Some interesting things going on in the Labour movement. Shows how a tiny bit of leadership (shown by leadership candidates but obviously not the actual leader) can send antisemitism deniers into a complete panic
The pledge which has caused the most controversy is the one which requires the party to engage with mainstream Jewish representative orgs and, implicitly, not JVL who are the focus of this front page. This is right - JVL have played a pernicious role in this sad affair
Any leader who takes this issue seriously must disassociat from them and any other orgs which have perpetrated the denial narrative. Labour Representative Committee, Lab against the witch hunt etc. The problem for the ‘labour left’ is these are part of their institutional fabric
And that will make people think this is a factional attack - which conforms with their view of this whole issue being about factionalism. But that’s the wrong way round, it is the organisations themselves and their noxious approach to this issue which are the problem
