Peter Rupert William Willsman was born on February 1944 and is a British political activist who was a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee and the secretary of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy.
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14 Facts About Peter Willsman
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Peter Willsman was suspended from the Labour Party and the NEC in May 2019, pending investigation, after publicity over making allegedly antisemitic comments.
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Peter Willsman worked for the National Union of Public Employees as a researcher.
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Every year between 1981 and 1994, Peter Willsman was elected onto the Labour Party's Conference Arrangements Committee.
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Peter Willsman was described as one of the left wing of the party's "key strategists" in 1981, having focused on party constitutional issues rather than ideological issues.
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Peter Willsman has been a long-term, though intermittent, member of Labour's ruling body, the National Executive Committee.
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Peter Willsman was first elected in 1998 on a Grassroots Alliance slate.
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In July 2018, Peter Willsman was recorded during an NEC discussion on the party's disciplinary code and antisemitism as saying that he had "never seen" antisemitism in the Labour Party.
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Peter Willsman claimed that those making the accusations were "Trump fanatics" who were "making up duff information without any evidence at all".
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Peter Willsman was criticised by The Guardian and some Labour politicians, Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, called for Willsman to be expelled and the Jewish Labour Movement made a formal complaint.
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Peter Willsman came in ninth place and was re-elected in the expanded section representing members: when other members of the Momentum slate asked him to resign given the late withdrawal of Momentum's endorsement, Willsman declined.
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In May 2019, a recording of Peter Willsman emerged from an informal conversation he had had with Israeli-American undercover author Tuvia Tenenbom in January 2019, which Peter Willsman had been unaware was being recorded.
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Peter Willsman's comments were widely condemned, with several members of the NEC and Labour MPs calling for his expulsion.
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Later that month, Peter Willsman was suspended from the party over the allegation, pending investigation.
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