Sooner than I thought and not as many as I feared, but the entire antisemitism thing is just playing endlessly. Even though I actually tried to uncritically look into this and there's just... just nothing.
Particularly considering how antisemitism is baked into alt-right thinking and has become horrifyingly mainstream. Just replace the word globalist with Jew and you have a tale as old as time.
@CountScrofula Yes, I looked for evidence of the abuse. All I could find was that one local party member calmed her a Zionist on social media. Given that she is an ex director of labour friend's of Israel, its not much of a stretch. I think we need to be careful about the use of the term Zionist but it's a huge stretch to see that as an abuse campaign.
I was debating this with a Liberal frenemy on WhatsApp today and I asked for his evidence. He provided a link to someone who has been prosecuted but the article clearly had all over it evidence that this guy was far right. Corbynistas don't have much time for a website called stormfront. He then tried to conflate anti semetism on the left with this but its weak stuff. I politely pointed out that left activists will make up the bulk of the upcoming protest against Tommy Robinson, including some who have been accused of anti semetism. The centrist splitters won't be at that demo.
@Burnley123 If you can, look up the diary column in last week’s Spectator by the Labour MP Jess Phillips.
More generally, many people, myself included, regard anti-Zionism (ie opposition to the existence of the state of Israel) as tantamount to anti-semitism. Obviously some will dispute that. But I think that difference of opinion helps to explain the current problem in the Labour Party, with some people convinced that the party is anti-semitic, while others, probably including J Corbyn, genuinely don’t understand what the fuss is about.
@MartinII It is that but it also follows the pattern of last few years where the party MPs have worked to undermine corbyn. They tried to get rid of him but the membership, myself included, fought to keep him and succeeded.
It leaves labour divided because the rest of the MPs will blame corbyn as much as the splitters.
