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Editors’ Pick

June 25, 2019

How to Prevent the Corbynization of the Democratic Party

Don’t ignore the fringe, and don’t appease it.

After carefully summarizing how the British Labor party fell into hands of the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-American, and pro-terrorist Jeremy Corbyn and his followers, Robert Philpot considers the danger that America’s Democrats could be headed toward a similar devolution. For Labor, Philpot shows, the turning point came under the prior leadership of the comparatively more moderate (and Jewish) Edward Miliband, who “abandoned the pro-Israel line that had characterized the premierships of [his predecessors] Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and . . . shifted wholesale into the anti-Israel camp.”

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