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Hornsey & Wood Green Labour: fighting anti-semitism or faction fighting?
ANDREW MURRAY reports on an attempt to no-platform a Jewish speaker in one of Labour's north London strongholds as this proxy war between the left and right of the party rumbles on
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STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
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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