"It's politics, you're going to get political answers and evasion."
Hang on, when it's challenging questionable behaviour of the Tories, they need to be held to account.
But when it's Corbyn and anti-semitism that can just be shrugged off with: "It's politics, you're going to get political answers and evasion."
Does that apply to other issues? Should we shrug Tory islamophobia off with 'it's politics, meh'? How about universal credit? Brexit?
What is it that people want him to actually do? - you say 'actions' but the Labour Party has processes in place to deal with such prejudices. If those processes aren't working, they need to change until they are.
Another one that has already been mentioned on the thread. Adoption of the international definition of anti semitism.
I am a British Jew and don't consider criticism of Israel as antisemitic. I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with criticism of Israel, I'm a British Jew who is horrified by the actions of the state of Israel. It's abhorrent.
Labour refused to adopt the internationally recognised definition of anti semitism, and defined their own which deliberately omits "comparing Israeli polices to those of the Nazis." as being antisemitic.
I think the Israeli policies and actions are horrific and absolutely should be criticised.
But comparison of Israel to Nazis being deemed as totally OK and not anti semitic doesn't sit well with me
For example, the attached wouldn't be deemed as anti semitic. Which doesn't seem like legitimate criticism of the actions of the state of Israel to me.
Jonathan Freedland recently put forward an interesting analogy, he said imagine the police, post Stephen Lawrence and the charge of institutional racism, had been given guidelines from the leaders of the black community. Then imagine the police rejected these, instead a mostly white group of police officials, without consultation, drew up its own anti-racism guidelines. Imagine these officials then said to the black community 'here are the guidelines we're following', and when that community complained that these did not address their concerns, those police officials responded how dare you complain, you should be grateful.
He used a similar analogy in this Guardian article:
"It’s as if Labour unilaterally decided to rewrite a widely accepted set of guidelines on sexual harassment, in defiance of opposition from every women’s organisation and without consulting them, and delegating the task to a majority male sub-committee, and then expected women to applaud the new document."
But Jews should stop making a fuss.