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March 1, 2023

The British Labor Party’s Anti-Semitism Crisis Was the Fault of the Soft Left as Well as the Hard

The party didn’t earn Luciana Berger’s forgiveness.

In 2019, four years after Jeremy Corbyn’s election to the Labor party’s leadership unleashed a torrent of anti-Semitism in its ranks, the MP Luciana Berger quit the party—driven out for being Jewish and for having the temerity to confront the anti-Semites. Since replacing Corbyn in 2020, Keir Starmer has striven to clean house, and recently issued a formal apology to Berger on Labor’s behalf, prompting her to rejoin in what Stephen Daisley terms “a supreme act of forgiveness.” Daisley provides some context:

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March 1, 2023

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