"Forward
The Labour Party is no longer a safe space for Jewish people or for those who stand up against antisemitism. That is the disturbing but inevitable conclusion from the evidence that JLM has put before the commission over the course of the past 13 months. Since the time JLM made its original submission, calling for the Commission to use its powers to investigate the Labour Party, the tide of evidence of antisemitism manifest within the Labour Party has not subsided. Alarmingly, it has swelled. The relentless flow of antisemitism is so unabating that it has proved a challenge to complete the submission. New incidents occur on a daily basis and have become normalized and forgotten as the Party's machinery finds more ways of ignoring, denying, relativising and accepting the antisemitism that has consumed it.
Since Jeremy Corbin became leader of the Labour Party, he has made the Party a welcoming refuge for antisemites. He has done that in a number of ways, including by publicly supporting antisemites an antisemitic trips. The Labour Party is cast in his image. As such, it is a party that: promotes known antisemites to positions of power; does not take action (and in fact subverts action) against those guilty of abhorrent antisemitism; victimizes those that speak out against antisemitism; fails to protect Jewish members from antisemitism; allows Jewish MPs to be hounded out of their political home; and derides the issue of antisemitism to the extent that its very existence within the Party is denied. The incontrovertible evidence of that is before the Commission. It is plain that the Party does not consider the race and religion of Judaism to be a characteristic worthy of protection. That is a very dangerous place to be.
This is a decisive moment in history. Not just the history of the Jewish people but the political history of this country. 47% of Jews who live in the country say they will seriously consider leaving if the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn gets into power. 87% of Jews consider him to be an antisemite. Given the horrific recent history of the Jews, we have more reason to be nervous than other groups. The Labour Party has made the political calculation that antisemitism is a price worth paying to maintain its internal unity. It has become incapable of addressing that issue itself. The Commission is, therefore, in a unique and hugely privileged position; it can alter the devastating course that the Labour Party is set upon. The Labour Party can't and won't. The Commission has the power (and we say the obligation) to force the Labour Party to acknowledge that it has become institutionally antisemitic and to make meaningful and pervasive recommendations for change. The Commission can and must hold the Labour Party to account so that it can, once again, become a safe space for Jewish people..."