OK, I feel the need to have a short thread on Labour and anti-semitism. I think we should think of this in the same way as we think of Catholicism and child sexual abuse. Hear me out.

There are probably only a minority of Labour supporters who are antisemitic. However, the organisation had a problem with antisemitism in its ranks and it failed to recognise it as a problem & address it & it even tried to deny, minimise & cover it up. That needs addressing.

In the same way, the vast majority of Catholics abhor child sexual abuse but the organisation had that abuse going on & it failed to address it and even tried to cover it up.

The ethical way to deal with this is to address institutional abuses transparently, apologise for them and fix them. The ethical way for the general public to behave is to expect & demand this & watch closely to see that it happens, but not write off whole organisations.

I was accused of antisemitism for voting Labour despite my loathing of Corbyn, but that was not remotely true. I probably worry more about antisemitism than other forms of racism because it is socially acceptable in ways that anti-Muslim bigotry or straightforward racism is not.