Iran Won’t Renew Its Nuclear Deal with the U.S. under Any Circumstances
Adopt Reagan’s dictum: we win; they lose.
March 23, 2020
A Collection of Apologias for the British Labor Party’s Anti-Semitism Exposes the Depths of the Problem It Denies
“Just because I think Jews are cheap doesn’t mean I’m an anti-Semite.”
Published in December last year, Anti-Semitism and the Labor Party is a collection of essays meant to serve as “a sober examination of the strange events that have warped British politics since 2015,” combined with the personal testimonies of 21 party members. The “strange events” in question are not the public and private statements of influential Labor figures—starting with the party leader Jeremy Corbyn—about sinister Jewish influence and other fabricated outrages but the reactions to these statements on the part of the media, Jewish leaders, and some moderate Laborites. Reviewing the volume, Sarah Brown notes that some of the authors slip easily from defending against accusations of anti-Semitism to defending hatred of Jews on the merits:
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A Collection of Apologias for the British Labor Party’s Anti-Semitism Exposes the Depths of the Problem It Denies
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