One of Labor's remarkable generation of Jewish class warriors – along with the likes of Herschel Lewis Austin, Maurice Edelman and Ian Mikardo – in the 1930s Shinwell was in the vanguard of those fighting fascism. And never known to have let an anti-Semitic slur go unchallenged, in one House of Commons debate he famously slapped a Conservative MP, who'd told him to 'Go back to Poland'.

In the inter-war years the Left was a magnet for Jewish progressives and, post-1945, every Labor government and Shadow Cabinet included a clutch of eminent Jews as members or senior advisers.

From the premierships of Clement Attlee to Gordon Brown – via Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Tony Blair – Jews played key roles in shaping Britain's destiny. And, though Labor had its fair share of closet Antisemites, the least murmur of it was ruthless quashed.

Shamefully, today's leadership is a feeble shadow of its honorable past, the party's ranks now swelled by bigots, whose voguish anti-Zionism has morphed into vicious Jew-bashing.

Many believe the responsibility for this lies with Labor's 'accidental' leader, Jeremy Corbyn, an old-time, ultra-Leftist, fervent supporter of the Palestinian cause, self-proclaimed 'friend' of Hezbollah and Hamas, and associate of Holocaust deniers, like Paul Eisen.

Luciana's battle with UKLabor's Jew-haters