The
Labour leader's opponents don't care about anti-Semitism. They'll
just do anything to remove Corbyn
by
David Hearst
Part
2 - Feeding the crocodile
Corbyn
is facing the biggest threat to his leadership since the "coup"
organised by his parliamentary party. He is also increasingly
isolated among his own supporters. John McDonnell, Corbyn's closest
ally, who shuns foreign policy, thinks this is not Labour's fight.
Emily Thornberry, his shadow foreign secretary, has not said a word.
Ed
Milliband, the former Labour leader under whose tenure anti-Semitism
was historically greater than during Corbyn's reign, has offered
little support. Union leaders are pealing away. Muslim groups do not
want to know. Corbyn is alone.
And the
result is that Corbyn feels he is left with no option but to back
down, apologise, accept the contentious "working examples"
of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition
of anti-semitism one by one, in a slow, painful retreat.
This is
a disastrous miscalculation. Corbyn's "apologies" for
crimes of which he is innocent, only feed the crocodile. As the
Georgians say: "Once you run out of chickens to throw to the
crocodile, it will have your arm." Whether Corbyn survives
this onslaught or not, everyone who is taking part, either wittingly
or unwittingly, in this campaign should beware of getting what they
want.
Whatever
happens to Corbyn, there are three victims of this dirty episode.
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