In light of the smears against Jeremy Corbyn, Judy Beishon, a member of the Socialist Party’s executive committee, explains the origins of antisemitism, its nature today and what’s necessary to end it.
Useful further reading:
• ‘Antisemitism – what it is an how to fight it’ by Judy Beishon, covering many of the issues touched on in the podcast http://socialismtoday.org/222/antisemitism.html
• ‘Antisemitism, Israel-Palestine and the left’ by Peter Taaffe: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/27374/21-05-2018/antisemitism-israel-palestine-amp-the-left
• Leon Trotsky ‘On the Jewish Question’ available at leftbooks.co.uk
• On the protest against the Nationality Law Judy mentions: http://www.socialistworld.net/index.php/international/middle-east/israel-palestine/9907-israel-palestine-new-protest-against-the-nationality-law
• Our sister party on the Israel-Palestine conflict: http://www.socialistworld.net/index.php/international/middle-east/israel-palestine/7566-the-marxist-left-the-national-conflict-and-the-palestinian-struggle
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