{"id":45129,"date":"2018-10-01T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45129"},"modified":"2018-09-30T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:46:40","slug":"britains-labour-party-under-jeremy-corbyn-has-become-a-force-for-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/britains-labour-party-under-jeremy-corbyn-has-become-a-force-for-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become a \u201cforce for antisemitism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugh Fitzgerald<\/a> on the British Labour Party’s slide into open anti-semitic actions under Jeremy Corbyn:<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party speaking at a Rally in Hayfield, Peak District, UK on 25th July 2018 in support of Ruth George MP.
Photo by Sophie Brown via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

In Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn and his willing collaborators in the Labour Party continue their ferocious attacks on anyone in the party who still supports Israel. In the first week of September, a vote of no-confidence against Joan Ryan, the head of Labour Friends of Israel, passed 94-92 among local party members. Frank Field, another long-serving MP and prominent supporter of Israel, resigned as whip to protest the Labour Party becoming a \u201cforce for antisemitism\u201d and for allowing a \u201cculture of nastiness, bullying and intimidation\u201d to develop; he was informed that as result he was no longer a member of the Party.<\/p>\n

As is well known, Jeremy Corbyn intensely dislikes Israel. He refers to members of Hamas and Hezbollah, on the other hand, as \u201cfriends.\u201d They feel the same about him. In a Twitter post, Hamas wrote: \u201cWe salute Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s supportive positions to the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n

When first accused of having honored dead terrorists at a graveside ceremony in Tunisia in October 2014, Corbyn denied that he had been anywhere near the graves of any terrorists, and he certainly had \u201cno memory\u201d of any wreath laying. Then some photographs surfaced. One of them shows Corbyn holding \u2014 with others \u2014 a large wreath. And the grave they are standing over turns out to have been that of one of those who planned the murder of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.<\/p>\n

Another photo of Jeremy Corbyn shows him posing in the same graveyard next to a convicted terrorist, Fatima Bernawi, who was given a life sentence for trying to blow up a Israeli cinema in 1967. While the attempted terror attack did not come off, Bernawi boasted that it was successful because it \u201cgenerated fear.\u201d Bernawi was later freed in a prisoner swap, and was thus able to attend the same terrorist-honoring graveside ceremony as Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n

Asked to explain what he was doing next to a convicted terrorist, Mr Corbyn\u2019s spokesman said: \u201cJeremy has a long and principled record of solidarity with the Palestinian people and engaging with actors in the conflict to support peace and justice in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hugh Fitzgerald on the British Labour Party’s slide into open anti-semitic actions under Jeremy Corbyn: In Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn and his willing collaborators in the Labour Party continue their ferocious attacks on anyone in the party who still supports Israel. In the first week of September, a vote of no-confidence against Joan Ryan, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,370,53],"tags":[304,291,1090,143],"class_list":["post-45129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-antisemitism","tag-israel","tag-jeremycorbyn","tag-labour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bJT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45131,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45129\/revisions\/45131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}