Labour’s anti-Semitism problem compared to ‘an over-whipped soufflé’

Although reports and actions in the past year have suggested that Corbyn’s Labour might just have a problem when it comes to Jews, some Labour members beg to differ. At Momentum’s World Transformed festival in Liverpool, a panel made up of Rhea Wolfson, Jackie Walker, Jonathan Rosenhead and Jeremy Newmark came together to ask: Does Labour have an anti-Semitism Problem?

Attendees were gifted leaflets, on their way into the workshop, that called for the Jewish Labour Movement — which has ‘used the charge of widespread anti-Semitism in the Labour party to attack the new movement’ — to be expelled from Labour.

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This sentiment was a common theme throughout the session. Walker — who is vice-chair of Momentum — claimed the problem of anti-Semitism had been ‘exaggerated for political purposes’ at at a ‘huge cost to our movement, to our communities and to many individual people in and outside of our party’.