Is Corbyn really an antisemite?
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 2:32 pm
Since a lot of threads on here seem to be about UK politics, let's have another one! A lot of us even outside the UK will have seen the furore over Labour and its alleged antisemitism, to the point where Jewish leaders have said that Corbyn becoming Prime Minister would pose an "existential threat" to the of the Jewish community in the UK. Partly because he was too slow to clamp down on incidents of antisemitism in the past - which he has acknowledged and is doing something about. But mainly because he was reluctant to adopt parts of the IHRA definition of antisemitism relating specifically to the State of Israel. Corbyn's long-standing support for the Palestinian struggle means that he is probably opposed to Zionism. But does that in and of itself make him antisemitic? I would say, the new law in Poland on what you can and cannot say about the Holocaust is far more clearly antisemitic than support for Ahed Tamimi. But others disagree.