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August 31, 2018

The Political Calculations behind Jeremy Corbyn’s Anti-Semitism

And the growing threat to Anglo-Jewry’s safety.

As members of the hard left of Britain’s Labor party defend its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, against mounting accusations of anti-Semitism, they have taken to blaming the Mossad and wealthy Jewish donors for orchestrating a “smear campaign.” They’ve also called one Labor parliamentarian who has dared to criticize Corbyn a “a nasty, venomous little jewess” and another “the honorable member for Tel Aviv,” and have likened the party’s deputy leader, who has expressed his own concerns about anti-Semitism, to the New Testament’s Judas. Such rhetoric has come not only from anonymous Internet users but also from high-ranking members of the party. Yet, argues Jonathan Foreman, Corbyn and his acolytes may also be cynically using anti-Semitism to their advantage:

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