Berger had checked out as a Labour MP months ago, presumably to spend her time cooking this shit show up.
I would charitably say he doesn't care about antisemitism, or doesn't take it seriously. A lot of his supporters and allies engage in unapologetic antisemitism and he rarely acts appropriately when they do.
Turns out reforming your party leadership process into a system where your far faction can lock down control is a really bad idea and leads to even more extreme responses as a result.
Its utterly pathetic. The biggest socioeconomic upheaval in a generation is rapidly approaching and politicians all over the country are just trying to look busy so in the decades to come they have a cover story when asked what did they do to try and stop Brexit.
Me neither, it's quite sad that being concerned about antisemitism is seen as some as a right-wing position to take.
This is basically true. Corbyn's a Brexit supporter representing a party that's about 70/30 in favor of remain. This has happened because when they tried to reform their internal party election mechanisms to be more "open" years back they accidentally did the opposite and made it so a smaller, enthusiastic faction could lock down support, much like how the US Caucus states favor intensity. There was a no confidence vote prior to the snap elections that he lost, but he didn't have to step down because when they had written the rules, the idea of anyone NOT stepping down after one was viewed as a non-possibility.
You know nothing about me and I have no interest in justifying myself to you, but you do not have to be an antifascist campaigner to criticise those who dismiss or engage in antisemitism, regardless of the label they put on their politics.
Blair tapped into the general voters misgivings with Tory Britain at the time and promised a lot of people-pleasing things (which were generally underbaked when delivered), and the Conservatives during this period were ridiculously ineffectual with a string of poor leaders so never really appealed to the general population.
