The full version of the Royall Report was originally kept secret, with only the recommendations being published in May.
It was then expected to be published alongside the Chakrabarti Report last month, but instead remained unpublished.
Baroness Royall was then brought into the wider-ranging Chakrabarti Inquiry into antisemitism in the Labour Party, which we saw as a means of keeping her quiet, and the result was a total whitewash. The JC has now published a leaked copy of Baroness Royall’s full report.
Royall finds “no evidence that the Oxford University Labour Club is itself institutionally antisemitic” but notes a “cultural problem in which behaviour and language that would once have been intolerable is now tolerated. Some Jewish members do not feel comfortable attending the meetings, let alone participating.”
Looking at the wider issue of antisemitism, she also explains that “a pervading discourse now is that Jews are neither weak, nor poor, neither workers, nor have-nots. In short, Jews cannot be victims and cannot be discriminated against.” She goes on to say that “being anti-Zionist…is often used deliberately as a tool of antisemitism”.
Royall further notes “an environment in which Jews cannot debate, or feel safe to do so, unless their every remark is prefaced by a criticism of the Israeli government”. While she explains that a clear definition of what is antisemitic “can provide useful tools for helping consider what may, or may not, constitute antisemitic discourse” and urges the Chakrabarti Inquiry “to consider this carefully”, the Chakrabarti enquiry conspicuously avoided defining antisemitism.
The full text of Baroness Royall’s report does not change our opinion following the publication of the partial report. The report tells us nothing new, except that Baroness Royall thinks that Alex Chalmers was wrong when he resigned over institutional antisemitism. There are no public findings about the antisemitic incidents at the Oxford University Labour club and those who perpetrated them, and it seems that the report is designed to be unremarkable.
Read full article at: Leaked report into Oxford University Labour Club antisemitism seems designed to be unremarkable – Campaign Against Antisemitism
