The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti‑Semitism per Nick Cohen's review of a new book on the matter in The Guardian

The Labour Party has a real problem with antisemitism, of that there's little doubt.

Do read Nick Cohen in The Guardian, here's an extract:

'... Labour has had to suspend 18 members, including one MP and a former mayor of London, because of their allegedly racist displays. Everywhere, "Zionist" and "Zio" are used to define Jews, and non-Jews who question left orthodoxy, as "the other": barely human monsters, who must be cast from the bounds of leftish society. The leader of the Labour party has defended supporters of every variety of ancient prejudice: the Palestinian activist who revived the medieval libel that Jews used the blood of Christian children to make bread; the Anglican vicar who promoted the views of modern neo-Nazis that the Jewish conspiracy was now so malign and supernaturally powerful it was responsible for 9/11.

After reviving old prejudices, Labour members adopt new ones just for fun. Jews were the chief financiers of the slave trade, they say as they repeat a fantasy promoted by the US race-huckster Louis Farrakhan. Jews collaborated with Hitler, they continue as they repeat the fantasies of 20th-century Marxist‑Leninists.

To get a bearing, imagine that Theresa May and leading members of the cabinet had endorsed the supporters and ideology of the Ku Klux Klan or Britain First, and then rewarded the chairwoman of a supposedly independent inquiry into rightwing racism with a peerage.'

More here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/13/the-lefts-jewish-problem-corbyn-israel-and-antisemitism-dave-rich-review

More antisemitism and equivocation about antisemitism in the Labour Party and its propaganda arm the BBC.