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
3 - Resurgent white nationalism
There
are good grounds for Jews to feel threatened in much of Europe at the
moment, with the return of ugly ethnic nationalisms that many assumed
had been purged after World War Two. And Brexit – Britain’s
planned exit from the European Union – does indeed appear to have
unleashed or renewed nativist sentiment among a section of the UK
population.
But such
prejudices dominate on the right, not the left. Certainly Corbyn, a
lifelong and very prominent anti-racism activist, has not been
stoking nativist attitudes.
The
unexplored assumption by the Guardian and the
rest of the corporate media, as well as by Jourova, is that the rise
in British Jews’ concerns about anti-semitism in politics refers
exclusively to Corbyn rather than a very different problem: Of a
resurgent white nationalism on the right.
But
let’s assume that they are correct that the poll solely registers
Jewish worries about Corbyn. A separate finding in the EU survey
underscored how Jewish opinion on anti-semitism and Corbyn may be far
less straightforward than Jourova’s presentation suggests – and
how precisely the wrong conclusions are likely to be drawn from the
results.
Buried
in the Guardian report was a starkly anomalous finding –
from Hungary.
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