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Margaret Hodge
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“They can't get a home for their children, they see black and ethnic minority communities moving in and they are angry [...] When I knock on doors I say to people, 'are you tempted to vote BNP?' and many, many, many - eight out of 10 of the white families - say 'yes'. That's something we have never seen before, in all my years. Even when people voted BNP, they used to be ashamed to vote BNP. Now they are not.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What has happened in Barking and Dagenham is the most rapid transformation of a community we have ever witnessed. Nowhere else has changed so fast. When I arrived in 1994, it was a predominantly white, working class area. Now, go through the middle of Barking and you could be in Camden or Brixton. That is the key thing that has created the environment the BNP has sought to exploit. ["Mrs Hodge claimed the anger is not down to racism"] It is a fear of change. It is gobsmacking change.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: White voters are deserting us for BNP, says Blair ally", The Telegraph (16 April 2006).
“At this moment of grave danger, we simply cannot allow the party to flounder, become utterly irrelevant to the political debate and disintegrate into a second-rate pressure group. Make no mistake — unless we listen to our voters, our party faces political oblivion.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After the no-confidence vote in Corbyn's Labour leadership, as cited in "Inside account of Labour MPs’ attacks on Jeremy Corbyn", Politico (27 June 2016)
“Within the Labour Party, we now have a culture which sadly has become embedded, which was allowed to drift from the fringes of the Labour Party into the heart of the party, which enables people to express anti-Semitism. Probably my talking to you this morning will fill my Twitter with abusive tweets which are basically anti-Semitic.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The terrible truth is that [Mr Corbyn] constantly makes himself the centre of the argument. What we need to root out is anti-Semitism, and for as long as he is one of the individuals who refuses to accept the extent of anti-Semitism in the party, who constantly says that people like me have been politically motivated and are attacking him personally instead of attacking the anti-Semitism that he expressly tolerates, and has allowed to spread right through the party - that's really the problem.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Today programme BBC Radio 4 (19 November 2020), as cited in "MP Dame Margaret Hodge reveals vile anti-Semitic abuse amid Jeremy Corbyn suspension row", Evening Standard (19 November 2020)
“[T]he government proposes to outsource the registration of companies to the professionals working in this space, like accountants, lawyers and company service providers. While most professionals act with integrity, it is people in these very jobs who have been responsible for creating the web of opaque corporate structures that obscure illicit financial flows. So why does the government refuse to put in place robust systems to regulate, check and discipline the professionals involved so that the few bad apples can be eliminated?”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The government has a golden opportunity to show zero tolerance for dirty money – they mustn’t squander it", The Times (13 December 2022)
“It was only because of his actions and his words that I came to the decision in 2018; this man was an antisemite and a racist.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking at the Jewish Labour Movement conference (8 January 2023), as cited in "Momentum founder refuses to apologise for 'hatred' of activists", The Jewish Chronicle (10 January 2023)[
“[After the 2019 general election] Had Corbyn won then, I think things would have been different; I couldn't have stayed in the party.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Is Labour never having a female leader "shameful"?] Yes. [...] Oh, it’s horrible. There’s still sexism, which is why you can never take your foot off the accelerator.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Margaret Hodge: Confronting anti-Semitism in Labour was harder than fighting the BNP", New Statesman (18 February 2023)
“Kishinev. Babi Yar. Munich. The sites of Jewish massacres throughout history. Now there is another place that will for ever be associated with the slaughter of innocent Jews: Kfar Aza. Kibbutz Kfar Aza was home to about 800 people and was established in 1951 by Jewish refugees from Morocco and Egypt (where I was born and from which my family escaped in 1949). Like so many kibbutzim, its founders were idealists, living communally on a model with socialist foundations. Its name – literally meaning "Gaza Village" – reflects its location, just over three miles from the city of Gaza.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On Saturday, the worst nightmares of the people of Kfar Aza were realised. A barrage of rockets sent men, women and children into their safe rooms. Then hundreds of Hamas terrorists breached the security barrier. A group of them, fully armed, went from house to house in Kfar Aza, searching for Jews to slaughter. People were burned alive in their homes and cars. Babies and young children were killed and mutilated. Others were dragged into Gaza as hostages. These heinous crimes are unspeakable, and yet we must speak them. The world must know what happened to the people of Kfar Aza.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Israel’s response to this terror must be resolute. But it must remain consistent with international law", The Guardian (14 October 2023)
“We as a nation should understand that how we treat those who escape from persecution and genocide is central to our reputation as a country that boasts a humanitarian approach to genocide and the Holocaust.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Told by leading Government politicians that they pose an "existential threat" to the West's way of life, that they are part of a "hurricane" of mass migration, that MPs feel "besieged by asylum seekers", and that asylum seekers are "invading" Britain. We should reflect on what we say and what we do today before we exercise any moral entitlement to condemn the atrocities of the past. The language we use today matters.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MP: Asylum seekers face similar hostile environment to 1940s Jewish refugees", The National (Glasgow, 25 January 2024)
“I am a secular, immigrant Jew. I have never been active in the Jewish community; my two marriages were to non-Jews. I have visited Israel a number of times and have been a vocal critic of successive Israeli governments on many counts. But I am a Jew. My grandmother and my uncle were murdered by Hitler and many cousins and other relatives were slaughtered in the gas chambers. Indeed, my grandfather was one of six siblings; we are the only surviving line left and that was because my parents were in Egypt when the war broke out. I joined the Labour party to fight racism. In the 1960s the Labour party was the natural home for Jews. To find myself 50 years later, in 2018, confronting antisemitism in my own party is completely and utterly awful.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I was right to confront Jeremy Corbyn over Labour’s antisemitism", The Guardian (18 July 2018)
“[T]wo of my granddaughters are of secondary school age, so they go to a single-sex girls secondary school. And because it's single-sex, there's a very large Muslim population there. The school originally put up some sort of display where they had an Israeli flag and a Palestinian flag. Good stuff. But the Muslim girls tore down the Israeli flag and replaced it with another Palestinian flag. So, only two Palestinian flags. The girls came home — they live next door to me — and they said, "We're not going to tell anybody we're Jewish." So then we had a bit of a discussion about that. They went back the next day and the one who is — she's just 12 — some of these Muslim girls came up to her and said: "Are you Jewish?" So she says, "Yes". So they said, "Which side are you on?" Terrible. So she sort of said, "I’m not on either side," and then they started poking her with a Palestinian flag.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'I Just Couldn’t Take It': How a Jewish Politician Decided to Confront Left-Wing Antisemitism", Politico (5 November 2023)