How myths of "Jewish domination" have infected the left
Labour Herald , a newspaper produced by the WRP and Labour left figures including Ken Livingstone and Ted Knight, published this antisemitic cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1982 Left antisemitism is a phenomenon that has, in my view, two principal historic strands, which now overlap and intertwine. One, the primitive form, is the so-called “socialism of fools”, originating in the 19th century, that railed against Jewish bankers and conflated Jews with capital and finance. The second, more contemporary, strand developed over the second half of the 20th century, manifested in...