Few Labour supporters will disagree with the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews when she said that the adoption of the IHRA definition "had to be the right call", if only to allow the party to get on with its job of opposing the odious Tory government (Labour party adopts full definition of antisemitism, 05/09/18). Sadly, opponents of Corbyn, in the party and media especially, will still not be satisfied. Margaret Hodge, for example, expressed her disappointment with the party over its issuing of "the short clarification to accompany the adoption of the code", both on Twitter and the BBC`s Today programme when debating with Shami Chakrabarti. Her views were repeated again, at length, on the following 9 o`clock Radio 4 news; Chakrabarti`s, somewhat predictably, were not.
One is bound to speculate that had Labour accepted the IHRA definition months ago, his opponents would have found some other excuse to attack him, and the BBC would have made it headline news!
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