Who is the real Eve Barlow?

(Jewish News UK) Eve Barlow remembers exactly where she was when she realised things had changed. “I was standing to the side of the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury,” the writer told Life. She was there to see Katy Perry, but Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came out first. “I could see, from Corbyn’s perspective, the galvanised worship culture around him,” she recalled.

Back in the press area after Perry’s performance, “all everyone was talking about with stars in their eyes was Jeremy Corbyn”. There and then, Barlow had “a crisis of conscience”.

Many of us have had such moments of horror over the past decade, and especially since October 7. They usually took place in less notable spots, though – and few of us have taken up the fight in the way Barlow has, and continues to. Whether that is through social media, giving talks, or on her Substack newsletter, “Blacklisted”, Eve is not afraid to loudly and proudly battle antisemitism and advocate for Israel.

Indeed, while most return from Glastonbury needing to sleep and nurse a hangover, Barlow reacted by doing what she knows best – writing.

She penned an open letter warning people about the risks of voting for Corbyn’s Labour party. Nobody would publish it. Undeterred, she put it out online herself. “I was like, I have to say something, and I vomited it out,” she explained.