Labour’s summer of disgrace
IN JULY, the Labour leadership comes in for fierce criticism after deciding against fully adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. JEWISH Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge calls Mr Corbyn an ‘anti-Semitic racist’. A party disciplinary probe is later dropped. CORBYN ally Peter Willsman has to apologise after being taped ranting that ‘Jewish Trump fanatics’ invented the anti-Semitism storm engulfing Labour.
IN AUGUST, Corbyn is engulfed in worldwide condemnation after the Mail publishes a photo of him posing with a wreath beside the graves of Palestinians linked to the 1972 Munich massacre, left. His office says he ‘did not lay any wreath at the graves’ of anyone accused of being behind the massacre. MR CORBYN calls for a boycott of all goods from Israel. FOOTAGE emerges of Mr Corbyn attacking British ‘Zionists’ in 2013. Former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks denounces him as an ‘anti-Semite’ and the ‘most offensive’ British politician since Enoch Powell. VETERAN MP Frank Field resigns the party whip, accusing Mr Corbyn of transforming the party into a ‘force for anti-Semitism in British politics’. LABOUR grandees Gordon Brown and Tony Blair condemn the handling of the anti-Semitism row.