"[T]he really damaging evidence was heard from several Jewish Labour members of Parliament on a dramatic recent afternoon in the Commons. Dame Margaret Hodge is a much-respected veteran MP, daughter of Jewish refugees (twice over, fleeing Germany and then Egypt), and niece of an uncle murdered at Auschwitz. "I have never felt as nervous and frightened as I feel today about being a Jew," she said on April 17 [2018]. "It feels that my party has given permission for anti-Semitism to go unchallenged." More chilling still was Ruth Smeeth's account. She said that she used to expect crazy Jew-hate mail from the right, but now it comes from the left as well, by way of social media: "Hang yourself you vile treacherous Zionist Tory filth, you're a cancer of humanity…Zionist hag bitch Ruth Smeeth." While Labour MPs loudly applauded Hodge, Smeeth, and their colleagues, Corbyn didn't stay to hear the debate, which was an unmistakable condemnation of his leadership."
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft "Bad Company", The New York Review of Books (28 June 2018).
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