The Jewish Leadership Council has stepped up its attack on Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of being a figurehead for antisemitism and presiding over a party that has no safe spaces for Jews.
Speaking before a protest outside a meeting of Labour MPs, Jonathan Goldstein, chairman of the council, said Corbyn’s apology for “pockets of antisemitism” in the party was not enough.
In an interview for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Goldstein said: “The time for words is over and the time for action is now important. The reality is there are no safe spaces online or in meetings for Jewish people within the Labour party.”
In a strongly-worded letter the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the council urged supporters to stage a show of solidarity outside parliament on Monday as Labour MPs hold their weekly meeting – which Corbyn is not planning to attend.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... tisemitism
Corbyn's chickens coming home to roost
Corbyn's chickens coming home to roost
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Corbyn's chickens coming home to roost
Corbyn has a substantial history of simpatico behavior and dog-whistling to anti-semitic elements in the UK, so I'd say he's something more than a "figurehead" to these toxic elements...
And his perfunctory denouncement rings about as sincere as when Trump finally brought himself to denounce the Klan...
Anti-semitism among some elements on the left has been growing phenomena in this country for several decades; there's a considerable amount of it here in the Bay Area...
And his perfunctory denouncement rings about as sincere as when Trump finally brought himself to denounce the Klan...
Anti-semitism among some elements on the left has been growing phenomena in this country for several decades; there's a considerable amount of it here in the Bay Area...
