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Green Party urged to suspend candidates who breached IHRA definition of antisemitism

The JC found one had written the BBC had 'set up' someone to ask 'the Jewish question' in a debate

December 4, 2019 19:00
A tweet from Andy Brown
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The Green Party has been urged to suspend parliamentary candidates after the JC revealed they had breached the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which the party has refused to adopt.

A JC investigation found three candidates who compared Israel’s actions to those of the Nazis, one who suggested complaints of antisemitism were being used to defend Israel, and another who claimed the BBC had “set up” someone to ask “the Jewish question” in a debate.

The IHRA definition, which Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have adopted but the Greens have not, cites “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” among its “contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life”.

Andy Brown, Green parliamentary candidate for Skipton and Ripon, repeatedly drew the comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany, branding Israel’s actions “Jewish racism”. He said he was against racism “including Zionism”.