Therese Raphael, Columnist

Jeremy Corbyn Suffers His Own 'Day of Shame'

Keir Starmer still has a tough battle ahead to make sure anti-Semitism is rooted out of the Labour Party.

Goodbye to all that?

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British voters dealt Jeremy Corbyn a devastating defeat in last December’s general election. But it was the report published Thursday on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party under his leadership that will truly define his legacy. He has been suspended from the party that he claims to have loved, but in which a nasty culture of bigotry flourished while he was in charge.

Keir Starmer, Corbyn’s successor, still has a tough battle ahead to make sure this tendency is rooted out of the organization. The 101-page report couldn’t have been more damning. The U.K.’s Equality and Human Rights Commission said the party was guilty of discrimination against Jews and breaking the law. It breached the 2010 Equality Act, introduced by a Labour government, through political interference with anti-Semitism accusations and a failure to provide proper training for those handling the complaints.