The very most definitive answer, from a few days hence to the distant past, addressing this issue, by the most thorough scholar Norman Finkelstein.
Also quoted at Mondoweiss.
I've mostly focussed on the political angle, of the neoliberal Blairites, like their American counterparts, using identity politics to destroy leftism. This outer shell--and what some might call conspiracy theory (but in this case, widely recognized)--is not mentioned by Finkelstein. He sticks to the facts of the specific decision that will be made by the Labour Party soon.
He looks within the immediate issue, and finds the demand of what he calls British Jewry to be way beyond the pale in every way. They are attempting to define legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism.
I agree totally, and further that such free speech principles as the Labour party has had in the past ought apply even moreso in America, where they have been under similar attack.
Also quoted at Mondoweiss.
I've mostly focussed on the political angle, of the neoliberal Blairites, like their American counterparts, using identity politics to destroy leftism. This outer shell--and what some might call conspiracy theory (but in this case, widely recognized)--is not mentioned by Finkelstein. He sticks to the facts of the specific decision that will be made by the Labour Party soon.
He looks within the immediate issue, and finds the demand of what he calls British Jewry to be way beyond the pale in every way. They are attempting to define legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism.
I agree totally, and further that such free speech principles as the Labour party has had in the past ought apply even moreso in America, where they have been under similar attack.
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