David Renton, ‘Labour’s Antisemitism crisis: What the Left got wrong and how to learn from it’, Routledge, 2022 – reflection by Philip Mendes, September 2021

Firstly, let me say this is not a conventional book review. It is more so an ongoing critical reflection on what the anti-Zionist Left (i.e. those who reject Israel’s continuing existence as a Jewish state even within the Green Line borders, and instead advocate so-called universalistic solutions which in the current political culture of the…