i have been in the labour party for half my adult life and the trade union movement for all of it. i have not witnessed any anti-semitism and am at a loss to understand what the current tedious nit-picking is referring to.
i do understand the reasons for all the nonsense though - quite clearly jeremy corbyn presents a real danger to the status quo of unqualified support for the illegal israeli occupation and dreadful treatment of its citizens and neighbours. also it is a very convenient theme to try to distract attention from the mess of the government we have now and in particular their appalling windrush behaviour.

some labour mps love to join in to discredit their leader and the party and then have the nerve to bleat about deselection.

i don't know why i'm writing this stuff again - if people aren't going to see the bleedin' obvious the first time then they will never do so after subsequent retellings.

as this subject seems to be slipping out of view - (no doubt the press will find somethings else soon (probably the deselection of st frank of hypocrisy)) - maybe we should just pack it in on this site. lots of sound and fury and some creditable detailed research but i'll bet none of us has learned anything new and not one of our closed minds has been opened even a little.

move on please. there is plenty of other stuff to squabble about - austerity and 4 million children who we can't afford to feed properly anyone?