After seven British members of Parliament, upset with tolerance for anti-Semitism and equivocation over Brexit, broke away from the Labor Party with warnings that it is in the throes of a dangerous leftward drift, some say the United States' own major progressive political party is due for a similar reckoning.
The suggestion is exactly backward, as here the party rejects, not embraces, hate.
Labor is led by Jeremy Corbyn, who has a dark history of playing footsie with, if not outright embracing, anti-Semitism. In 2012, he endorsed a London mural with awful caricatures of Jewish bankers. In 2013, he said a group of British Zionists had "no sense of English irony." In 2014 in Tunisia, he attended an event honoring the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich terror attack on Israeli Olympians.
America's Democrats, in contrast, rebuff the views of a few backbenchers who support the pernicious movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, as well as the handful who refuse to distance themselves from the loathsome Louis Farrakhan. The party's leadership roundly denounces anti-Semitism _ in fact, roundly condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar, forcing her apology.
With a handful of far-left socialists newly empowered, Democrats must make some fateful choices. But their problems pale in comparison to Labor's pains across the pond.
