Britain’s left pays the price for flirting with anti-Semitism
The charge of anti-Semitism has roiled the British Labour Party, once one of Israel’s staunchest supporters. Party members tended to think anti-Semitism was a disease of the right. Now, it’s become the reverse.
Both prominent figures and ordinary members have been suspended from membership and from posts on suspicion of this form of racism, as the leftist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, seeks to stamp out a theme that has had the governing Conservatives crowing with schadenfreude. Jewish supporters are deserting the party and members are forced to protest their aversion to one of the world's oldest prejudices.
The issue came to light after Ken Livingstone, a former mayor of London, stirred up a storm last month by suggesting that Hitler was a Zionist (for considering a plan to ship German Jews to Palestine).… Seguir leyendo »