Saturday 28 July 2018

The Jewish establishment's ‘War Against Corbyn’ risks bringing real antisemitism to Britain

This week the rhetoric coming from the Jewish establishment against Jeremy Corbyn reached a new high. Three Jewish newspapers agreed to share the same headline and the same editorial which described the Labour leader as posing an "existential threat to the Jewish community". Things are getting seriously out of hand.

Here's an extract from my latest blog post:

If you vote Labour will that make you antisemitic in the eyes of the Jewish community? If you stand for election as a Labour candidate will you be antisemitic?
And what if Corbyn losses by a narrow margin? How will the millions who voted for him see the Jewish community and its three-year campaign to brand him toxic?
The ‘Jewish War Against Corbyn’ is not good Jewish communal politics. It’s playing with fire.

Read the full post at Patheos