Bombarded
by disinformation campaigns, many British Jews are being misled into
seeing Corbyn as a threat rather than as the best hope of inoculating
Britain against the resurgence of right-wing anti-Semitism menace
by
Jonathan Cook
End-of-year
polls are always popular as a way to gauge significant social and
political trends over the past year and predict where things are
heading in the next. But a recent poll of European Jews – the
largest such survey in the world – is being used to paint a deeply
misleading picture of British society and an apparent problem of a
new, left-wing form of anti-semitism.
Part
1 - An anti-Semitism problem?
The
survey was conducted by the European Union's agency on fundamental
rights and was given great prominence in the liberal-left British
daily the Guardian. The newspaper highlighted one area of life in
which Britain scored worse with Jews than any of the other 12 member
states surveyed.
Some 84
per cent of Jews in the UK believe there is a major problem with
anti-Semitism in British politics. As a result, nearly a third say
they have considered emigrating – presumably most of them to
Israel, where the Law of Return offers an open-door policy to all
Jews in the world.
Britain
scored only slightly better on indices other than politics. Some 75
per cent said they thought anti-Semitism was generally a problem in
the UK, up from 48 per cent in 2012. The average score in the 12 EU
states with significant Jewish populations was 70 per cent.
Jeremy
Corbyn, head of the UK’s opposition Labour party, has faced a
barrage of criticism since he was elected leader more than three
years ago for presiding over a supposedly endemic anti-Semitism
problem in his party. The Guardian has been at the forefront of
framing Corbyn as either indifferent to, or actively assisting in,
the supposed rise of anti-semitism in Labour.
Now the
paper has a senior European politician echoing its claims.
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