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[–]Movellon[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

From the article:

A Labour MP forced to apologise twice in a month has resigned from Sir Keir Starmer’s frontbench team.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a staunch ally of Jeremy Corbyn, blamed a campaign by the “right wing media” which he said had unleashed a torrent of online hate and made his position untenable.

The Brighton Kemptown MP apologised to the Harry Potter author last month after he accused her of using her own sexual assault as “justification” for discrimination against trans people.

At the weekend he apologised for Facebook comments in which he suggested Jewish claims to Israel were "not progressive in [their] very nature" and that Zionism was a "dangerous nationalist idea".

Mr Russell-Moyle said his office was receiving abusive calls every day and that he and his team needed time to recover from the stress.

A Labour spokesperson said: “Lloyd spoke to Keir Starmer this afternoon and informed Keir of his decision to step back from front bench duties as shadow minister for the natural environment. Keir thanked Lloyd for his hard work on the frontbench and wished him well in his plans for the coming months to focus on housing and youth services.”

For Non-UK People:

The Labour Party is the main opposition party in the UK, traditionally Social Democratic it has gone further left in recent years and has been in the grip of several ideological cults. It's historically been pro-Jewish but has had a very vocal contingent of anti-semitism that has been amplified by the election of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn a man who shared platforms with Irish republican terrorists and also with Hamas.

Labour was humiliated at the last election and lost loads of seats in the House of Commons to a party that has been in power for 10 years and has had to elect a new leader following Corbyn's resignation. Three of the four leadership candidates and several of the deputy leadership candidates signed pledges from the Labour Trans Group that called for the expulsion of anyone who supported LGB Alliance or various Women's groups and branded those organisations hate groups. One leadership candidate announced on TV that she thinks male paedophile prisoners should be housed with female prisoners if the male prisoner identifies as female and another announced that children are born without a sex.

The leadership candidate who won did not sign the above pledge but has been very much on the fence - the main issue facing him is the very strong anti-Jewish racism in the party.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle is very much from the far left of the party and was an MP was got elected to Parliament under Jeremy Corbyn.

[–]al-Amira 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The way anti-semitism is used here is pretty much on par with how TRAs use the term transphobia, meaning it doesn't mean anything what so ever. Anyone who doesn't choke on Netanyahu's cock is an anti-semite or self-hating Jew according to Israeli officials and the western media.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I find it laughable that criticism of Israel is considered "antisemitic" when there are a lot of Jews who oppose the State of Israel. I don't care if a politician supports or opposes Israel, but I wished that politicians would focus on issues that affect the countries that elected them instead of worrying about countries they don't live in.