The same John McDonnell who told LBC caller Oliver: “It isn’t a smear campaign, I’ve seen the evidence, I’ve seen the stuff on social media”.
Oliver phoned LBC and asked Mr McDonnell: “When is the Jeremy Corbyn team, including yourself, going to confront this smear campaign on anti-Semitism?”
The Labour frontbencher hit back: “I’ve seen the threats made against some of our Jewish members and MPs so it isn’t a smear campaign and we have to face up to it.”
He continued: “Where there is evidence in our political party, the Labour Party, which we’ve always prided ourselves on being anti-racist, we’ve got to stamp it out.
“When you say ‘it’s a smear campaign’ that belittles what’s happening in terms of us saying there is a problem here and the action we’re taking against it.
“We’ve got to root it out, having one anti-Semite in the Labour Party is not good enough.”
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4. Yes, this post is shocking. We hold that exposing a flaw in Facebook policy, with this shocking post, seems to be the only way to have it removed. You are reminded that various other repeated attempts and requests have not been successful (see the top quote on the image from Facebook).
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A numder of media sites are starting to report on this:
http://www.thejc.com/news/
http://www.nrg.co.il/
http://jewishnews.co.uk/
http://5mfi.com/
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