(Jewish Group) Jeremy Corbyn Purports To Defend Minorities. What About Jews?

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Since Jews are so notoriously argumentative and Jewish communities notoriously fractious, the joke is that for every two Jews you need three synagogues.

So a unified statement from a community citing an “existential threat” to Jewish life in a Western democracy is really news.

Even in Britain, a community once noted for its surprising unity has fractured. The so-called “Chief Rabbi” barely represents a plurality of Britain’s Jews and the venerable — once unchallenged — Jewish Chronicle has two bitter adversaries in the Jewish Telegraph and the Jewish News.

Nevertheless, each of those papers printed a joint statement warning that — in light of its rejection of the widely adopted definition of anti-Semitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party represents an “existential threat” to Britain’s Jews.


As I’ve written before, the Labour Party’s consistent disregard for the Jewish community under Corbyn is as if the American Democratic Party were to explicitly ignore African Americans and, in this case, convene a panel of white men to redefine anti-black hatred. This is “existential” because in the next general election, Corbyn may be marginally less unpopular than the anemic Conservatives who are trying to effect a bad faith Brexit in the face of opposition on all sides.

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