One lucky reader will get their hands on a £200 gift voucher to spend on art prints for their home! The founder of the Labour grassroots campaign group Momentum, Jon Lansman, has announced he will step down as its chairman next month. He called for an end to the era of centralised "command and control" in the Labour Party, in which the views of members were "too often ignored" and over-ruled at the party conference. How could a respected GP get away with murder? Mr Lansman, a close ally of ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said it was time to "hand over to a new leadership.". [29], In July 2020, Lansman apologised for criticising ex-Labour staffers who had appeared on BBC Panorama's programme Is Labour Anti-Semitic, following the Party's decision to apologise for similar comments, which they said had been "false and defamatory". [23] Lansman is reported to be a supporter of mandatory reselection for Labour MPs. In January 2018, he was elected to the NEC, calling the result a victory for "21st Century socialism". He argued for a much greater say for Labour members in the running of the party. We are absolutely committed to making Labour a safe space.” ‘ It’s open season on Jews who try to speak up for what we see as a struggle for freedom and justice for the Palestinians and who try to advance the Corbyn project. It was a shitty thing to write. He is best known for having worked on Jeremy Corbyn's successful 2015 campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party and subsequently founded the pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum. Or does it smack of concerted, one-sided propaganda that goes beyond simple bias? I do not regard talking about therapy as abusive. He argued for a much greater say for Labour members in the running of the party.
"[28], In May 2020, Lansman announced that he will step down as the chairman of Momentum the following month. He is also facing opposition within Momentum after pushing for the group to withdraw support for Pete Willsman as a candidate for the NEC elections, after his outburst denying anti-Semitism in the party was revealed. Lizenz-Beispiel und HTML-Code Photo: Jon Lansman by Marco Verch under Creative Commons 2.0 Meanwhile, former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson blamed Mr Lansman for trying to oust him from his position last year in an internal row which threatened to overshadow the party's conference. In a videotaped message to the meeting, the PM used slides to show the missile factory on a map and in a photo on the ground. Not just singling out the 1% who are Labour members. He returned to a sense of certainty & security which left our lives changed & less free.
Get The Jewish News Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Mr Lansman founded Momentum in 2015 to support Mr Corbyn's leadership bid. [7], Lansman is an atheist, although he still observes some Jewish holidays festivals. https://www.ft.com/video/905431b0-7109-42e3-b0a8-14a2910e40bb A source said: “Like many other leading party members close to the leadership, he recognises the necessity of agreeing that definition in order to be able to begin to rebuild trust with the Jewish community, whatever concerns we may have about the application of some examples.”. Saved searches. [22] Before the Labour Party Conference in late September 2015, Lansman was defeated by Michael Cashman and Gloria De Piero in an election for membership of the Conference Arrangements Committee, the body that sets the agenda for the Conference. To me that seems a good idea. Despite railing against the super rich and standing behind radical socialist policies, Mr Lansman lived in a luxury building and his family reportedly run a property company with links to a tax haven. He was active in the student union while at Cambridge University and was an elected student member of the Academic Board.
Real antisemitism seems rare.
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The gaslighting thing stands.
Later, he attended Birkbeck, University of London, reading History and Politics graduating in 2007 with a Masters. Labour has widespread problem with antisemitism – Momentum founder. But they added Lansman stands by the party’s code and believes it adds “precision and clarity” to the process, increasing the ability to deal with those engaging in behaviour that IHRA says may be viewed as anti-Semitic. The Guardian reported it under the headline Labour has widespread problem with antisemitism – Momentum founder. I understand why Mike Cushman steers away from a ‘conspiracy’ explanation – I have the same natural reluctance. Mr Lansman, who has been a leading figure on Labour's "hard left" for four decades, has been criticised by some within Labour who have viewed Momentum as a party within a party. This was followed by an attempt to prevent her speaking to a Momentum meeting in Wood Green – a busride from my home. A Corbyn campaign spokesperson commented: "Jon Lansman's tweets are not on behalf of the campaign. [15], Mervyn Jones identified Lansman as part of a group on the left that were "quite prepared to see a right-wing breakaway as the necessary cost of swinging the party in what they saw as the desired direction". Das Bild Jon Lansman von Marco Verch kann unter Creative Commons Lizenz genutzt werden. I have seen no tweets that appear to be driven by hatred of Jews, I have seen screen shots of some that confuse Jews, Israelis and Zionists and drift into making hurtful statements. Mr Lansman founded Momentum in 2015 to support Mr Corbyn's leadership bid. I like to think about things and make my own mind up. The anti-Vaxxers are making our children vulnerable to measles and other preventable diseases; the antisemitism witch hunters are making Palestinians vulnerable to abuse by the Israeli regime by making people scared to speak in their defence.