Last week I wrote a piece in the Forward criticizing the opponents of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, including much of the UK Jewish establishment, for using anti-Semitism as a political weapon against a leader who for many young Jews, represents the first hope for political change we’ve seen in this country. To me, none of…
It’s a very strange time to be a Jew in Britain. With the issue of anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party dominating the headlines for the last couple of weeks, we’ve now reached the point where arcane questions of Jewish communal politics are now of national interest. The latest example concerns Jewdas, an irreverent collective…
(JTA) — A British Labour Party leader has resigned after she called for the reinstatement of a City Council candidate accused of Holocaust denial. Christine Shawcroft, the chairwoman of the party’s disputes panel, said in a statement announcing her resignation that she was “wrong and misguided” when she sent an email calling for Peterborough City…
Following the conversation on social media about anti-Semitism, Jeremy Corbyn and the U.K. Labour Party, I wondered why it was that some people continue to have trouble seeing antisemitism as racism. Here are some of my thoughts as to why that might be so. Jews are perceived by some as powerful. Racism systematically oppresses the…
Here’s a thought experiment. Hang with it for a second, because it will help explain why some moderate Jews fear for the future of western democracy. So, here goes: What if a Democrat stood for election as president of the United States after presiding over the DNC and being minority leader of congress for three…
March has been a rough month for Jews. With a frequency that gave Trump administration departures a run for their money, March was filled with a stream of new reports of political leaders at home and abroad propagating or supporting anti-Semitism. On March 16, as snow hit the nation’s capital, Trayon White Sr., a Democratic…
I first voted in a UK General Election in 2005, the year after I left school. I remember various adults telling me grand things about democracy and its history in this great liberal nation. I remember walking into my local voting station, feeling very grown up, putting my X on the ballot paper and checking…
(JTA) — Approximately 2,000 people gathered outside the houses of Parliament in London to protest anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party. The protest Monday also criticized Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, whom British Jewish leaders have charged with enabling anti-Semitism in the party. Corbyn published a written apology ahead of the protest. Organized by Britain’s Jewish…
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