The internal Labour report is the one either you or Pan previously referenced, I'm just relaying its conclusion. On the other hand, the Institute for Jewish Policy Research study (linked in previous post) of British antisemitism indicates that among left-identifying individuals anti-Semitism is at worst of equivalent grade to that within broader society, at best lesser than that seen among right-identifying individuals. If you believe that contemporary Labour is anti-Semitic, then what is your concept of how this manifests? Is your position that the current Labour leadership is markedly more anti-Semitic than the general party membership, and that Labour defenders are more ideologically-committed to their position vis-a-vis the evidence on the subject than Labour detractors are? The evidence I have seen is not strong enough to accept such an interpretation (and therefore trying to rationalize it ex ante from some stereotypical concept of power relations among the Left is premature, besides being wrong for its own sake).
I appreciate your linked article speculating on the Labour defectors conflating anti-Israel with anti-Semitic in establishing their political commitments, but in the end it would take me too much time to figure out who's right or wrong on this single point.
Global terms, the collapse of traditional consensus and the feeling that the field of possibilities has opened up for any and all revisionism. Brexit is just one manifestation, but no one is immune.
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