The Guardian: In a major policy development, the Malaysian government has cancelled the Government-to-Government (G2G) Plus recruitment system in a bid to stop the ‘syndicated monopoly business’ in recruiting migrant workers from Bangladesh.
Jeremy Corbyn has been made the subject of an official complaint to the Labour party over his suggestion in 2013 that some British Zionists do not understand “English irony”.
The Labour leader has since sought to clarify the remarks, which have ensured that the party remains embroiled in a row over its attitude towards antisemitism that has dragged on for months. Some MPs and peers are understood to be discussing the possibility of a kind of split, with one faction awaiting the outcome of the party’s handling of Brexit to decide what to do next.
Speaking at a London conference five years ago, Corbyn was recorded saying that a group of Zionists had no sense of irony, despite “having lived in this country for a very long time”. The comments angered some of his MPs and led one to say she felt “unwelcome in my own party”.
Corbyn said he had used the term Zionist “in the accurate political sense and not as a euphemism for Jewish people” and that he was defending the Palestinian ambassador from “deliberate misrepresentations” by people “for whom English was a first language, when it isn’t for the ambassador”. However, he also committed to being “more careful” with the language he used.