Campaign Against Antisemitism’s analysis is that Mr McEntee’s actions and statements amount to breaches of the International Definition of Antisemitism and qualify as antisemitic discourse according to our methodology.
By endorsing a statement in which it is suggested that Jews consider oppression against them to be in some way more significant than that perpetrated against “any other race or religion”, conferring “some kind of special privilege” [1a], he was endorsing a statement which was “making mendacious, dehumanising, demonising, or stereotypical allegations about Jews…”
By endorsing a statement in which it was alleged that antisemitism is used “as a smokescreen” to shield the State of Israel from criticism and suggesting that the press was “bowing and scraping” to accusations of antisemitism at a time when antisemitism had been a focus of media interest, given how many members of the British Jewish community had been protesting about antisemitism in the Labour Party [1b]; and by signing a statement which accused a Jewish charity fighting antisemitism of being a “politically motivated external campaign” enacting an “anti-Palestinian agenda” by “systematically [making] accusations of antisemitism against pro-Palestine activists” [2], he was endorsing the deployment of the so-called ‘Livingstone Formulation’, by accusing Jews who cite evidence of antisemitism of lying, conspiring or having deceitful motives in doing so, when there is clear evidence that there have been breaches of the International Definition of Antisemitism. This further constitutes “making mendacious, dehumanising, demonising, or stereotypical allegations about Jews…”