"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Labour left's personalised critique of capitalism as conspiracy encourages anti-semitic tropes.
Until his welcome intervention on Monday afternoon, the debate over Labour and anti-semitism, which has been rumbling on since Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership victory in 2015, seemed to have reached a tipping point. There has been widespread revulsion at Corbyn’s defence of a virulently anti-semitic graffiti artist, and contempt for his excuses for doing so: that he was merely defending the right to free speech and had, unfortunately, failed to examine the picture closely enough. [...]
