Norman Finkelstein Condemns Labour Antisemitism Row As ‘Obscene’

As the UK’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis accuses certain individuals in the Labour party of spreading the “insidious virus of anti-Semitism”, political scientist Norman Finkelstein says that certain party members are exaggerating the crisis for political gain. The American Jewish author whose Israel ‘relocation’ map was shared on social media by Naz Shah, has condemned as ‘obscene’ the current Labour antisemitism row. It was Finkelstein who first published the map at the center of the ongoing ‘anti-Semitism’ row and he has since defended the Bradford West MP who was suspended for sharing it on her Facebook page. Russia Today reports: A Jewish professor and author whose parents survived concentration camps during the Holocaust, Finkelstein claimed to have published the map entitled “Solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict – relocate Israel into United States” on his blog in 2014. The image was then shared on Facebook by Shah before she became Labour MP for Bradford West in 2014. But that was enough to get her suspended from the party just last week when it came to light. The professor said the original post was “funny” and said it was “obscene” for Shah to be compared to Adolf Eichmann by her colleague John Mann. [...]