He has been allowed back...but Keir Starmer has decided not to allow him back into the Parliamentary Labour party...so he will be sitting as an Independent. I can’t make my mind up whether this is a blunder by Starmer or a wise move...time alone will tell. Corbyn certainly has a lot of supporters, but that did not translate into votes for Labour at the last General Election, in fact the prospect of him being PM was a major factor in why many natural Labour supporters voted Tory. He’s a “marmite” figure...love him or loathe him! At least Starmer is trying to bring the party back to electability with the electorate who are not all Labour Party members. If a party can’t get itself elected it doesn’t really matter how many new members it attracts, if that doesn’t translate into votes nationally.

@Marionville yes, I’m not sure if it always matters who is sitting, but it definitely matters that people feel they are represented.

Yes...I think he was right...in fact I think he had no option if he wants to make the Party electable again. The main reason Labour lost so badly at the General Election last year was because Corbyn as PM was seen as unpalatable to many voters. The Jewish community may not be big enough to influence the way the country votes. but this issue is an important one to many who are not Jewish because it’s indicative of intolerance of a plurality of identities and ethnicities.

In other words, you are saying that, he is to the left in the UK, what Trump is to the right in the US.

@Fernapple Interesting way of putting it, but yes. Where Trump has mobilised older right-wing authoritarian supporters, Corbyn did so with young left winger 'anarchists'. Both groups believe they are right, yet both are wrong in the practical world.

No...it’s very real, the EHRC findings are thorough and independent. Corbyn himself is probably no anti Semite, but he has enabled it to thrive in the Party under his leadership. It’s his denial and his downplaying it’s extent that is the reason for his suspension.

I don’t agree...after reading and listening extensively to the anti Semitic invective, even death threats that many Jewish Labour MPs and Jewish members of the Labour Party had to endure under his watch, I believe that he and his advisers knew and tried to play it down and interfered with having it thoroughly investigated. There have always been extreme factions to the far left, bordering on communism, on the fringes of the Labour Party, who are anti Semitic and racist. The Militant Tendency was a big problem from the 1960’s until Labour under Neil Kinnoch managed to purge the Party of them...it was only after that purging of these extremists that Labour became electable, enabling Blair to become the most successful Party leader in their history. Corbyn let them all back in on his wave of new members in 2015 and that’s when this current anti-Semitic problem began. I don’t believe Corbyn himself is anti Semitic, but that is not his problem...he has allowed known anti Semites back into the Party and then has failed to deal with the horrendous repercussions. He has been suspended not because he is anti Semitic, but because he is still unable to grasp the scale of the anti Semitism and damage wreaked on Jewish members and MPs, and his denial of it compounds the problem. I think Keir Starmer had no option.

Well said. The following is from a friend who is an activist in the labour movement and the Palestinian situation.

The Labour party have always taken this antisemitism scam seriously. Consequently they are over a barrel. The Zionist lobby will always invent an excuse to call Corbyn a Jew hater (There was one complaint that he put a German pronunciation on someone's name, therefore he was antisemitic and vile man: honest, I have not made that up. It was some actor who came out with that repugnant crap that was never called out for the pathetic, nonsensical smear that it really was.) Stamer is shitting himself everytime the latest antisemitic scandal hits the headlines. So, Corbyn is going to be expelled: he hasn't got a snowball's chance of surviving this one which was always going to come for him. An honest politician - which is a very rare thing - who virtually from the cradle has been against racism of any form, has been hounded as a despicable racist. The saddest thing is that people believe it.

Says it better than I could.