This time last year, Jeremy Corbyn was locked in a head-to-head battle with Boris Johnson to decide the future of British politics. The current Labour leader Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner were publicly campaigning to make Corbyn the UK’s prime minister.

Yet twelve months on, Starmer is engaged in a campaign to drive Corbyn and his supporters out of public life altogether, with Rayner’s full backing. In an extraordinary turn of events, the party Corbyn led so recently has even suspended members who dared to question his suspension, or Starmer’s refusal to readmit his predecessor as a Labour MP.

Central to that effort has been a report recently published by Great Britain’s equality law regulator, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), following an investigation into allegations of widespread antisemitism in the Labour Party. That investigation formed part of a sustained, aggressive, and ultimately successful lawfare strategy waged against Corbyn’s party by pro-Israel lobby groups.