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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
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
STEPHEN ARNELL looks at some of the notorious political corruption cases from British history
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
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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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