A video of Jeremy Corbyn criticising Zionists for lacking “English irony” has reignited the debate about antisemitism in the Labour party. Given that Shami Chakrabarti’s report into antisemitism warned about “Zionist” being used as a stand-in for “Jew”, there is rightly criticism of his language.
But the former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has won the hyperbole sweepstakes by branding the comments the most “offensive” by a British politician since Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” speech. The claim is as ridiculous as it is offensive – it takes a special kind of amnesia to forget just how racist and divisive that speech was.
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