Corbyn’s ‘regret’ over an antisemitic mural doesn’t go remotely far enough – The party leader seems to respond as though hatred of Jewish people is an irritant, rather than a issue of fundamental rights | The Guardian

If, as August Bebel, the 19th-century German leftist, warned, antisemitism is the “socialism of fools”, then it is becoming ever more pressing to ask whether the man who fancies himself our next prime minister might be rather foolish. Jeremy Corbyn’s gift for empathy does much to explain his remarkable electoral performance last June. But his wholly inadequate response to the Tower Hamlets mural controversy suggests that this gift may have clear – and alarming – limits.