Posted on 09/06/2018 4:49:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
The UK Labour Party has been charged with spewing anti-Semitic sentiments in recent years. In a 2013 speech at the Palestinian Return Center in London, for instance, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the following:
Where, then, lies the grievance with Corbyn? At that meeting on Sunday, Jewish Labourites were not opposing the party leader for championing the Palestinians. They were opposing him for, to take one example, his 2013 attack on a group of “Zionists” he’d encountered, where he tackled them not on their arguments but on ethnic grounds, noting that despite “having lived in this country for a very long time, they don’t understand English irony”.
The implication of that remark is clear – and it has nothing to do with defending Palestinians. It’s that Corbyn sees Jews as fundamentally alien, foreigners who might live here a long time, might even be born here, but are still essentially other. People who will never be truly English. (The Guardian)
Former UK Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has called Corbyn a dangerous anti-Semite, even going so far as to say that Jews were not safe in the country.
“We can only judge Jeremy Corbyn by his words and his actions,” Sacks said. “He has given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate who want to kill Jews and remove from Israel from the map.”
Having to explain his 2013 remarks, Corbyn said he used the word "Zionist" in "the accurate political sense and not as a euphemism for Jewish people.”
With his history of anti-Semitic remarks, perhaps this new poll from The Jewish Council is not all that surprising. The group found that nearly 40 percent of British Jews would "seriously consider emigrating" if Corbyn became prime minister.
Asked to react to two statements, “If Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister I would seriously consider emigrating” and “…I would not seriously consider emigrating”, 38.53 per cent of the 710 British Jews who were quizzed for the survey said they would consider emigrating.
At this week's Prime Minister Questions in the House of Commons, with the poll in context, Theresa May said, “Jewish people living in this country should feel safe and secure – and not have to worry about their futures in their own country.
In an attempt to defuse some of the criticism, the Labour Party recently adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism.
Is he kidding? The Jewish people have been in England for centuries. What on earth is going on over there?
This is related and worth the watch. I admire Maureen L. When I lived in the UK, she was in “Oklahoma” on the West End while I was acting in it in a small theater group locally. She has spunk!
She has left the Labour Party.
The elites embraced Islam. That’s the problem.
Jews don’t understand irony?! Listen to a Jewish stand-up comic. Watch old Hollywood movies written and directed by Jews. Ponder the cliche that if you pose a question to three Jews you will get four different responses. The Jews are filled with irony. The Torah is filled with irony. The Quran? Not as much.
Of course, I never thought of an understanding of British irony as the essential trait of belonging to England.
I don't know anything about British politics or its Labor Party, but this "I'm leaving the country if this candidate I don't like wins!" tantrum stuff is a quadrennial tradition here among our celebrities and leftists.
If he’s bad, he’s bad.
I’d be very careful in today’s climate trying to trust the media.
I’d have to see a full speech to make sure they aren’t trashing him just because he’s a nationalist.
What has he said about the clear and present danger Islam represents in London for instance?
Jeremy Corbin is a communist.
He speaks of himself in the third person? An imperial type, eh?
Thanks. I obviously didn’t know any thing about him.
Man, they’re having some troubles with leadership over there.
Don’t count on it.
+1
My friend.............He is nuts.
Yes they are, the only option ( and he’s not the greatest ) is Boris. He could be great but needs schooling and would be a much better helper to Trump
Islam is winning in UK.
Im sure they will leave just like all the liberals that left when Trump was elected.
Jew-killing is a Euro speciality.
I know but he is saying they are not English, they are outsiders. My point is they have been there for centuries and belong there.
Forty percent — is that all? No true son of Israel should remain in that decaying county, where self defense lands you in jail.
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