r their own purposes.’ It is thus here – at the intersection of antisemitic antizionism and traditional Judeophobia, where leftists are overrepresented – that the true source of the Labour antisemitism crisis is to be found. It is not an import from the right, or a random statistical quirk, but rather a homegrown problem with roots that are specific to the left. […]
The alternative to condemning British Jews to the status of fools at best, or liars and propagandists at worst, is for the left to acknowledge that the way it has long understood antisemitism, Israel, and the idea of Jewish nationhood is not only historically and conceptually flawed but is itself tainted with antisemitism. But this would mean challenging not just axiomatic beliefs about Israel but an entire worldview, one built on conspiracy, irrationality and projection. Corbyn’s statement and ongoing refusal to withdraw it is thus as much a defence of this ideological edifice as it is an evasion of his responsibility for the crisis.
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