This is an important and valuable book which tracks the origins and outcomes of the accusations and perceptions that the Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn is 'riddled' with antisemitism and is 'institutionally antisemitic'. How did this process happen? When did it start? What part did the media play? How did the notorious IHRA working definition of antisemitism feed into the crisis? Is antisemitism more prevalent in the Labour Party than elsewhere? These are among the questions that are addressed.

Raised in Scotland, married and divorced in the English south, an adopted Slovene, Fanny Copeland (1872-1970 occupied the intersection of a number of complex spatial and temporal conjunctures.