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September 1, 2016

The British Lawyer Who Whitewashed Labor’s Anti-Semitism in Exchange for a Peerage

And who doesn’t see Islamic terror as particularly perilous.

During her thirteen years as director of a prominent British civil-liberties organization, Shami Chakrabarti never gave the impression “that she had any solution to the problem of Islamic terror—or even that she viewed it as particularly perilous,” writes Jonathan Neumann. She left that position earlier this year to chair the Labor party’s inquiry into anti-Semitism in its ranks, producing a report incapable even of acknowledging the pervasiveness of the disease. And then, Neumann writes, there is also the appearance of impropriety:

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