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The rally against antisemitism was hijacked

The JC Leader - January 10, 2019

January 9, 2020 16:08
Socialist Workers Party placards were carried at the demonstration
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A rally hijacked

Our columnist David Aaronovitch this week points to an important irony of our times.

“Who’d have thought”, he asks, “that one day I’d count Prince Charles as a reliable ally, and ‘anti-racist’ campaigners as anything but?”

Last month’s so-called vigil against antisemitism in Hampstead, north London, was one of the most appalling spectacles foisted on our community in recent years.

A group of assorted Socialist Worker Party supporters and fellow travelers used the appearance of antisemitic graffiti the previous weekend as an excuse to push their political agenda, staging a rally addressed by, among others, Trotskyites who have either excused left-wing antisemitism and even some who actively pushed it.