- Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:13 pm
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Far left groupings have long made common cause with the Palestinian rights movement and opposed the Israeli state and its policies of oppression against the Palestinian people. There have been instances of the unfortunate conflation of anti-zionism and anti-semitism, but also no shortage of instances of actual anti-semitism.
Historically the Labour Party, until around the mid 1980s, was broadly speaking pro-Israel, but from then until, say, 2015, similar instances occurred actually within the party, though not in significant volumes.
Can it be a mere coincidence that the number of incidences of manifestations of anti-semitism within the Labour Party increased exponentially with the entry into the party, prompted by the ascent to the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, of thousands of former tankies, SWP types, the WRP, Socialist Organiser devotees, and former communists?
"The opportunity to serve our country. That is all we ask." John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party, 10 May 1994.