I believe most Labour supporters are not antisemitic and suspect Labour’s antisemitism crisis would be cleared up in a long weekend of talking if it weren’t for the fact that the tiny minority of anti-Israelers who have bled into antisemitism hijack any critique of their position to claim it’s an attack on Corbyn.
For that matter, Corbyn strikes me as being yet another muddled pro-Palestinian who finds themselves on marches whose ostensible aim they agree with but inevitably has some pretty extreme antisemitic fringe elements because they’re there, they turn up, it’s hard to stop them from doing so. Problem is he has used that to burnish his credentials without thinking through what his co-presence looks like retrospectively, because he never expected to be in the position he now occupies.
I believe most Labour supporters are not antisemitic and suspect Labour’s antisemitism crisis would be cleared up in a long weekend of talking if it weren’t for the fact that the tiny minority of anti-Israelers who have bled into antisemitism hijack any critique of their position to claim it’s an attack on Corbyn.
For that matter, Corbyn strikes me as being yet another muddled pro-Palestinian who finds themselves on marches whose ostensible aim they agree with but inevitably has some pretty extreme antisemitic fringe elements because they’re there, they turn up, it’s hard to stop them from doing so. Problem is he has used that to burnish his credentials without thinking through what his co-presence looks like retrospectively, because he never expected to be in the position he now occupies.