Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis alleges there is a crisis of antisemitism in the Labour Party, and urges readers ‘to study what has been unfolding’.
Alan Maddison and I did just this, and we found that the evidence does not support Mirvis:
Faced with claims that Labour antisemitism poses an existential threat to Jews, on the one side, and arguments that antisemitism is neither widespread nor institutionalised in the party, on the other, it might be tempting to split the difference and assume that the truth lies somewhere in between. But those who care about the fight against antisemitism and other forms of bigotry should avoid this lazy assumption and look instead at the data.
There were no witches in Salem; Jewish elders did not gather in a graveyard at night; a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy did not target Nazi Germany. The allegation that Labour is rife with antisemitism is of a piece with these fantastic antecedents. To judge by the available evidence, the truth of this controversy lies not in the middle but at one pole: there is no ‘Labour antisemitism crisis’.
Read the full article at Jewish Voice for Labour.
Jamie Stern-Weiner 
Your article, in my view, is comprehensive, definitive and quietly, politely scathing. Thank you.
FWIW, this secular Jew is supporting the Labour Party and I put my postal vote in the mail this lunchtime.
Howard
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