After meeting with Jewish leaders about the problem of anti-Semitism in the British Labor party, its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, announced that he is “absolutely committed to rooting out anti-Semitism from our party and our society.” But Stephen Pollard, judging Corbyn by his deeds rather than his words, argues that the Labor leader will continue to do nothing about the problem. He explains why:
[A]nti-Semites hate Jews because they see them as clever, sly, and wily. They think Jews secretly run the world. Hence the constant references to the supposed Rothschild control of the world’s banks, Jewish control of the media, and wars fought to further Jewish interests. This is where left-wing and right-wing anti-Semitism meet. The hard left regards the world as being run by a Western elite and by powerful interest groups, which need to be broken up by revolution. See how the anti-Semitic idea of the Jews fits into this?
[Such thinking] also explains part of the visceral hatred of Israel on the hard left. As a Westernized capitalist democracy, they regard it as another arm of oppression to be smashed. This is the milieu in which Jeremy Corbyn has existed for decades. He may not hold these views himself but he still doesn’t see anti-Semitism as a real form of racism. That is why the idea that Corbyn could ever act as a “militant ally against anti-Semitism,” as he put it recently, is so much hot air. . . .
Next week, one of Corbyn’s closest allies, the parliamentarian Chris Williamson, is due to speak at a meeting alongside Jackie Walker, who is currently suspended from the Labor party for alleged anti-Semitism. . . . All [Corbyn] need do is say to Chris Williamson: “If you go [to that meeting], I will denounce you.”
When [doing] that was put to him at the meeting [with Jewish leaders], Corbyn shrugged.
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