Jeremy Corbyn took too long to apologise for antisemitism within the Labour Party

There is the suspicion, well-attested by the Jewish voices rising up against this new “soft” persecution of them on social media especially, that too many people in the Labour Party do not understand the distinctions between antisemitism, anti-Zionism and opposition to the policies of the Israeli government in the Middle East. Overlaying that is a lazy and dangerous belief that all Jewish people everywhere offer unconditional or clandestine financial, political and diplomatic support to the state of Israel, either directly or through the United States, which appears to be exactly the beliefs portrayed in the east London mural.

And motivating much of their suspicions about Jewish people is a response to the plight of the Palestinian people. Some Labour members question the state of Israel’s right to exist in its current form and within its present borders. They can adopt that point of view as a matter of politics if they wish; but not use it to generate hostility towards individual Jews and Jewish groups, in Israel or outside it… read more:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-antisemitism-mural-apology-a8274856.html

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