The Left’s long history of antisemitism

Mar 4, 2019 by

by James Bloodworth, UnHerd:

The hard-Left has achieved something the far-Right has been trying to achieve for many years: it has made antisemitism acceptable.

Until recently such a statement would have seemed far-fetched. Yet the applause that greeted Labour MP Chris Williamson as he informed an audience of Momentum activists that his party had been “too apologetic” in its approach to antisemitism proves otherwise.

Labour has since, reluctantly, suspended Williamson, reversing an initial decision not to after a backlash by MPs and the deputy Labour leader.

Despite the retrospective distancing exercise by Left-wing commentators, the Labour MP for Derby North is really an outrider for the Labour leadership. He is a one-man basket of atrocious opinions, but they are opinions that chime with the hard-Left milieu from which Corbyn himself emerged. Williamson has defended the dictatorship in Cuba. He has denied that people in Venezuela – who are currently facing an economic catastrophe – are “genuinely starving”. And he has promoted a pro-Assadist blogger who called the murdered MP Jo Cox a “warmongering Blairite”.

It is difficult to decide which of these is the more monstrous opinion to hold let alone to espouse, but it seems reasonable to suggest that a political party that was not undergoing a profound moral crisis would seek to drive someone who held such views to the margins. Instead – even as the latest scandal surrounding antisemitism unfolds – it has been reported that Jeremy Corbyn “did all he could” to stop Williamson from being suspended by the Labour Party.

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