只需几项民意调查、向平等监管机构提出申诉以及威胁采取法律行动，安迪·伯纳姆的工党才意识到，在处理绿党问题上，或许存在一条红线——煽动仇恨犹太人。
All it has taken is a few opinion polls, a referral to the equality watchdog and a threat of legal action for Andy Burnham’s Labour to realise that, when it comes to the Greens, perhaps there is a red line for stirring up Jew hatred.
毕竟，伯纳姆在担任首相的首批行动之一，就为前政府在哈马斯2023年10月7日大屠杀之后敢于为以色列辩护而道歉。更令人惊讶的是，他在加里·莱因克尔主持的播客节目中发表了这一道歉——莱因克尔曾因在社交媒体上分享反犹太主义内容而被BBC解雇（尽管他后来为此道歉）。
It was after all Burnham who, in one of his first acts as Prime Minister, apologised for the previous government daring to stand up for Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023. What is more, he did it while on a podcast hosted by Gary Lineker, who was pushed out of the BBC for sharing an anti-Semitic social media post (which he did apologise for).
而他的外交大臣埃德·米利班德则表现得好像哈马斯只是个小麻烦，仅对2023年10月7日的事件负责，毫无其他过错。在他将更多纳税人的钱数百万英镑转交给巴勒斯坦人——以便他们可能用于更多腐败和新建恐怖主义隧道——时，他自豪地宣布对以色列人实施制裁，宣称他们犯有“战争罪”和“种族清洗”。
And it was his Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, who acted like Hamas was a mere inconvenience, a group responsible solely for October 7 and no other ills. While he was handing over millions more of our tax money to the Palestinians to squander on (likely on more corruption and new terror tunnels), he proudly announced sanctions on Israelis – whom he declared guilty of “war crimes” and “ethnic cleansing”.
米利班德还曾对抗议者（自2023年10月7日起，他们一直呼吁消灭犹太国家）宣称：“你们是对的。”
And it was Miliband too who declared to the protesters (who have, since October 7, called for the eradication of the Jewish State) “you were right”.
工党曾看到仇恨犹太人的选票流失给了绿党，他们想把这些票夺回来。尽管犹太领导人要求他们在言辞上更加谨慎，但他们仍然故我行我素。
Labour had seen the votes of Jew haters peeling off to the Greens and they wanted to grab them back. Even though Jewish leaders asked them to be more careful with their rhetoric, they carried on.
直到情况甚至超出了左翼的容忍范围——他们已经因竞相证明谁对以色列的仇恨更深而陷入狂热，却从未停下来思考真正驱动这种狂热、可怕激情的根源。
Until it went too far even for a Left-wing which has whipped itself up into a fury to prove who can hate Israel more without stopping to take a breath about what really motivates this ferocious, frightening fervour.
绿党的“犹太复国主义就是种族主义”提案，是由一位坦然承认自己是恐怖分子朋友的女性提出的，这成为工党的红线。呼吁完全消灭犹太国家并支持恐怖主义，这已经太过明显。
The Greens’ “Zionism is racism” motion, created by a woman who happily admits to being a friend of a terrorist, is Labour’s red line. Calling for the entire eradication of the Jewish state and endorsing terrorism was just a bit too obvious.
工党仍花了一周多时间才得出这一结论。今天他们坚持称，任何在地方议会与他们共享执政权的绿党要么谴责该动议，要么终止联盟。据信，工党目前在英格兰的五个地方当局与绿党共享执政权。
It still took Labour more than a week to reach this conclusion. Today they insisted that any Greens they share power with in local councils either denounce the motion or end their coalition. It is believed that Labour currently shares power with the Greens in five authorities across England.
他们可能正是在常规的党会后提振未出现、而最新民调显示绿党支持率似乎下降的时候才得出这一结论的。
And they may have only come to that conclusion when, instead of the usual post-conference boost, the Green Party seemed to have gone down in the latest polls.
反犹太主义运动将绿党提交给平等与人权委员会（EHRC）的幽灵无疑提醒人们，就在几年前，工党也曾被提交至同一机构，并被认定对犹太人实施非法歧视和骚扰负有责任。
The spectre of the Campaign Against Antisemitism referring the Greens to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was no doubt a reminder that just a few years ago Labour was referred to the same body and found guilty of unlawful discrimination and harassment against Jews.
犹太绿党威胁将因锡安主义即种族主义政策而因歧视和骚扰将自己的党告上法庭的举动，也提醒人们：即便政党乐意加大对犹太人的攻击，也不意味着这种行为是正确的或合法的。
While the threat from the Jewish Greens that they were going to take their own party to court for discrimination and harassment over the Zionism is racism policy was also a reminder that even if political parties are happy to ramp up their attacks on Jews, that doesn’t mean it is either right or legal.
这也意味着工党可以自豪地宣称自己才是反对反犹种族主义的真正政党，同时对自由民主党施加压力——自由民主党在22个议会（通常与工党处于对立）与绿党共享执政权——要求他们也这样做。这确实很有政治上的便利性，不是吗？
It also means that Labour can proudly proclaim itself the real party against anti-Jewish racism while piling pressure on the Liberal Democrats, who share power with the Greens in 22 councils (often in opposition to Labour) to do the same. This is rather politically convenient, isn’t it?
左翼为何再次让自己陷入这场不圣洁的泥潭？一场发生在2000多英里之外、早在一年多前就已基本结束的战争，为何仍以这种方式主导着我们的政治？这些政党为何乐于再次把英国犹太人——其人数不足30万——当作政治足球来踢？作为其中一员，我无法告诉你们这有多么令人筋疲力尽和恐惧。
How did the Left once again allow itself to get into this unholy mess? How does one war more than 2,000 miles away, a war that effectively ended more than a year ago, still dominate our politics in the way it does? Why are these parties so content to use Britain’s Jews, who number less than 300,000, as a political football once again? As one of them, I can’t tell you how exhausting and how frightening this is.
任何学习过大屠杀历史的人都知道，纳粹在对付犹太人时遵循了一种熟悉的模式。在动荡、忧虑和危险的时期，人们总会寻找替罪羊。而它很可能正是一个熟悉的替罪羊。正如让-保罗·萨特在1946年所写：“如果犹太人不存在，反犹太主义者就会创造他。”绿党无法解决气候危机。工党在移民或生活成本问题上毫无作为。我们面临着俄罗斯和伊朗不断挑衅我们的防御。也许这也解释了为什么他们将继续对以色列的恶行发表大量言论，同时在下次尝试时，尽量不完全越过红线。
Anyone who has learnt their Holocaust history will know that the Nazis followed a familiar pattern in alighting on the Jew. In times of flux, worry, and danger, people will always look for a scapegoat. And it might as well be a familiar one. As Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in 1946: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would create him.”The Greens can’t solve the climate crisis. Labour has nothing to say about immigration or the cost of living. We have Russia and Iran constantly poking at our defences. And perhaps that explains why they will continue to have lots to say about the evils of Israel while trying, next time, not to quite cross the red line.