"[During the period Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party in the UK] Anecdotally [...] a lot of a people who were involved on the doorsteps and doing focus groups in parts of the country where there are no Jews were coming back and saying, "people are bringing this up without any prompting and people who can't even pronounce the word antisemitism are still managing to articulate that they are aware of it and they know it's bad thing."
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Dave Rich
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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