Those of us concerned about anti-Semitism in the Labour party will not be ignored any longer
Never again. Those were words that meant something once. But if the events of the last two years have shown us anything it is that in the Labour Party, even the hardest of lessons is too easily unlearned.
When my great uncle faced down Oswald Mosley at Cable Street, he was standing shoulder to shoulder with Communists and socialists of every stripe, who recognised the evil of anti-Semitism for what it is.
How times change. We are living in a time when Labour Party members share conspiracy theories about Israel being responsible for 9/11, accuse those who disagree with them of being on the CIA payroll, and question the facts of the Holocaust from the stage of our conference.
The abuse that I and other Jewish members have received is deplorable. One individual, after describing me as a “Yid piece of shit”, went on to suggest my rightful place was not in the Parliamentary Labour Party but at the end of a noose. Just last week I was contacted by a Jewish member who found herself harassed at a meeting by a fellow party member after she supported a motion calling for the Chakrabarti report to be enacted.
This hatred is now professed openly and in plain sight. A cursory glance at social media will show how far the poison has spread.
There was a time when the left’s response to fascists was “they shall not pass”. Today it feel more like “come on in”.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2018/03/those-us-concerned-about-anti-semitism-labour-party-will-not-be-ignored
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