On Thursday the supposedly resurgent Labour party lost control of Brighton and Hove, one of its few centres of power in southern England, because of the endemic anti-Semitism on the left. The fate of the local Labour group shows in microcosm the problem facing the Labour leadership nationally as it struggles to pull the party away from being the natural home for creeps and conspiracy theorists.
There are just so many of them. And they will give up anything before they give up their fantasies of supernatural Jewish power.
Take Brighton and Hove, where the Greens have just assumed leadership of the council, as anti-Semitism allegations shrunk the Labour ranks. Councillor Nikki Brennan resigned after a picture emerged of her condemning Israel as a ‘racist apartheid state,’ which I would say is a point of view that may become a statement of fact if Benjamin Netanyahu annexes parts of the West Bank and refuses to give Palestinians under his control the rights of full Israeli citizens.
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