Chris Williamson, Labour MP for Derby North, has spent the past few years as if on some kind of warped mission to prove himself as the leading troll of British Jews in the country.
As the JLC pointed out in its letter to him this week, he has repeatedly smeared our loyalty and questioned our motivations in calling out antisemitism within the Labour Party. But, this week, he crossed a line.
On Monday, he signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s book of remembrance, posting a self-congratulatory picture of himself doing so on Twitter. That a man such as Mr Williamson should sign the book is a desecration of Holocaust Memorial Day. If Mr Williamson was in any way sincere in signing it, he would have renounced his past behaviour and allied with those who call out antisemitism within his party.
But of course he has done no such thing because, in signing the book, he was repeating the pattern, making a mockery of the Holocaust — behaviour which was rightly labelled “repulsive” by Karen Pollock, the chief executive of the HET.
