Last Friday, upon the start of Shabbat, Britain’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn published an op-ed in The Guardian confronting accusations of anti-Semitism under his watch as leader of the party. What starts off as a welcoming letter of understanding quickly devolves into an exercise in distortion and excuses. Instead of acknowledging the trauma he and…
Over the past two weeks, Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labor party, has faced renewed accusations of anti-Semitism. This latest escalation of the seemingly irresolvable brouhaha comes in the wake of a new code of conduct and definition of anti-Semitism that Labor has taken on to address protests from Jewish groups. But far from…
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn said he respects the affinity many Jewish feel for Israel and appealed to critics to resolve differences over his Labour Party’s policy on anti-Semitism that has drawn fire. Critics of the policy say it downplays hostility to Jews expressed as criticism of Israel. “I fully understand and respect the strong affection…
The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said on Friday there was a “real problem” of anti-Semitism in his party which he would root out, but he also hit back at strong criticism of Labour from Jewish newspapers. In an article written for The Guardian newspaper, Corbyn stopped short of agreeing to adopt…
One of the most important questions facing Jews on the Left today is whether there is a difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. It gets at the heart of dual, sometimes-paradoxical commitments: on the one hand, to be a member of a once persecuted and sometimes still persecuted minority; on the other hand, to use what…
Last week, the three Jewish newspapers in Britain made a point of publishing the same front page editorial to highlight the “existential threat to Jewish life” that a Jeremy Corbyn-led government would pose to British Jews. I am a life-long Labour supporter, a 52-year-old British Jew, born and bred in the outer suburbs of London…
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…
The British Labour Party has enjoyed a massive surge in membership and its best electoral success in decades under Jeremy Corbyn, the maverick socialist who rose from obscurity to capture its leadership in 2015. But since Corbyn’s election, Labour has been marred by an anti-Semitism problem that is now tearing the party apart. An anti-Semitic…
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