The Left's Jewish Problem

[2] Rich began the book as a doctoral thesis at Birkbeck, University of London,[3][4] with his studies funded by his employer, the Community Security Trust.

[citation needed] The work traces the origins of contemporary left-wing antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, including its presence in the British Labour Party, to the early 1970s.

Rich cites figures like Peter Hain and Louis Eaks of the Young Liberals, who described Zionism as a colonialist and imperialist project to impose Israeli apartheid on the Palestinian people.

Philip Spencer, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University, in reviewing the book for the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, accuses the left of inverting reality to blame Jews, "the victims of the most murderous racism, were now the real racists, inverting the Holocaust.

This reflects a wider lack of proportionality in current debates on prejudice in British politics" while also making exaggerations.