Jonathan Cook dissects the investigation by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the U.K. Labour Party.
by Jonathan Cook
Part 4 - Flawed Approach
The second conclusion, which I lacked the space to deal with properly in my Middle East Eye piece, relates more specifically to the commission’s own flawed approach in compiling the report rather than the media’s misrepresentation of the report.
As I explained in my earlier piece, the commission itself is very much an establishment body. Even had it wanted to, it was never going to stick its neck out and rubbish the narrative presented by the establishment media.
On procedural matters, such as how the party handled anti-Semitism complaints, the equalities commission kept the report as vague as possible, obfuscating who was responsible for those failings and who was supposed to benefit from Corbyn staff’s interference. Both issues had the potential to fatally undermine the established media narrative.
Instead, the commission’s imprecision has allowed the media and Jewish organisations to interpret the report in self-serving ways — ways convenient to their existing narrative about “institutional anti-Semitism” emerging in Labour under Corbyn’s leadership.
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