"For example, in the Labour code it is no longer likely to be antisemitic "to accuse Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations". The code simply says this is "wrong", as if imprecise or uncivil language is the problem, rather than the prevalence of antisemitic attitudes. Yet this charge, that Jews cannot be trusted or must always be suspected of having a hidden agenda, is central to the old-fashioned, rightwing antisemitism that the Labour party claims to oppose. Similarly, the IHRA definition says it is antisemitic to compare Israel to Nazi Germany, but Labour's code says this is only the case if there is "evidence of antisemitic intent": a caveat it attaches to all "contentious views" relating to Israel."
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Dave Rich is Head of Policy at the Community Security Trust. He is an associate research fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (part of Birkbeck, University of London), where he completed his PhD, after graduating from the London School of Economics with a degree in history and politics. Rich's first book The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti‑Semitism (2016), began as his doctoral dissertation. Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world was
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