antisemitism

Divisions tear through Labour on the eve of leadership vote

As members begin voting for the next Labour leader this week, debates about transphobia, Palestine solidarity and the party’s election defeat are raging, reports Nick Clark

Israel supporters are on a new offensive

The Witchhunt smearing anti-Zionists as antisemites has moved on to new targets

The Windermere Children

August, 1945. A coachload of children arrive at the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere, England.

Rules pushed by Labour right hit Palestine solidarity

Nick Clark looks at how the most recent antisemitism smears are playing out in the Labour leadership election

Antisemitism is a real danger—it comes from the right not the left

Right wingers will continue to use accusations of antisemitism against the left after the general election.

What's behind antisemitism slurs?

The Tories and the Blairites within the Labour Party quickly realised after Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader that the antisemitism slur was their most effective weapon against him.

Antisemitism fuelled by the right—not Labour

26 November 2019
Antisemitism is “sanctioned from the top”—but not, as the Chief Rabbi wrote this week, from the top of the Labour Party.

Why Roger Hallam was wrong about the Holocaust

22 November 2019
Hallam downplayed the Holocaust as “just another fuckery in human history” and “almost a normal event”.

Margaret Hodge faces reselection battle after vicious attacks on Jeremy Corbyn

01 October 2019

New book Bad News for Labour busts antisemitism claims

21 September 2019
A book on Labour, the media and antisemitism is both rigorous and accessible

Jeremy Corbyn faces more attacks for supporting Palestinian rights

23 July 2019
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing a mounting challenge against him from right wing MPs

Exclusive - the Steve Bell cartoons the Guardian refused to publish

17 July 2019
Socialist Worker exclusively publishes the Steve Bell cartoons the Guardian newspaper has refused to.

Labour right launches new attack over antisemitism claims

16 July 2019
Right wing Labour MPs launched a fresh assault on the left last week

Panorama programme on Labour was a shoddy attack on solidarity with Palestine

11 July 2019
The BBC Panorama documentary on Labour and antisemitism on Wednesday was a naked attack on solidarity with Palestinians and legitimate criticism of the Israeli state.

Protest after antisemitic attack in east London

09 July 2019
Supporters of Stand Up To Racism joined a protest in response to an antisemitic attack in Whitechapel, east London.

Exclusive - Chris Williamson MP calls for a ‘socialist government’ at Marxism 2019

06 July 2019
Suspended Labour MP Chris Williamson has called for a struggle to democratise the Labour Party “in order to democratise society”.

Left Labour joins in with right over Brexit and antisemitism smears

02 July 2019
Frail, weak and unprepared for the pressures of being in government. Not Jeremy Corbyn—the Labour left.

The right smear Corbyn because they hate his anti-imperialism

01 May 2019
The latest smear of antisemitism against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is another attempt to discredit the left and its opposition to war.

Richard Burgon is right to criticise Zionism

23 April 2019
Labour’s shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon has faced calls to resign for describing Zionism—the ideology that is used to justify Palestinian oppression—as “the enemy of peace”.

Antisemitism accusations designed to attack the left

05 March 2019
It’s open season on the left of the Labour Party as right wing Labour MPs campaign to portray their own party as riddled with antisemitism.