Reading through the Labour Party's website "No place for Anti-Semitism", the following points have been identified as missing and these internationally recognised facts, should be included in Labour's attempts, to educate their members on Anti-Semitism.
Labour state, that Jewish Israelis include refugees from the "Middle East who faced discrimination after the -1948- founding of the State of Israel".
But during World War Two, Anti-Semitic legislation was imposed on the Jews of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, following the establishment of the Vichy regime in France. The Vichy also controlled both Syria and the Lebanon. Thousands of Libyan Jews also survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The outbreak of violence against Baghdad Jewry - known as the Farhud - erupted on June 1st, 1941. The rise of a pro-German government in Iraq - through a military coup - and Nazi influences, were already present in Iraq. Examples include the Futtuwa, a military movement which was influenced by the Hitler Youth in Germany.
Germany's diplomatic presence in Baghdad, had utilised Anti-British sentiments to facilitate the spread of Nazi propaganda, which included Arabic-language radio broadcasts from Berlin, along with the publication and circulation of Mein Kampf in Arabic, by far right figure Yunis al-Sab'awi.
As a safeguarding issue, Labour should also inform their members of the warning, issued by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: "The Internet, because of its ease of access and dissemination, seeming anonymity, and perceived authority, is now the chief conduit of Holocaust denial."
Hussein Al-alak is the editor of Iraq Solidarity News (Al-Thawra)
Hussein Al-alak is the editor of Iraq Solidarity News (Al-Thawra)
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