Labour pains
have been sealed off on the Israeli side. The tunnels are built so that Hamas militants can emerge within Gaza and engage with invading Israeli soldiers. Deborah Maccoby Leeds LS17
The fact that the Labour Party has largely become deathly quiet about Ms Chakrabarti’s “sensitive and carefully written document”, speaks volumes for how sensitive and carefully written it was. There will be some internal procedural and rule changes and that will be that. The pain that antisemitism creates, and the lack of acknowledgement of what racist hatred, bigotry and violence inevitably lead to were not written about. Like Chamberlain, the Labour Party has convinced itself that all is well. Lewis Herlitz Leigh on Sea Essex SS9