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Jeremy Corbyn supporters invested around £ 10,000 in a ‘legal fund’ for the former Labor leader on Thursday when he was suspended from his party for playing down a damning report on anti-Semitism.
The donations were made to a Go Fund Me site created in July by a supporter after Corbyn faced legal action for criticizing the party’s decision to apologize and pay damages to anti-Semitism.
On Thursday alone, supporters donated around £ 10,000, bringing the total figure in the ‘fund’ to more than £ 345,000, although the goal remains £ 20,000.
Multiple donations are made every minute, despite Thursday’s Equality and Human Rights Commission report condemning Labor’s handling of anti-Semitism complaints when Corbyn was Labor leader.
Jeremy Corbyn supporters invested around £ 10,000 in a ‘legal fund’ for the former Labor leader on Thursday when he was suspended from his party for playing down a damning report on anti-Semitism.
Corbyn (pictured Thursday) was suspended from the Labor Party after he sparked fury by saying in a statement released this morning that ‘the scale of the problem was also dramatically exaggerated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by many of the media ‘
The landmark report found “significant flaws in the way the Labor Party has handled complaints of anti-Semitism over the past four years.”
But Mr Corbyn sparked a furor in a statement released this morning saying “the scale of the problem was also dramatically exaggerated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as much of the media.”
His comments led current Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer to suspend him from the party this morning.
Since then, thousands of donations ranging from £ 10 to £ 50 have been made to the ‘Jeremy Legal Fund’ online.
The fund was created in July by Carole Morgan, from Ryde in south-east England, so the former Labor leader would know his fans “haven’t forgotten.”
Less than 24 hours after its creation, the £ 20,000 target was smashed and quickly rose to over £ 200,000, pressuring Corbyn to pay the money back.
His comments prompted Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer to suspend him from the party this morning.
The figure is currently 347,028 pounds.
The page was configured after seven former party staff members and journalist John Ware said they were taking legal action against the former opposition leader, after he attacked successor Sir Keir’s decision to settle a defamation lawsuit sparked by a documentary by BBC Panorama.
Corbyn said at the time that the party’s decision to make a payment of £ 500,000 was “disappointing” and “a political decision”.
Corbyn went on to say that the legal advice the party received said it had a ‘strong case and the evidence in the leaked Labor report that is now the subject of an NEC investigation led by Martin Forde QC strengthened concerns about the role played by some of those who participated in the program. ‘
When asked whether action would be taken stemming from Mr. Corbyn’s statement after the hearing, Patron Law’s attorney Mark Lewis, who represented the Panorama complainants and Mr. Ware, said: ‘I can confirm that He has instructed me to continue with the cases. ‘
On Thursday, Labor said they had suspended Corbyn for his “failure to retraction” his statement that said the findings of the EHRC report were “dramatically exaggerated.”
After being suspended, Corbyn criticized the decision as a ‘political intervention’ which he said he would ‘vigorously contest’
On Thursday, Labor said they had suspended Corbyn for “failing to retract” his statement, which said the findings of the EHRC report were “dramatically exaggerated.”
A spokesman said: ‘In light of his comments made today and that he did not subsequently retract, the Labor Party has suspended Jeremy Corbyn pending an investigation.
“They have also removed the whip from the Parliamentary Labor Party.”
In response, Mr. Corbyn said in a statement on Twitter: “I am going to vigorously challenge political intervention to suspend myself.
“I made it absolutely clear that those who deny that there has been an anti-Semitism problem in the Labor Party are wrong.
“I will continue to support a zero tolerance policy towards all forms of racism.”
When he was asked earlier if he would resign from the Labor Party, earlier he told the stations: ‘Of course not. I am proud to be a member of the Labor Party, I joined the Labor Party when I was 16, I have fought racism my whole life and I will fight racism for the rest of my life. ”
Among the allegations made against Labor by the EHRC are that of the 70 antisemitism complaints analyzed, 23 showed signs of “political interference” by the office of Mr. Corbyn and others.
They also criticized “the lack of leadership within the Labor Party on these issues,” which they said was “difficult to reconcile with their stated commitment to a zero-tolerance approach to anti-Semitism.”
On Thursday, Labor said they had suspended Corbyn for his “failure to retraction” his statement, which said the EHRC report’s findings were “dramatically exaggerated.”
Additionally, they violated the equality law in two cases, including one involving former London Mayor Ken Livingstone ‘using anti-Semitic tropes and suggesting that anti-Semitism complaints were false or defamatory’ in 2016, before he resigned from the party.
Corbyn was not directly censored by the report, which looked at the party as a whole.
New leader Sir Keir Starmer had initially tried to sidestep the question of whether he would take direct action against his predecessor in the wake of the report when he addressed reporters this morning.
This was despite saying: ‘Yes, after all the pain, all the pain and all the evidence in this report, there are still those who think that there is no problem with anti-Semitism in the Labor Party, that everything is overdone, or a faction attack, so frankly you’re part of the problem too. And you shouldn’t be close to the Labor Party either.
Jewish Labor MP Dame Margaret Hodge said of Corbyn’s suspension: “This is the correct decision after Corbyn’s embarrassing reaction to the EHRC report.
‘Labor is finally saying enough is enough, anti-Semitism can never be tolerated in our party. Now we can finally move on. ‘
