Sadly, they brought it on themselves. Some members (including some of Jewish heritage) took the path from being against Likud and religious fundamentalism and in favour of rights for Palestinians (which, ok, fine) to being against the State of Israel and the Zionist project in general to being anti-Semitic when it came to Israeli Jews to being anti-Semitic against British Jews, including liberal ones, who dared support the existence of Israel.
Corbyn had a chance to clearly denounce these members and expel them from the party, but he bungled that as surely as he did the party’s support for Remain. Instead he dragged his feet on investigating the clear-cut cases of anti-Semitism within the party and on censuring the bad actors. When Corbyn and his coterie started claiming there was no anti-Semitism problem despite long-time Labour people making a good case that there was, the British press – no friend of left Labour – was able to hang that albatross around the party’s neck.
But again, all of that doesn’t change the fact that anti-Semitism is baked deep into the Tory and Brexit Parties, even if they make the right noises toward supporting Bibi and other Israeli ultra-nationalists. As bad as the outcome for Jews (as distinct from Zionists) might have been under Corbyn, it is so much worse now.
