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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Dec 17, 2019, 06:30 AM Dec 2019

(Jewish Group) French far-left leader blames Israeli ruling party for Jeremy Corbyn's defeat

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Jeremy Corbyn said he lost Thursday’s elections due to hostile media and his refusal to commit to Brexit.

“Media attack,” the Labour Party leader wrote, has “an impact on the outcome.”

Corbyn’s critics dismissed his explanation as “delusional,” citing instead his radical left-wing views, calling Hamas and Hezbollah “his friends,” and perceived failure to address the florescence of anti-Semitism in Labour’s ranks under his leadership.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, a far-left politician from France who is often described as Corbyn’s counterpart there, had a different take: On Friday, posting on his Facebook page, Melenchon blamed “networks of influence from Likud,” the Israeli ruling party, before inveighing against French Jews.

“Instead of attacking” these networks and the chief rabbi of Britain, who said in a newspaper op-ed that Corbyn was “complicit in prejudice” against Jews, Corbyn “kept apologizing, giving the accusation play,” wrote Melenchon, who won 19 percent of the 2017 French presidential elections.

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I am shocked! Shocked, I tells ya!
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