Labour Party Loses Ground to Hate

After seven British members of Parliament, upset with tolerance for anti-Semitism and equivocation over Brexit, broke away from the Labour Party with warnings that it is in the throes of a dangerous leftward drift, some say the United States' own major progressive political party is due for a similar reckoning.

The suggestion is exactly backward, as here the party rejects, not embraces, hate.

Labour is led by Jeremy Corbyn, who has a dark history of playing footsie with, if not outright embracing, anti-Semitism In 2012, he endorsed a London mural with awful caricatures of Jewish bankers. In 2013, he said a group of British Zionists had 'no sense of English irony.

' In 2014 in Tunisia, he attended an event honoring the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich terror attack on Israeli Olympians.

America's Democrats, in contrast, rebuff the views of a few backbenchers who...