If only the Guardian was as morally crystal clear as its sister paper the Observer (with whom it shares a website) is in this editorial:

“But reforming processes is not enough: Labour’s antisemitism problem is one of culture, not just procedure. Of course antisemitism is not limited to the left. But the nature of antisemitic tropes that paint Jewish people as a malign, controlling influence of the world means that some on the left have been particularly susceptible, even as they loudly proclaim themselves anti-racists. And in among his vows that Labour stands against “all forms of racism”, and the implication that Labour’s problems with antisemitism are merely a product of the fact that it exists in society at large, Corbyn has failed to acknowledge this. The chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, last week said that the Labour leadership was directly complicit in the scourge of antisemitism. It is to Labour’s great shame that he is right.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/14/observer-view-antisemitism-in-labour-jeremy-corbyn ... See MoreSee Less

After the Berlin Jewish museum controversy, now scandal at the Munich Jewish museum:

British Journalist Tom Gross told the Jerusalem Post that “Jewish museums should concentrate on Jewish issues, not be used as political tools to bash other Jews.”

He said: “On Friday [July 12], on a page 1 story, The New York Times international edition finally covered the resignation of Berlin’s Jewish museum director a month ago. But the Times first paragraph implied that objections had been made against the Berlin director because he wasn’t Jewish. This is nonsense. Whether the directors of the Berlin or Munich Jewish museums are Jewish is not the issue. The issue is whether they will stage exhibits pandering to, even encouraging, antisemitism, in Germany of all places.”

Gross noted that “In the case of the current Munich controversy, it is noteworthy that it is a non-Jewish museum employee who is complaining that the current exhibit (by an extreme-left wing Israeli Jewish artist) is ‘making use of popular anti-Semitic imagery’.”

www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-museum-in-Munich-is-accused-of-libel-against-Israel-595546 ... See MoreSee Less

The Wimbledon tennis finals are this weekend. 63 years later, a Jewish British Champion is still waiting to be allowed to join other winners... reports the (London) Times today as follows:

"A British Wimbledon champion has accused the All England Club of antisemitism because she has yet to receive membership 63 years after her victory.

In 1956 Angela Buxton, now 84, was the first British Jewish player to win a title at Wimbledon, overcoming prejudice to win the ladies doubles with Althea Gibson, the first black American woman to compete and to win at the tournament. A British newspaper ran the headline “Minorities win”.
Angela Buxton, 84, applied for membership in 1956 but in 1988 was at the “back of the queue”

In the same year Ms Buxton became the first British woman in 17 years to reach the ladies singles final, losing to the American Shirley Fry. She applied to become a member before the finals after friends told her she would be accepted as a leading British player.

Ms Buxton, from Kilburn, north London, said yesterday she was still waiting to be recognised by Wimbledon for her achievements in tennis. “It’s an unfortunate example of how the British really treat Jews in this country,” she told The Times. “This sort of thing exacerbates the feeling towards Jews. It’s perfectly ridiculous, it’s laughable. It speaks volumes.”

Ms Buxton was one of the first people to be inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame at during its opening ceremony in Netanya, Israel, in 1981.

She is being recognised next month at a special ceremony at the US Open, where she will deliver a speech about her doubles partner Ms Gibson, who is being posthumously honoured with a statue at Flushing Meadows, the home of the tournament.

The last time Ms Buxton asked the club about the status of her membership was in 1988. “They said I had refused it and my membership had gone to the back of the queue,” she said. “I never refused it and there are so many players who didn’t do anything like me and got membership.”

With a total membership of about 560 and a waiting list of around 1,000, the All England Club is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. Its membership is divided into five categories: full, life, honorary, temporary and junior temporary. An aspiring member must be proposed, seconded and supported by four existing full members, all of whom are required to write in support of the application.

Honorary members include “past singles champions, other eminent lawn tennis players, benefactors of the club or the championships, and other persons who have rendered special service to lawn tennis”, according to the All England website.

Ms Buxton’s lifelong friend Ms Gibson, who was the first black player to win the ladies singles titles in 1957 and 1958, died in 2003, still awaiting her membership after also applying in 1956.

Arthur Ashe, the black American tennis champion, was barred from youth tournaments and shunned by white players early in his career. Ashe remains the only black man to win at Wimbledon, having defeated Jimmy Connors in 1975.

Gibson was the only black woman to win Wimbledon singles until Venus Williams took the title in 2000.

Ms Buxton said she had suffered antisemitism throughout her tennis career and still wanted Wimbledon to accept her application. “They could rectify this pretty simply. Sixty years is a long time.”

Ms Buxton is a member of the Last 8 Club at Wimbledon, which means she is invited to attend the championships each year and make use of a hospitality area which provides drinks, food, seats and a television for the 600 members who have reached the singles quarter-finals, doubles semi-finals or the final of the mixed doubles.

A Wimbledon spokeswoman said: “While the decision-making process for membership of the All England Club is a private matter, we strongly refute any suggestion that race or religion plays a factor.”" ... See MoreSee Less

Horrendous: 73-year-old Wesly was "woken at home in his bed, beaten, pushed down the stairs, stabbed and kicked. Then the men tied him to a chair, placed a piece of cloth over his mouth and nose, and poured water on the cloth – a torture technique known as waterboarding that simulates drowning."

The JTA, being pretty left wing, sometimes downplay anti-Semitism in attacks. The prime motive was no doubt robbery, but there may have been extra sadism because he was a prominent Jewish leader. We have seen that in similar robberies in France recently. ... See MoreSee Less