The issue has resonance beyond Britain because racism is a more and more disturbing feature of contemporary European and American politics. Much of it is directed against Muslims and people of colour rather than Jews, especially immigrant communities and those claiming asylum. In response most of Europe’s surviving Jews became part of the successful struggle to create a national home in Israel. The party’s anti-semitism controversy has been driven not only by the ebb and flow of the Israeli-Palestinian issue but by hostility between centrist social democrats and left-wing socialists under Corbyn’s leadership. Most Jews do not live there and many do not accept its proclaimed credentials as their primary national home.

Source: The Irish Times September 09, 2018 23:03 UTC