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Opinion The Jewish Left UK

It isn’t an easy time to be a new Jewish Labour MP – but it’s an important one

At this dark hour, the Jewish left must not shrink away. Our resolve to build an anti-racist movement must be hardened.

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Essay The Jewish Left UK

Young Jews are reviving the Jewish left – will they succeed?

The seeds are being sown for a Jewish left whose desire for a better world might be enacted in a way that has a chance of breaking free from the tendency towards obdurate self-ghettoisation that has dominated the far left.

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Opinion The Jewish Left UK

Don’t be fooled, Brexit is a Jewish issue

Brexit is a Conservative attempt to overturn the internationalist legacy Jews have so heavily relied on. Why then does our communal leadership seem unbothered by it?

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Opinion UK

Left populism doesn’t create antisemitism – it’s our best hope of fighting it

Jews cannot be told that Corbyn’s programme is incompatible with the fight against antisemitism.

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Opinion The Jewish Left UK

The climate crisis is our most urgent existential threat

While it might feel like the hounds of Brexit and antisemitism are snapping at our heels, we are in danger of letting them chase us off a cliff edge.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Opinion UK

Labour must treat antisemitism as a human problem, not just a political one

From the back-benches to the front, Corbyn has fought for Jewish freedoms; yet it’s this fighting spirit that has latterly turned made him an intractable elder statesman who struggles to admit wrongdoing.