We have faced varying degrees of hostility and manipulation. But let’s not pretend Corbyn’s Labour invented antisemitism
It is utterly bewildering that Labour MPs and journalists thought it was fine to distinguish bad Jews from good this week, as a way to discredit Jeremy Corbyn’s Passover meeting with the radical London-based group Jewdas. These voices said the Jewish community organisation, friendly to the Labour leader, was the wrong kind of Jew. Yet other Jewish groups – those critical of the Labour leader – had until then refused to meet with him unconditionally. It wasn’t him refusing to meet them.
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With a resurgent far right, we are witnessing a type of antisemitism that many thought would never again resurface
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