I can believe that Corbyn didn’t notice the antisemitic tropes in the mural, and guilt by association seldom works out well for anybody. But the defence of the ‘English irony’ comment is weak. A racist or antisemitic statement doesn’t have to apply to all members of a group to be
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Racist or antisemitic. I wish he had just acknowledged that his statement was antisemitic and apologised. It—and the Ken Livingstone case—remind me of an interwar Romanian novel ‘For Two Thousand Years’. One character tells the Jewish narrator that he doesn’t have a problem with
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