances be uploaded to secret USB sticks and delivered to Corbyn staff to rule on — and then told staff to lie about it.
The whistleblowers said Labour was flooded by a wave of anti-Jew racism in the aftermath of Mr Corbyn’s 2016 re-election campaign.
Labour MPs who dared to criticise Mr Corbyn over it were slapped down by party bosses, abused by members, and several hounded out.
In one case it took eight months to suspend Holocaust-denier Alan Bull, while two councillors who had exposed him were driven from the party.
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Former Labour worker Sam Matthews said he was driven to the brink of suicide with the stress of working in its complaints team. He said: “There will be a concerted campaign to try and dismiss this dossier as a politically motivated smear against current leadership, or against a certain type of politics.
“I would implore anyone reading this to engage with it with their conscience plugged in as they think how they vote next week.”
And he dismissed Mr Corbyn’s claim he has “dealt with” the anti-Semitism scandal as “lies and misinformation”.
Mr Corbyn — who yesterday visited Rugby, Warwicks, and served school dinners at Bilton High School — insisted: “I think we have got processes in place which have improved it a great deal.”
Meanwhile a video emerged from 2012 showing Mr Corbyn shaking hands with Hamas fundraiser Sheikh Raed Salah, who had sneaked into the UK to give hate speeches.
His deportation was blocked but a judge ruled he had used “the blood libel” — a trope which claims Jews kill children to use their blood for religious rituals. Yet Mr Corbyn called him an “honoured citizen” and invited him for tea in Parliament.
Corbyn anti-Jew actions exposed
THE damning dossier points the finger firmly at Jeremy Corbyn and highlights his personal anti-Semitism scandals.
Jewish Labour Movement said he “repeatedly associated with, sympathised with and engaged in anti-Semitism”.
One damning page outlines each occasion Mr Corbyn has shared a platform with anti-Semites, defended them or was forced to apologise for his own actions.
They include him writing a foreword for a book in which Jews are blamed for European wars.
They also point to him defending Rev Stephen Sizer, who was banned by church authorities from social media for sharing anti-Semitic material blaming Israel for 9/11.
He supported the artist Mear One, who painted an anti-Semitic mural in London’s East End.
Mr Corbyn also apologised for attending an event on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2010 where Israel was compared to the Nazi regime.
And a video emerged last year of the Labour leader at a wreath-laying ceremony in Tunisia next to the graves of terrorists behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
Last month Salah was jailed in Israel for inciting terrorism after praising a gun attack which killed three cops.
Euan Philipps, spokesman for Labour Against Anti-semitism, said: “In August 2015, Mr Corbyn claimed he had been ‘’unaware’’ of a British court’s findings in 2012 that found Raed Salah guilty of blood libel.
“However, footage shows him embracing Raed Salah in April 2012 — at the end of a meeting in which Mr Corbyn had been discussing the British court judgment which he later claimed to have known nothing about.”
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Stalwart: Labour risk
FORMER minister Joan Ryan yesterday became the latest ex-Labour MP to urge people not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn.
Ms Ryan — who had been a Labour member for 40 years before switching to Change UK this year — said Mr Corbyn was an “extremist” and not fit to be PM.
Speaking in London, she said: “I think people know that there is a huge risk if we vote for Jeremy Corbyn.”
She was joined by Ian Austin, who quit over the anti-Semitism scandal.
He said: “We’re appalled that a party that we both joined to fight racism has been poisoned against Jewish people.”
