JEREMY CORBYN’S prompt apology for having hosted Holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer at a House of Commons meeting in 2010, acknowledging it is wrong to compare nazi Germany with apartheid Israel, ought to be accepted.
It won’t, because Corbyn’s opponents inside Labour and without are set on forcing unconditional acceptance of an interpretation of anti-semitism that minimises criticism of Israel.
The case put forward by Meyer at the Holocaust Remembrance Day hosted by Corbyn was that the slogan Never Again should apply not solely to eradication of Jews but Palestinians too.
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a methodical unmasking of the US media’s complicity in the Israeli genocide, that should be a template for what’s needed to bring Britain’s corporate media to book
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state