Interesting piece by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown from April 24 - the whole thing is worth reading (give it a google) but here's a chunk of it that got me musing:

Antisemitism on the left, yes — but Tories have their own problems with both Jews and Muslims

YouGov polls done in 2015 and again in 2017 found that Tory voters are more likely to hold negative views about Jews than Labour voters. For example, in 2015, 31% Conservatives thought Jews chase money more than other Britons. In 2017, the figure went down to 22%. For Labour the figures were 22% and 14%. A 2017 study looking at British attitudes towards Jews by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research found that 30% of the general population hold at least one ‘anti-Semitic attitude’. Figures on the left are similar to or below the population mean, while those on the right are significantly more likely to hold at least one anti-Semitic attitude. Such facts do not stop the oft repeated accusations against the left.

It strikes me that we hear an awful lot from Labour Friends of Israel and the Board of Deputies, etc., but very little from the Tories about "Labour's antisemitism problem." I strongly suspect that the Tories think that they have a sleeping dog that they'd rather not see stirred too much, especially considering the threat of its compounding their total brexit balls-up. Whilst I regard the Skripal thing as off-topic in this thread, there is, to my way of thinking, a tenuous link to the other political shenanigans of the day. Labour is paralysed over brexit, to their huge discredit in my view, and has let this bogus antisemitism issue engulf them instead of coming out and exposing their attackers for the utter frauds that they are. So Labour doesn't look good. And the Tories definitely don't look good. So what do you do when things are bad at home? Well you could always start a war, as Maggie did for example, or, failing that, show your people how rotten Johnny Foreigner is. Now I don't know whether these two blokes painted stuff on that doorknob or not. I've seen the CCTV snapshots and read about their trail from Gatwick to Bow to Salisbury to Bow to Salisbury to Gatwick. Two scruffy blokes strolling around invariably looking relaxed and as uncloak-and-dagger as you could wish for. The assistant commissioner has claimed that he has enough evidence to charge them with conspiracy to murder, etc. Well I don't think he has. I think he has enough evidence, if only he could lay his hands on them, merely to ask them some awkward questions. Instead, we have the spectacle of a belly-up Theresa May expressing unjustifiable certainties (which would preclude a fair trial in any case - that particular bridge is well and truly burned) and even blaming Putin. Thing is, they can't lay their hands on these blokes. That's one certainty, probably the only one. In a way, that puts May in the rather luxurious position of being able to say what the hell she likes about those damn Ruskies, in full knowledge that she can never be brought to account by due process throwing up a whole bunch of really awkward doubts about these two chaps. Good, eh?

Incidentally, I obtained a copy of yesterday's Daily Mail (I did NOT pay for it!). While the rest of media were in hysterics over Corbyn's "caveat," the Mail had nothing to say about it at all until page 16. I wonder how many Mail readers ever get that far... Of course, the Mail couldn't NOT report it, as that would have been distinctly odd, but it was well and truly relegated. Then I remembered that this paper once stood up for the man who murdered six million Jews...