(Jewish Group) Labour's social media sickness is now endemic to the party

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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

It is not pleasant to be Jewish on social media these days. I have come to dread logging online after Shabbat and seeing the latest comments by supporters of Labour, the supposedly “anti-racist party”.

This week was no exception.

There was the sharing by the far-left blog Skwawkbox of an article titled: The Jewish ‘War Against Corbyn’ risks bringing real antisemitism to Britain.

The article asked: “What if Corbyn loses by a narrow margin? How will the millions who voted for him see the Jewish community and its three-year campaign to brand him toxic?”

It is hard not to see the traditional Christian antisemitic trope of blaming Jews for killing Jesus.

Skwawkbox had called the article “pertinent and frightening”, but subsequently deleted its tweet, noting it had “caused offence”. The blog’s author changed the title from “Jewish” to “Jewish establishment” as if to somehow make it more palatable.

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Labour needs to get their shit together! I have heard less anti-Semitic shit from far-right wing outlets!

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Why Corbynism Is a Threat to Jews Throughout the Western World

The excellent political commentator of The New Statesman, Stephen Bush, summed up on Wednesday the ongoing "shitshow" of Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

"The issue at stake," he wrote, on the basis of what he hears from well-placed sources in the party leadership, "is that Corbyn himself regards the row as a foreign policy issue, confined to the question of how Labour members can talk about Israel, while his critics primarily see it as a domestic issue, confined to the need to reassure British Jews of Labour’s intentions."

The critics, by this point, are not solely Corbyn’s opponents from what was once Labour’s mainstream, but include some of his staunchest supporters, astonished at how their leader has for weeks now refused to act to defuse an increasingly damaging political crisis.

You can tell a lot about a politician by the hills he is prepared to die on. For three weeks, as the relationship between Labour and the Jewish community has sunk to unprecedented depths, Corbyn has refused to be interviewed on the issue or do anything to personally reach out to the community.

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