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…
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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-antisemitism-mural-apology-a8274856.html
