Leaders of British Jewry blasted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an extraordinary letter yesterday, saying he had sided with anti-Semites “again and again” and now “enough is enough”.
The open letter from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council said the veteran leftist was “repeatedly found alongside people with blatantly anti-Semitic views” but “claims never to hear or read them”.
The bodies were set to protest outside parliament in London before delivering the letter to a meeting of Labour legislators.
“Today, leaders of British Jewry tell Jeremy Corbyn that enough is enough,” the letter says.
“We conclude that he cannot seriously contemplate anti-Semitism, because he is so ideologically fixed within a far-left worldview that is instinctively hostile to mainstream Jewish communities. Corbyn did not invent this form of politics, but he has had a lifetime within it, and now personifies its problems and dangers.”
The letter was triggered when a Facebook comment from 2012 came to light in which Mr Corbyn offered support to a street artist whose mural in east London depicting bankers playing Monopoly on the backs of the poor was about to be removed.
Read the article in The Australian (AFP)