Norman G. Finkelstein talks Naz Shah MP, Ken Livingstone, and the Labour ‘antisemitism’ controversy.
The fact that there is a smear campaign against Corbyn's Labour doesn't mean there isn't real antisemitism.
Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters have been blamed for rising antisemitism in the Labour party. These claims are baseless.
The right of the Labour party is trying to smear the left as antisemitic. Their claims aren't matched by the evidence.
Only the left can confront left-wing anti-Semitism, and we will do so through reflection, not when criticism can be dismissed as a factional weapon.
Since 2000, the questions of Israel and antisemitism have become a source of ever greater conflict in British Jewry, as well as in other diaspora Jewish populations.
How did the struggle for Palestine gain such prominence on the left? The answer might tell us something about broader patterns of thought in left-wing politics today.
