Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to root out anti-Semitism was laid bare last night in a leak of party documents which reveal the mammoth backlog of unresolved complaints.
Over 130 cases of anti-Jewish racism have still not been actioned, according to the damning papers obtained by the Sunday Times.
Of the cases Labour has dealt with, the perpetrators have only received minor punishments or been let off the hook entirely.
The documents also reveal the stomach-curdling racism espoused by party members, including calls for Jews to be butchered and dark references to gas chambers.
The bombshell whistleblower leak would seem to pour cold water on Mr Corbyn’s insistent claim he is ‘dealing’ with anti-Semitism, despite fresh examples regularly undermining him.
Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to root out anti-Semitism was laid bare last night in a leak of party documents which reveal the mammoth backlog of unresolved complaints
The left-winger’s claim to enforce a zero tolerance approach to racism do not appear to be supported by his own party’s documents, which describe a long-winded process that can drag on for months before someone is booted out.
One member from Birmingham apparently suggested on Facebook that the Red Sea was the ‘ideal destination’ to exterminate Jews ‘who are a cancer to us all’.
It took eight months for this activist, who went on to ‘no need for gas chambers anyway gas is so expensive and we need it in England,’ to be turfed out.
A secret audio recording revealed one case has been sidelined for over three years.
In a damning indictment of the party’s disciplinary procedures – which Mr Corbyn himself created – a Labour member was not expelled after yelling at a councillor for ‘licking the bum of Jews for money’.
One grassroots activist branded Jews ‘bent nose manipulative liars’ while another called for the entire Jewish race to be wiped out.
Mr Corbyn has been dogged by allegation’s of anti-Semitism since he became leader in 2015.
Only this week did he finally apologise for allowing anti-Jewish racism to manifest in the party, after being declared unfit for office by the Chief Rabbi.
The bombshell whistleblower leak would seem to pour cold water on Mr Corbyn’s insistent claim he is ‘dealing’ with anti-Semitism, despite fresh examples regularly undermining him
The release of these internal party documents threatens to sink Mr Corbyn’s campaign as the race for Number 10 enters its final few days.
Five Labour members were named in the documents. The Sunday Times reports that only David Cooper, who said ‘the Jew is worse than Black Death’, was expelled while all the others only received a warning.
A Labour Party spokesman said: ‘These five individuals are all either expelled or suspended, and these claims about numbers of cases are categorically untrue.
‘Jeremy Corbyn brought forward new powers, which are in operation, to expel individuals in cases of indisputable anti-Semitism in a matter of weeks, rather than months.
‘This is proof of the robust action the Party is taking to root out anti-Semitism. No other party has introduced rapid expulsion processes and it’s just been revealed that three Conservative candidates have engaged in anti-Semitism in recent years and haven’t apologised but the Conservatives are still refusing to suspend them.’
Rabbi Marvin Hier, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said: ‘If it wasn’t for Winston Churchill and Britain leading the fight against Nazism in the Second World War who knows if the Allies would have won?’
A party source added: ‘It’s the NCC (National Constitutional Committee) that has failed to hear cases quickly enough. It’s for precisely this reason we introduced rapid expulsion processes so we no longer have to wait for the NCC.’
It came as the Mail on Sunday reported that the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – a human rights organisation which conducts research on the Holocaust – had placed Mr Corbyn’s Labour Party first on its 2019 list of Top 10 Worst Global Anti-Semitic Incidents.
Labour branded it a ‘transparent political attack’, which they said has ‘nothing to do with tackling anti-Semitism’.
A party spokesman said: ‘This ranking is ridiculous and grossly offensive.
‘Putting Jeremy Corbyn at the head of a list containing neo-Nazi synagogue shooters is a transparent political attack and has nothing to do with tackling anti-Semitism.’
There have been persistent complaints by Jewish groups that anti-Semitism has been allowed to flourish within the Labour ranks since Mr Corbyn took the party reigns.
The leadership subsequently acknowledged that it was too slow to respond to the concerns, but has insisted that new measures have been put in place to deal with complaints more effectively.
The issue erupted into the General Election campaign last week, when the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis warned that ‘a new poison sanctioned from the top’ had taken root in the party, and questioned Mr Corbyn’s fitness for office.
Mr Corbyn faced further criticism after he repeatedly refused to apologise during an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil – although he later did so during an appearance on ITV.