Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party leader, has caused uproar in Britain by admitting that four years ago he laid a wreath at a Palestinian cemetery in Tunis that contains the bodies of several alleged terrorists, including the mastermind of the Munich Olympic massacre of 11 Israeli athletes in 1972.
Mr Corbyn’s admission has provoked new accusations that he is hostile to Jews and that anti-Semitism has now taken root in the Labour party. The deputy leader of Britain’s Labour party, the official opposition to the government, said recently that the party would “disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment” unless it dealt robustly with anti-Semitism.
Such a charge, in an established democracy in the 21st century, seems startling. How could a party that for years campaigned for human rights, racial equality and an end to discrimination be struggling to throw off charges of anti-Semitism?
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