The Corbynite revolution has made his party truly foul

IT’S the ultimate irony. When a Jew complains about the Labour Party’s attitude to anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbyn, it is the Jew who is purged.

The Corbynites who now control the Labour Party can put whatever spin on it they choose, but that’s the reality of what has happened to Michael Foster.

Mr Foster, a long-standing and generous donor to the party, as well as a recent Labour parliamentary candidate, is not a man to stand back and accept the foul behaviour of some of his fellow Labour members and their Momentum comrades.

His comparison of the tactics of the hard-Left to Nazi stormtroopers may have been more of a scream of anger than an academically rigorous description, but think about what lay behind it.

For months he has witnessed a series of Labour members exposed as anti-Semites.

He has seen the shocking antics of the Corbynite Momentum organisation, which is engaged in a takeover of the Labour Party.

And he has seen – and been the target of – the disgusting antiSemitic abuse which is now par for the course for anyone identified as a Jew on social media, almost always from people who express their support for Jeremy Corbyn.

In response, he has tried, tried and tried again to save the party he loves by demanding its leadership confronts this.

All to no avail. Is it any wonder his language was strident?

Nothing better illustrates why he is so angry at what is happening to the Labour Party than its response to his Mail on Sunday article. Instead of asking why a man who has spent his entire life serving the party should feel as he does, the party has suspended him.

That is a shocking message that everyone concerned with decency in politics should note.

Labour has shown that it is now, quite simply, an indecent party that punishes those who attempt to prevent that indecency.

Jeremy Corbyn protests that he has attempted to tackle antiSemitism. He says repeatedly that he instigated the report by Shami Chakrabarti, as if that demonstrates his bona fides.

But no one is taken in by any of this charade any more.

Ms Chakrabarti is now a widely

discredited figure, joining the Labour Party on the day she started her supposedly ‘independent’ report and then accepting a peerage from Mr Corbyn. She has been exposed as nothing more than a spokeswoman for Labour’s hard-Left leader.

The Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis put it well: ‘The credibility of her report lies in tatters and the Labour Party’s stated intention, to unequivocally tackle anti-Semitism, remains woefully unrealised.’

As for Jeremy Corbyn’s commitment to tackling antiSemitism: all one needs to know is that two weeks ago the Labour leader chose to share a platform with Jackie Walker. Ms Walker, you may recall, was suspended from the party for writing that Jews were the ‘chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade’.

As vice-chairman of Momentum, Ms Walker is a significant figure. It might have sent a powerful message had Labour decided that a woman with such views about Jews – historical bunkum, it should be said – was not welcome in the party.

Instead, it lifted her suspension – which sent a very different but no less powerful message. And then Mr Corbyn chose to address a Momentum rally two weeks ago, speaking alongside her.

Not that anyone should be surprised that the Labour leader keeps unsavoury company: in the past he has appeared alongside Hamas and Hezbollah representatives and referred to them as ‘friends’.

But the real story here is that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has now consciously decided that when a Jew points out that a cancer has taken hold, it should be the Jew, not the cancer, that is purged.

It seems scarcely possible that such a thing should be possible in the 21st Century, let alone in a party that once proudly fought prejudice.

But the Corbynite revolution has changed Labour into something truly foul.