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TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a meticulous account of the campaign that brought down Jeremy Corbyn
CONCERTED AND WELL-FINANCED: A convoy of mobile billboards with anti-Corbyn slogans drives past the Houses or Parliament in London on April 17 2018

Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn
Asa Winstanley, OR Books, £14.99

IN this meticulously researched book, journalist Asa Winstanley probes a taboo topic avoided by the mainstream press and even by some stalwart left-wing activists. 

Weaponising Anti-Semitism describes how numerous Labour Party activists and former leader Jeremy Corbyn were falsely accused of being anti-semites or tolerating anti-semitism. Winstanley dismantles these allegations piece by piece and dispels the myth that anti-semitism was in any way endemic within Labour under Corbyn’s leadership. 

The author cuts through aspersions and accusations with facts.

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