Anti-semitism "infects sections of the Left." posted by Richard Seymour

Marc Mulholland isn't wrong to believe that some of the left has been infected by anti-semitism in relation to Israel. Harry's favourite source of anti-SWP gossip (invariably inaccurate and often made up completely), is the Weekly Worker .

As Mark Elf could inform him, it will also provide ample testimony against "Jewish interests" if he ever decides to take against them. Royston Bull, the author of the anti-semitic rant published by Weekly Worker as a letter, also managed to describe the WTC attacks as a "blow against imperialism". He is, suffice to say, an ex-Stalinist. Most of his type have shifted their support from Stalin's tanks to Bush's airforce, but he prefers Osama's airforce. Nice.

Of course, Weekly Worker is the same stout organ that once rallied in defense of David Irving , adducing "the principle of free speech". This was after they had published an article denying that Irving was a holocaust-denier (holocaust-denial-denial?), promoting his books' historical virtues and commending the "very readable" two-volume set on Churchill's war, referring to Irving's "life-long mission to upset and offend what he perceives to be official or received opinion on the Third Reich". Again, their defense is the principle of "free speech". But, as Harry's Place are well aware, "Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear".