I take you back to the original, deliberately incendiary post by Yorky that Johnno took issue with. He replied to it and was then rounded on by the same old, same old bully boys that frequent this thread. Seems to me like he was set up. I fucking hate bullies. I do not profess to know much about the infighting going on over the anti semitism war raging within the labour party other than to understand there is a difference between being pro Palestine and against the State of Israel. Anyway, I took Johnno's advice and googled. I read a particular article and felt it credible enough to post. Apparently it's not credible? Fair enough. So, what is?
I didn't take much from yorky's post other than that the biggest and oldest Labour-affiliated Jewish group felt that things had improved for them in terms of hospitability within the Labour party. I'm not sure how that's provocative, but johnno responded with the post that I quoted above. I'm not sure how it directly relates to the letter, but what I took from johnno's post were the two points I listed above. Since I deemed I didn't know enough about the subject to ask about point one, I asked about point two instead.
Johnno's links were definitely not credible, nor was his original reply with a description but no sources. His subsequent post merely reiterated the first point I refer to above, that the identity of the person/group was what his post was about, rather than what they did. Note that I asked yorky for a source for his claim too, not just johnno. I gave up on evaluating sources after SP's post, which seems to me to better reflect the overall truth of the matter: barely anyone cares except those directly involved, so you're not likely to get unbiased sources.
I still think that journalistic standards are important to uphold in principle, as IMHO their decline in national media is what's ruining our democracy. If you're going to make factual claims, you should be able to back them up with credible sources. I hold myself to that standard, so I'm not being hypocritical.