Britain’s left has a ‘Jewish problem’
CNN - 07/05/2016
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any worse for Jeremy Corbyn, in a week in which he lost a no-confidence vote and saw most of his shadow cabinet resign, the beleaguered leader of Britain’s Labour Party provoked instant outrage and stirred the simmering debate about anti-Semitism in his party by seeming to equate Israel with ISIS.
Corbyn is likely not anti-Semitic. But his statement is symptomatic of the Labour Party’s — and, more broadly, the British left’s — Jewish problem.
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any worse for Jeremy Corbyn, in a week in which he lost a no-confidence vote and saw most of his shadow cabinet resign, the beleaguered leader of Britain’s Labour Party provoked instant outrage and stirred the simmering debate about anti-Semitism in his party by seeming to equate Israel with ISIS.
Corbyn is likely not anti-Semitic. But his statement is symptomatic of the Labour Party’s — and, more broadly, the British left’s — Jewish problem.
