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    The document is a letter signed by over 200 current and former Labour staff, members, and supporters expressing concern about Labour's response to allegations of antisemitism. It criticizes the party for smearing Jewish victims and whistleblowers who spoke out, and accuses the leader's office of interfering in disciplinary cases. It calls on the leader to answer questions about the crisis, which has damaged the party's reputation and led to an investigation into whether it broke discrimination law.

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    The document is a letter signed by over 200 current and former Labour staff, members, and supporters expressing concern about Labour's response to allegations of antisemitism. It criticizes the party for smearing Jewish victims and whistleblowers who spoke out, and accuses the leader's office of interfering in disciplinary cases. It calls on the leader to answer questions about the crisis, which has damaged the party's reputation and led to an investigation into whether it broke discrimination law.

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    The document is a letter signed by over 200 current and former Labour staff, members, and supporters expressing concern about Labour's response to allegations of antisemitism. It criticizes the party for smearing Jewish victims and whistleblowers who spoke out, and accuses the leader's office of interfering in disciplinary cases. It calls on the leader to answer questions about the crisis, which has damaged the party's reputation and led to an investigation into whether it broke discrimination law.

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    The letter criticizes Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party's response to allegations of antisemitism within the party.

    The letter is a public letter signed by current and former Labour staff and supporters, expressing concern about antisemitism in the Labour Party and criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in response.

    The letter criticizes Corbyn for smearing Jewish victims and former staff, interfering in antisemitism cases, and for Labour becoming a toxic workplace under his leadership. It also criticizes his words and actions that have caused offence to Jewish people.

    Dear Jeremy,

    We are current and former Labour staff, Labour members and dedicated supporters of Labour
    values.

    We watched Wednesday night’s Panorama special, Is Labour Anti-Semitic?, with alarm and
    anxiety.

    The young Jewish members who revealed their horrible experiences of antisemitism in Labour
    deserve our solidarity and support, in actions as well as words. And we are immensely proud of
    the nine former Labour staff who bravely spoke out on the programme and afterwards, some in
    defiance of gagging clauses. They represent the best of the Labour Party.

    The revelations in the Panorama documentary deserve to be treated with the utmost
    seriousness. But the Party’s response has been to smear Jewish victims, and former staff,
    accusing them of acting in bad faith. These are dedicated ‘civil servants’ of the Party, who quit
    jobs they cared deeply about because their working environment was so toxic that it had severe
    consequences on their mental wellbeing, prompting one staff member to consider suicide.
    The way the Party has threatened and denigrated these whistleblowers is appalling, hypocritical
    and a total betrayal of Labour’s core values. Exposing racism and corruption represents Labour
    values in action, and these whistleblowers should be thanked, not demonised.

    This shameful communications strategy is the creation of your office, which was criticised in the
    documentary for interfering in disciplinary cases involving alleged antisemitism, and has
    cynically used the party, and its outriders, to amplify a smear campaign against critics.

    But this crisis is ultimately your responsibility. Despite your repeated assurances, Labour’s
    institutionalised antisemitism is worse than ever. It is now so bad that the Equality and Human
    Rights Commission is investigating whether the party has actually broken the law by
    discriminating against Jews. Labour created the EHRC to protect our rights and challenge
    discrimination; to be investigated by it now is a mark of shame. This has all happened on your
    watch. The crisis has moved beyond a question of rules and disciplinary processes, to a
    question of a political culture, and crucially, leadership.

    For anyone to have confidence in your interest or ability to deal with this crisis, and remove the
    stain of antisemitism from the Labour Party, there are questions you need to answer.

    Did you know your most senior aides were interfering in antisemitism cases and overruling the
    staff assigned to investigate them? Why has Labour HQ become such a toxic workplace? Why
    do you think your own words and actions have caused so much offence to Jewish people? Why
    are so many antisemites drawn to support you? And why has this crisis developed only after
    you became leader?
    If you aren’t prepared to face those questions in public, from an experienced interviewer, then
    Jewish people, Labour members and the public will have to draw their own conclusions about
    your fitness to lead the Labour Party, or a Labour government.

    As its leader, the moral responsibility for Labour’s antisemitism crisis ultimately sits with you.
    Own that responsibility, or give it away to someone who will.

    Amy Fowler Siobhan Feasey


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    Ann Wardle Fiona Gordon
    Grace Skelton Ciaran Ward
    Brad Marshall James Swindlehurst
    Arlene Ainsley Lynn Miller
    Joseph Sherry Bill Lees
    Mark Allison Neil Nerva
    Martin Plaut Simon Myerson
    Hannah Lazell Josh Simons
    Tom Christian Hannah Coombs
    Sam Kennedy Christian Alison Dunning
    Jack Robinson Isobel Housecroft
    Josh James Laura Griffiths
    Joe Vinson Martin Angus
    Olivia Bailey Mike Thompson
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    Anne Sassoon James Barge
    Stephen Donnelly Anna Chowcat
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    Paul Wilkinson Danielle Grufferty
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    James Adams Ann Limb
    Harry Burns Julia Ridpath
    Michael Wincott Alvin Shum
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    Dan Simpson Sean Woodcock
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    Sam Woodcock Donna Ciarlo
    Emma Meehan Zac Harvey
    Katie Foster Josh Woolas
    Meredith Williams Raf Singer
    Jo Green Michael Chissick
    Helen Evans Janice Muir
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    Sarah Bogle Luke Myer
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    Colin Appleby Jean Corston
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    David Green Deborah Benady
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