Anti-Semitism, poetically dubbed “the oldest hatred, forever young,” is rearing its ugly head in a rapidly unfolding scandal within the United Kingdom’s Labour Party.  To clean house and/or try to contain the fallout, Labour chair Jeremy Corbyn has initiated an independent inquiry.  On May 2, a British paper reported that fifty members of the Labour party have been “secretly suspended” in the past two months over anti-Semitic remarks.  But there have been public suspensions and resignations as well.  On May 3, Naz Shah stepped down from the Home Affairs Committee, pending the results of Labour’s investigation into her past anti-Semitic social media posts.  On May 2, Labour suspended three councillors (Ilyas Aziz, Shah Hussain, and Salim Mulla) for anti-Semitic remarks discovered in their social media.  On March 15, Vicki Kirby, who was elected vice chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party following being suspended in...(Read Full Article)