My view is that there is probably just as much anti-Jewish animus in the Conservative Party if not more than in the Labour Party. The fact that some anti-Labour newspapers have chosen to give this big headlines has to be party political as much as it is anything else.

I do know of Jewish Labour Party members who get fed up of its being automatically assumed that they are zionists simply because they are Jewish and who feel that this is antisemitic.

I was not intending to state that the purpose or the whole purpose of this document is to protect 'extreme Zionist action', though I would imagine that, given the debates I have heard, it would not surprise me if the definition, being, as I do accept, legally unsatisfactory in its detail, might be used in an attempt to support that purpose should such a thing take place.

I was simply trying to make the point that there has been discussion of the definition, and citing examples. I did not necessarily mean to imply approval or disapproval, though if Robertson says something is legally not quite good enough I am tempted to think he may be right.


I certainly do not subscribe to the view that there is no such thing as anti-semitism and that all those who work against it are motivated solely by a hatred of Corbyn and a desire to subvert criticism of Israel.

Apols if my intention did not come across clearly.