Rachel Riley refused to be cowed - so let's celebrate her inspirational legal victory

Rachel Riley’s recent libel win, led by the indomitable lawyer Mark Lewis, shows the perils of reading things into tweets that are not expressly stated. 

The fact is that the last 5 years have sent shivers through large sections of Jewish communities, around how antisemitism can creep into a major political party in this country, namely the Labour Party that historically attracted Jewish political activism.

That fear led to a consistent and moral challenge by many against a system and leadership at the time, which was seen to be hostile to the social well-being of Britain’s Jews. Anyone with an ounce of empathy, care and real affection for Britain’s Jews would have reached out, listened and even questioned the direction of where the Labour leadership was going under Corbyn.

Many in the Party simply did not and carried on believing that the issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party would have no real bearing on the British public. How wrong they were, because it was one of a number of core issues that turned off British voters. Labour was hammered into political oblivion.