The Antisemitism barometer

For decades many people thought that antisemitism had been so throroughly discredited by the crimes of the Nazis that it was no longer a serious problem.

Unfortunately, as Andrew Neil pointed out in his powerful speech on Monday which you can watch or read by clicking on the links in a post on this blog yesterday, that view may or may not have been justified in the immediate aftermath of World War II but it is not true today. The great majority of the British people firmly reject racism in all its forms including antisemitism, but this pernicious form of racism still exists and needs to be challenged and fought against more vigorously than is sometimes the case.

Following on from that post, here is a graphic showing the results of a YouGov survey of 2058 British Jews, commissioned by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) in which they were asked to what extent the main political parties in Britain harbour antisemites among their MPs, members and supporters.



Even the party which comes best out of this - the Conservative party with "only" 19% of Jewish people thinking that the party's MPs, members and supporters include antisemites - cannot possibly be satisfied or complacent that nearly a fifth of Jewish people in the survey held that opinion.

For the SNP, Liberal Democrats, Greens and UKIP those figures are significantly worse.

But every decent member of the Labour party should hang their head in shame at the finding that no less than 83% of British Jews surveyed felt that the Labour party includes antisemites among it's MPs, members and supporters.


Blaming the media, which is the default Momentum response to any embarrassing criticism, just will not cut it in this case.

Here is a link to a page on the "Campaign against Antisemitism" website in which they discuss the responses of all the main political parties to questions the campaign had asked them and complaints the organisation has made.

https://antisemitism.uk/politics/

And here is a link to the research supporting the "barometer" referred to above.

https://antisemitism.uk/barometer/

I don't believe that any reasonably fair-minded person of average or above average intelligence can read this data without concluding that all Britain's political parties need to do more and the Labour party has a serious problem.

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