“When my family helped to form the Labour Party in 1906, they suffered terribly because of that. The Jewish community in Leeds stood beside them and supported them. That is why I took on the role 13 years ago chairing the All-Party Group. I didn’t expect today when Labour members stand in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues and Jewish communities, to be targeted by an organisation called Momentum, which has happened to all of us who stood in solidarity, but worse than that that, explicitly targeting Jewish members of the Parliamentary Labour Party because they are Jewish. That is what is going on at the moment. I did not expect when I took on this voluntary cross-party role, for my wife to be sent by a Labour Marxist anti-Semite, a dead bird through the post, I didn’t expect my son after an Islamist death threat to open the door in the house as a school boy to the bomb squad. I didn’t expect my wife in the last few weeks from a leftist anti-Semite in response to the demonstration to be threatened with rape. I didn’t expect my daughter similarly to have to be rung up in the last few weeks by special branch to check out her movements in this country. No, I didn’t expect any of that.

“And I tell you the principles that we operated on. The very first speech that I made on this, 13 years ago in this chamber, that every party in this house should look after its own backyard first. And I have said that repeatedly on hundreds of occasions since and I have specifically in private letters to every party in this house, repeatedly challenged antisemitism in all parties. And for years action was taken, painful action and I am not sure people welcomed getting the letters and having the discussions with me in all parties, but that was the principle we operated on and we worked cross-party. And I recall that Jewish people used to say, “Is it true that there is a growth in anti-Semitism?”

“We identified 13 years ago the three forms of anti-Semitism. Islamist anti-Semitism, traditional right anti-Semitism and the anti-Semitism of the new left, all documented and discussed in here. It is not new. And those who say it is a smear, a smear, in raising this issue need to publicly apologise and publicly understand what they are doing and saying and the dangers.

“It does not end with me and my family, it does not end with British members of Parliament here, this stuff ends is what happened in Copenhagen, is what happens in Brussels, is what happened in France repeatedly including 4 weeks ago. People murdered because they are Jewish. That’s where this ends. You know this ends and this is the reality now.

“Last night in my constituency – it is constant, explicit anti-Semitism and then the bigger group. The excusers for anti-Semitism, the people who say this is something to do with who the leader of the Labour Party is and in challenging him. No it isn’t, in the 13 years I have been doing this, what Jewish people say to me now is different to what they said 13 years ago. “Is it true that there is a growth in anti-Semitism”, 5 years ago Jewish people would come up to me and say, “we’re concerned that there is a rise in anti-Semitism”.  I am stopped in the street everywhere I go now by Jewish people who say to me very discreetly, “I am scared”. Young people, old people, “I am scared”. You see what happened in France and you see what happened in Belgium and you see what happened in Copenhagen and then you understand why people are scared.

“People who are scared, young Jewish members to go to a Labour Party meeting with me because they are fearful of how they will be intimidated and threatened and how their identity will be challenged

“Any Jewish person is entitled to say and define that they are an anti-Zionist and I have no right to challenge that. Any Jewish person has the right to say, as the vast majority do, “I am a Zionist” and I have no right to deny them that and those that do are racists. And just that change in language by making the word ‘Zionist’ as a pejorative insult by the Labour Party, just that change, would alter the dialogue in this country in a very big way. We all have a choice on what we do, stand in solidarity with the Jewish members of Parliament under attack today, that is the role of Parliamentarians.”

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MPs are to debate claims that “foreign citizens are taking all our benefits” and immigrants are “trying to change UK into a Muslim country” on October 19.

Any parliamentary petition signed by more than 100,000 people becomes eligible for debate. But are the 186,174 signatures collected genuine?

The petition first appeared on a thread on Democracy Forum on August 26. When the poster first promoted the petition it had just 8 signatures. A day later, thanks to social media spamming, the number hit 1,000 signatures. As one poster reflected: “It’s now been shared on a few USA sites so hopefully will get a few more signatories”.

By 7pm on August 27, the user who shared the petition wrote: “1400 is a reasonable number considering the petition is only 3 days old”.

On September 3, a forum post confirmed that the petition had hit 8,000 signatures. But is that rise a product of online spam? Hours before that post, an individual in a 4chan discussion advocating the racist spamming of a pro-refugee petition wrote: “Guys 5,000 nearly signed this petition to end immigration to UK GET IN HERE, AND USE THE FROGS GENERATOR”.

Two days later and a new thread promoted a similar tactic. At this point the petition stood at 54,512 signatures. One reply included “reminder that British zip codes are weird as fuck so if you’re looking to flood, use something like this:EC1A 1BB”. Others wrote “remember to use a throwaway email generator”.

The discussion grew more toxic and soon individuals began to share racist and antisemitic memes. On September 6, one poster wrote:

“Btw, quick explanation. I think ours was started by some kid out west, which is why the wording is so retarded. The jews’ petition had a two week headstart on ours, which is the reason why they have so many more sigs. But if you look at sigs per hour, we are getting almost double, which was true even before this thread. During the day, we’re getting like 1,500 an hour.

Stop allowing immigrants into the UK.
>336 signatures in the last hour

Accept more asylum seekers and increase support for refugee migrants in the UK.
>160 signatures in the last hour”

Anoter user replied:

“>HOW TO SIGN
Use https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
for an instant email address >OUTSIDE OF UK? YOU CAN STILL VOTE

Just use this: https://www.doogal.co.uk/PostcodeGenerator.php
to generate a random post code, if you’re from UK just use your own, none of it is shown on the website.

Once it reaches a decent amount I will send an email into the daily mail and hopefully they’ll feature it, it’ll get the lefties spinning”.

Others directed links to websites that generate or list UK postcodes.

Media interest in the petition grew once it passed 100,000 signatures. BuzzFeed News interviewed its creator, 17-year-old Kieran Worrallo from Walsall in the West Midlands. He confirmed that the main statistic came from an internet page he could not verify. Nor did he evidence the wild claim about ‘Islamisation’.

The statistic originates from a 2013 Daily Express article headlined “EU: Britain will have 12 million more migrants by 2060“.

Labour MP Steve McCabe condemned the debate. He told the Birmingham Mail: “This highlights the problem with saying that if you have enough signatures on a petition then it will be debated. It is a licence for bigotry, and that is what we are witnessing here”.

It will include a speech from a government minister, from a Labour front-bench spokesperson, and also a spokesperson for the SNP. Backbench MPs are able to make speeches within the three hour slot in Westminster Hall.

Fraudulent signatures undermine the validity of parliamentary petitions.

The Petitions Committee have been approached for comment.

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Update: The Petitions Committee responded:

The new e-petitions site has been created to enable members of the public to petition the House of Commons and press for action from the government. Petitions should be signed by UK residents or British Citizens. We ask petitioners to confirm their details, including name, email address, and postcode. Much like the traditional paper petitioning system which asks people to provide an address and signature, the e-petitions system aims to strike a balance between allowing people to easily register their support for issues which are important to them, whilst discouraging dishonesty.

It is also worth pointing out that petitions are not automatically debated when they reach 100,000 signatures. The Petitions Committee meets weekly to consider each petition with over 100,000 signatures, before deciding whether to allocate a debate or not. This ensures that the issues put forward for debate are relevant, topical and have not been recently discussed in Parliament.