Margaret Hodge battled Jeremy Corbyn in Parliament. Now she’s managing the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war.
Dame Margaret Hodge, a member of the British Parliament affiliated with the Labour Party, is Jewish and has been an outspoken voice against antisemitism. | Ian Vogler - Pool/Getty ImagesAlexander Burns is head of news at POLITICO. He has covered elections and political power across the U.S. for over a decade and co-wrote a best-selling book about Donald Trump and Joe Biden. His reported column Tomorrow explores the future of politics and policy debates that cross international borders.
Really, my Jewish identity was never part of my politics, all through my life, until Corbyn. My jokey thing that I always say is that my dad tried to make me a better Jew and failed and the rabbi tried to make me a better Jew and failed. And then I went to the LSE , which when I was there in the ’60s was very — there were a lot of Jews there, we laughingly called it the London Shul of Economics. They tried to make me a good Jew and they failed. And it took Jeremy Corbyn to make me a Jew, really.
Personally, two of my granddaughters are of secondary school age, so they go to a single-sex girls secondary school. And because it’s single-sex, there’s a very large Muslim population there. The school originally put up some sort of display where they had an Israeli flag and a Palestinian flag. Good stuff. But the Muslim girls tore down the Israeli flag and replaced it with another Palestinian flag. So, only two Palestinian flags.
Anyway, I rang up, said I’d like to come to the mosque on Friday. And he said, “No, you can’t, they’d absolutely go for you.” Which I was upset about. Then I said, “But I’m doing a meeting in the road where this big mosque is.” I’ve got, I think, probably 20 mosques, but this is the big one. I do a lot of community-based street meetings, and this was about some trees that had been chopped down and people were angry. He says, “Oh, you can’t come and do that meeting, Margaret.
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