Labour’s mission is to transform Britain. Don’t let bigotry get in the way | Owen Jones

The left must respond to fears about antisemitic abuse, and it will. But it has nothing to learn from the abusive right

The poison of antisemitism exists among a minority on the left; there is a wider group of people who deny it exists, or are even oblivious to what antisemitic tropes are, and refuse to educate themselves. There are also non-Jews who regard antisemitism as a useful tool, a convenient political device –and nothing else – to attack, undermine and demonise the Labour leadership and broader left. Both of these statements are inarguable, and both speak to the different political factions undermining the historic struggle to obliterate the disease of antisemitism.

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