This is (probably) positively (maybe), definitely (ish), my absolute (relatively) last (or thereabouts) post about anti-semitism in the Labour party. Not because its stopped with a massive bang as their esteemed leader banished it unambiguously from their midst, but because he hasn’t. And therefore it goes on and on and I don’t like repetition. I don’t like repetition. (As Trump would probably say it.)

Corbyn wrote a fairly decent SOUNDING apology in the Evening Standard on Monday. Sorry for offence caused, don’t know where its come from, horrible, can’t stand any form of racism, blah, blah, blah, and please vote Labour in next month’s local elections.

Words.

Though at least, and definitely a first, he actually did admit that there was something of a problem there. Ahhh, that’s a start, then let’s solve it.

Right, so along come two men called Jonathan to meet him. The leaders of 2 big and powerful Jewish groups. And they asked Jeremy to rebuild the ‘trust’. And there was trust. Before Corbyn there was always a strong link between jews and Labour. Stemming from the vast number of pre-and-post-war Jews adopting communism as being as far away from naziism as you could possibly get. But that trust is well and truly… errr… ‘fucked’ I think is the appropriate term here, by recent horrors not just in Labour but in each and every fringe leftish organisation who give Jezza his main and constant support. And who aren’t restricted by the need to get anyone to vote for them so they can really let rip. They can release their inner holocaust-deniers, paint their malicious jew-banker caricatures and give platforms to any rabid anti-zionist who preaches the destruction of not just Israel but all Jews.

But Jezza admits this may actually be a problem.

As one of the Jonathans pointed out: if he were to speak of this anti-semitism in the passionate tones he uses for Windrush, for Grenfell Tower, for all sorts of virtually everything, that would be a start.

They asked for several things. Adopting the definition of anti-semitism used by parliament and the courts. Hmmm, no, not sure we could do that. Ok, then how about preventing your members from sharing any platform with known anti-semites? Well, I couldn’t offer that guarantee. And so it went on. He agreed not one of their terms.

So Jeremy Corbyn is really really REALLY sorry (that he might have lost a few minority votes in Barnet) but is not actually prepared to take any meaningful action whatsoever about the evil in his party from inside and out. Nor, more importantly, address the fundamental question in my mind: why is there so much anti-semitism in the far left? Where did it start?

Happy Thursday

A xxxx