Jeremy Corbyn
In one case, a party member who had made no public Facebook comments about Israel before Corbyn’s leadership began is now posting more than 300 times per year on the topic, including a claim that “Zionists ... bankrolled Hitler before and throughout WW2.”
The pictures show the leader of the British Labour Party walking in a 2009 march in Birmingham, England, where protesters held banners that described the Jewish state as “child killers” and “thirsty for blood,” while calling for a boycott of the Jewish state.
More than half disapprove of British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of Brexit. And 48 percent polled as him as either fairly or poorly dealing with complaints of anti-Semitism.
Isaac Herzog, chairman of the Jewish Agency, said that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has crossed the line from criticism of Israel into anti-Semitism.
The BBC profiled the anti-Semitism problem in the Labour Party in its TV program “Panorama.”
David Triesman, who also resigned as the whip in the House of Lords, remarked, “It [is] time to recognize the reality. I always said it was worth hanging on to fight so long as there was a prospect of winning. I now don’t believe with this leadership there is.”
“I wasn’t involved in the decision,” said British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. “It was an independent panel set up through the national executive. They examined the case and decided to admit him back in, albeit with a reprimand.”
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also spoke about the need to reframe global misconceptions about Zionism and Israel.
Of British Jewry, she says: “They’re fearful of not having their voice, and not being able to live in a decent and tolerable society that’s based on equality and respect, and not being able to see their children grow up in a community free of racism. We should all want that for our children.”
“This message expresses support and solidarity with the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights to freedom, independence and self-determination,” read the statement. “It also condemns the ongoing occupation and its crimes against our people, and reflects an advanced moral and political position worthy of all praise and thanks.”
He lauded the new edition of J.A. Hobson’s original 1902 “Imperialism: A Study,” released in 2011, four years before becoming the leader of political party that has been associated with anti-Semitism.
“Jewish members of the Labour Party have come together in anger and frustration to make it clear to the leadership that enough really must be enough,” said Labour member Ruth Smeeth.
