Whatever your opinion on the last 24 hours of the Labour Party, I hope you will acknowledge that there is a problem with antisemitism in the party and on the wider left. Admitting that gives the left integrity and makes it stronger, not weaker.

Antisemitism doesn't simply exist in the party because it exists everywhere: it has become a specific, febrile problem precisely because the party has been going through an antisemitism crisis that brought the issue to the surface. It has its own qualities and characteristics.

I saw too many examples of members responding in ways that were crass and dismissive when Jewish people tried to share their experiences, even if those members themselves weren't repeating antisemitic tropes. It became a cultural problem in the party.

The Labour leadership melodrama aside, I hope we on the left reflect on what kind of movement we want to be. Part of this means admitting that we did collectively mess up our response to this issue. That's the case regardless of the cynical ways it was weaponised by others.

It also means shutting down the idea that if this crisis had focused on another minority, it would have been handled better. That's not true unfortunately. The left needs to work on its anti-racism politics across the board. We need to be honest about that too.

Finally, I found the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn disappointing purely because it has made this very important issue all about him and not about us and our movement.

I hope we put our heads together and think about how to strategically address the problem of antisemitism on the left and also do a better job with anti-racism more generally, which I think we're currently pretty bad at. I still have this dang cold so I will leave it there.

sorry this wasn't very articulate