How do you know whether or not you have had unconscious bias training? Then again, that is the point of it, I suppose.
Steve Reed remains undisciplined. Rebecca Long-Bailey was sacked for less, and people have been expelled from the Labour Party for far less. Not least, it must be said, under Jeremy Corbyn. But the rules never apply to the Right. Labour has rules at all purely in order to punish the Left for existing. That is their sole purpose.
Even Keir Starmer must have cottoned on that if you see the term "puppet-master" and think of "the Jews", then the anti-Semite is you. It is also possible that, not least with a Jewish wife and children, he did not see Richard Desmond as worth defending. Desmond is hardly the best of them. I would not be surprised if someone like the Board of Deputies had been on to Starmer and asked him not to do this one, as they had no desire to be associated with Desmond.
This trick is not going to go away, though. Anyone may convert to Judaism, there is no agreed process for doing that across the different branches of Judaism, and the Rabbinical literature says to take someone at their word if they tell you that they are a Jew. So if you do not want any criticism of your dodgy deal with a Cabinet Minister over a planning application, or whatever else you may want to shield from criticism, then just say that you are Jewish and that your critics are therefore "anti-Semitic".
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