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April 2, 2018

Since Jeremy Corbyn Doesn’t Even Believe Anti-Semitism Exists, His Disavowals of It Mean Nothing

It must be the image in his head of the Jew as bloodsucker.

Last week, the ongoing scandal of anti-Semitism within the British Labor party came to a head amid reports that in 2012 the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, had defended a grotesque anti-Semitic mural. Corbyn duly sent to British Jewish leaders a letter disavowing anti-Semitism, but many members of his party flocked to his defense; they included one former parliamentarian who claimed on Twitter that the “Jewish leaders ganging up on Corbyn” were concerned not about anti-Semitism but about legitimate “criticism of Israel.” Howard Jacobson comments:

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