Left-Wing Equivalents to the Alt-Right Lie within the Poison of Antisemitism
By Jacob Richardson
The Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers effectively ended his career when, in writing about the BBC gender pay gap, he suggested that certain presenters were able to barter for higher salaries because of their Jewish backgrounds.
Myers did, after all, once himself as a Holocaust denier, so it is no surprise he would harbour antisemitic sentiments. What is bewildering is that the editors would view them as fit to print in the first place. It reflects a disturbing cultural problem in Britain.
Three years of polling commissioned by the Campaign Against Antisemitism has revealed that one-third of British Jews have considered leaving the UK in response to antisemitic discrimination.
Shockingly only 59% feel welcome in their country and a majority mistrust the Crown Prosecution Service to tackle antisemitic hate crimes, which this year have been the most on record.
The most sobering aspect of the CAA’s survey is that most British Jews are more concerned by antisemitism on the political left than the threat of the antisemitic far-right.
The Labour Party is by far seen as the political party most tolerant of antisemitism in its ranks. Chris Williamson, a shadow…
