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Britain is firmly back in the grip of a full-blown moral panic about leftwing “antisemitism”, once again manufactured by the UK’s political and media classes desperate to shield themselves and Israel from scrutiny.

They are keen to smear large swaths of the British public as Jew haters, just as they did a decade ago when they targeted Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party.

But this time the task will be far harder.

Britons are being told they must pretend that the last three years – years in which they watched Israel butcher and maim many tens of thousands of children in Gaza, and then starve them – never happened. They must not believe their lying eyes.

Nor apparently did they see the British political class actively collude in those atrocities year after year: by supplying weapons, passing on intelligence, excusing atrocities, providing diplomatic cover, and crushing protest.

Nor did they witness the billionaire-owned media smear the anti-genocide protests as Jew hatred and soft-soap Israel’s relentless atrocities as a “war on Hamas”.

Now the British establishment is recruiting once again a self-serving definition of antisemitism it foisted on public life a decade ago to smear its critics, from the Jewish leader of the Green party to schoolchildren expressing solidarity with slaughtered Palestinian children.

The Israel-initiated definition of antisemitism, formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), focuses on stigmatising criticism of Israel and its apologists rather than protecting Jews.

It cites as examples of Jew hatred the description of Israel as a racist state and any kind of historical comparison between Israel and the actions of the Nazis – long the West’s cultural yardstick for judging crimes against humanity.

Under the IHRA’s misleading definition, the International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, must be judged antisemitic for concluding in 2024 that Israel enforces a system of apartheid against Palestinians – that is, a system of institutionalised, racist segregation.

Similarly, the critically acclaimed Israeli documentary NAZA must be called out for Jew hate, because an intelligence officer compares the military actions he took part in in Gaza, using AI to kill Palestinians on an industrial scale, with those of the Nazis.
One-party state

In this latest round of the British establishment’s weaponisation of antisemitism, the main target is once again a political leader whose party has broken with the decades-old, failing neoliberal consensus.

Zack Polanski, the only Jewish leader of a major political party, is being painted as an enabler of antisemitism – accused of permitting Jew hatred to infect the Green party just as Corbyn was while heading the Labour party.