Why can’t a Jewish MP visit his local school? |
Ruth Wisse defines anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as ‘the organisation of politics against the Jews’, and in Britain it is striking just how openly the organisers operate. During his remarks to Sunday’s Jewish Labour Movement conference, Communities Secretary Steve Reed revealed that a Jewish colleague was ‘banned’ from visiting a school in his constituency ‘in case his presence inflames the teachers’. Reed described this as ‘an absolute outrage’.
Peruse the social media output of politicians and commentators otherwise agitated about threats to democracy and the targeting of MPs. I suspect they’ll be rather more muted about this episode
The Jewish News reports that the politician in question is the Jewish MP Damien Egan and alleges that members of the National Education Union........