A Bristol school cancelled a Labour MP’s visit, Labour responded by implying antisemitism instead of answering the objection. Now the parents fight back. Right, so Labour Minister Steve Reed has gone on a stage and implied a Jewish MP was blocked from visiting a school, and Keir Starmer has followed up by saying the people who stopped it will be “held to account”. A school decision that would normally sit under safeguarding and local judgement has just been dragged into national politics, with a moral label stapled to it before anyone is even allowed to hear the objection. Oh God forbid we actually hear the objection. The shortcut everyone relies on here is the same one they always reach for: say “antisemitism”, skip the facts, and treat the story as finished. That shortcut has just stopped working, because the parents have put their reasons in w ...