A review of Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It, David Renton (Routledge, 2021), £19.99Under the rather haughty title Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It, David Renton lays the primary blame for the antisemitism crisis at the door of the left. There are vital lessons to be drawn from Labour’s antisemitism crisis. Antisemitism as reactionary ideologyThe third and fundamental faultline of Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis is the framework Renton draws on for conceptualising antisemitism as ideology. Lessons for the leftRenton’s Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis is a developed rationale for political retreat and accommodation. However, here the Labour left finds itself in difficulty—to explain the left’s defeat in such terms runs counter to the entire logic of the Labour left project.

Source: The Guardian December 16, 2021 15:11 UTC