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At a crucial meeting of Labor's ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), the Labor Leader is hoping to reach a deal on a definition of anti-Semitism.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
But in a move that will dismay Jewish groups and anger many Labor MPs, the executive is also expected to include a so-called free speech clause, allowing criticism of Israel.
Jewish groups are also dismayed by the re-election to Labor's national executive of A veteran left-winger who claimed the Jewish "Trump fanatics" were making up anti-Semitism allegations.
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Tea when the executive failed to adopt the IHRA's definition in full. That triggered the row in which lady veteran MP .
Even though a Labor Party investigation into her last month, Lady Hodge is still bitterly at odds with the Labor Leader and his allies.
And last week another veteran MP, After a training Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, compared Mr Corbyn's record on anti-Semitism to Enoch Powell.
The IHRA is 11 examples of anti-Semitism.
So far four of them have not been included in the Labor Party's code of conduct.
Image: Frank Field resigned the Labor bad last week
They are:
:: Accusing Jewish people being more loyal to Israel than their home country
:: Claiming that Israel's existence is a state is a racist endeavor
:: Requiring higher standards of behavior from Israel than other nations
:: Compare Israeli policies to those of the Nazis.
Emily Thornberry told Sky News: "I think this has been a collective mess.
"I think it is a question of decisions that have been made in the Labor Party, in the NEC, within the leadership. I think we should put our hands up to this. We have not handled it properly. The thing is, it's sickening what's now happening.
"The lack of trust between the Jewish community and the Labor Party is really dreadful. And we do not need to start working on it. You can lose trust in a moment.
Image: Emily Thornberry told Sky News: 'I think this has been a collective mess'
"Criticism of Israel can be used as a cover, Zionism can be used as a cover for deep-seated for anti-Semitism and we need to be aware of the fact that there are people in the labor Party, and Labor supporters, whose behavior and language is anti-Semitic. It is unacceptable.
"We need to make sure we have a working definition, we have a proper code, that we can start applying properly, and these people have no place in our party, and we need to start kicking them out."
Anti-Semitism campaigner Jonathan Hoffman called for the IHRA to be endorsed by the party's national executive, without any caveats, but said the Labor leader and his chief spin doctor could fall foul of that.
"If the Labor Party were to accept the IHRA definition in full, then Jeremy Corbyn and Seamus Milne and others would be in a great difficulty because you can point to any number of things they said to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism , He told Sky News.
But some Labor MPs who are critical of Mr Corbyn's leadership fear the anti-Semitism.
"Not only will the anti-Semitism row rumble on," Wes Streeting told Sky News, "[but] The Labor Party and the Confidence in the Labor Party among Britain's Jews will be exacerbated and I think the Conservatives to account. "
On the day MPs return to Westminster after their summer break, Labor is once again pre-occupied by anti-Semitism.
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