• MIKE Katz’s article (‘Jewish members no longer feel unwanted in the Labour Party’, October 14) is so full of tendentious statements it is hard to know where to begin.

He affirms that “the Equality and Human Rights Commission conclusions were stark. Labour had broken equalities law under Jeremy Corbyn. It was not a safe place for Jewish members or for those in the Labour Party that spoke out against anti-Semitism.”

Can I remind him, the party was not found to be guilty of the institutional anti-Semitism of which the Jewish Labour Movement had accused it.

The report contains no evidence that the Labour Party “was not a safe place for Jewish members”. The breaches of the equalities law found by the EHRC were few and far between.

Those alleged to have been perpetrated by Pam Bromley and Ken Livingstone, acting as “agents” of the party, are currently being taken to judicial review.

The interferences found by the leadership in the disciplinary processes were largely in favour of trying to expedite hearings, that is, in favour of those bringing complaints, not to influence judgments.

Jeremy Corbyn is barely mentioned in the EHRC report and no credence is given to the defamatory claims that he is anti-Semitic (as stated frequently by JLM’s parliamentary chair Dame Margaret Hodge).

Perhaps most importantly at no stage does the report try to describe how and when any Jewish member of the party had suffered discrimination on account of being Jewish.

So when Mike Katz talks of Jews being made to feeling welcome in the Labour Party, I hope he will take up the cases of the nearly 40 Jewish members, lifelong socialists and anti-racists, who have been under investigation, one way or another, for “anti-Semitism”.

They certainly are not feeling welcome, nor are those large numbers who support them.

There are clearly deep political differences which divide Labour Party Jewish members about the nature of the Israeli state and what actions are appropriate in support of Palestinian rights.

That these should be played out in a hunt for “anti-Semites” is Orwellian.

The Labour Party, to its credit, at its recent conference came out fulsomely in support of Palestinian rights and in taking meaningful action, including sanctions, where Israel is in breach of international law.

I notice Mike Katz nowhere alludes to these policies adopted substantially by conference. Can we hope to see him and the JLM throwing their weight behind their rapid implementation?

RICHARD KUPER
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