Jeremy Corbyn has defended Labour’s new antisemitism code as an honest attempt to eradicate anti-Jewish conduct while allowing “legitimate debate” on Israel and Palestine.
The Labour leader claimed his party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) had accepted “almost all” of the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
Speaking at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said: “What's been done is an honest attempt to make sure that we do make it clear we will not tolerate antisemitism in any form and we will allow legitimate debate on issues facing Israel and Palestine, but it cannot ever be conducted in any antisemitic form.”
He also claimed the party was not trying to rewrite a new code of its own on antisemitism.
