IN the light of the widespread tendency to accuse politicians of hypocrisy, it seems unfair of Geoff Robb (Letters, September 1) to criticise Jeremy Corbyn for having reservations about the IHRA definition on anti-semitism and sticking to his principles.
In his various guises Corbyn has been consistently anti-colonialist; whether of English colonialism in Ireland and in our sometime empire, of Boer colonialism in South Africa, of Russian colonialism in Eastern Europe, and of Israeli colonialism in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Although I suspect that like most of your readers, he has no personal experience of living in an occupied territory, he has understood and articulated the frustration and anger of those who live in a country which their families have lived in for generations, yet find themselves subject to discrimination under laws imposed by occupying incomers.
Nothing must prevent the injustice they experience being challenged and rectified, regardless of the nationality, race, or religion of the occupiers or the oppressed.
Maurice Vassie,
Deighton, York
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