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September 28, 2017

The Anti-Semites Carry the Day in the UK’s Labor Party

An attempt to condemn anti-Semites provokes an ugly backlash.

At a conference of the British Labor party on Tuesday, one item on the agenda was a proposal for a better system for punishing anti-Semitism in the party ranks—of which there has lately been no shortage. The proposal, supported by the party’s leadership, was supposed to receive a rubber-stamp vote; instead it provoked an eruption of anti-Jewish rhetoric, and the vote eventually had to be postponed. Marcus Dysch describes the scene:

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