Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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HERE is a story about the Labour Party, Jewish people and anti-semitism. It features no actual anti-semites and ostensibly arises from a situation on which all protagonists appear to be more or less in agreement.
But it ends in this: the day before Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) a Jewish woman started to address a meeting of her local Labour Party on the subject of how Jewish women had resisted the Holocaust, whereupon around one-third of the meeting walked out.
So this is a parable of the politics of anti-semitism in and around the Labour Party in the post-Corbyn era. A story of factionalism trumping decency, of divisions within the Jewish community and ultimately of good people doing bad things.
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Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
