LONDON ¨C Of the fighting faiths that flourished during the ideologically drunk 20th century, anti-Semitism has been uniquely durable. It survives by mutating, even migrating across the political spectrum from the right to the left. Although most frequently found in European semi-fascist parties, anti-Semitism is growing in the fetid Petri dish of American academia, and is staining Britain¡¯s Labour Party.

In 2014, before Naseem ¡°Naz¡± Shah became a Labour member of Parliament, she shared a graphic on her Facebook page suggesting that all Israelis should be ¡°relocated¡± to the United States. She seemed to endorse the idea that the ¡°transportation cost¡± would be less than ¡°three years of defense spending.¡± When this was recently publicized, ¡°Red Ken¡± Livingstone, former Labour mayor of London, offered on the BBC what he considered a defense of her as not anti-Semitic because ¡°a real anti-Semite doesn¡¯t just hate the Jews in Israel.¡± Besides, Livingstone said, Hitler was a Zionist (for supposedly considering sending Europe¡¯s Jews to Palestine) ¡°before he went mad.¡± As mayor, Livingstone praised as a ¡°progressive voice¡± an Egyptian cleric who called the Holocaust ¡°divine punishment.¡±

Labour¡¯s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says he wants to cleanse Labour of such thinking. But Corbyn hopes to host at the House of Commons a Palestinian sheikh who calls Jews ¡°bacteria¡± and ¡°monkeys¡± and has been accused of repeating the ¡°blood libel¡± that Jews make matzo using the blood of gentile children.