The
Labour leader's opponents don't care about anti-Semitism. They'll
just do anything to remove Corbyn
by
David Hearst
Every
day you log on, you ask yourself how much dirtier the campaign to
unseat Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party is going to get,
how much lower his enemies are going to sink. And each day they
surpass themselves in the race to the gutter of British politics.
Last
week, Britain's three Jewish newspapers, who usually feud with each
other, joined forces to post a joint editorial declaring that a
Corbyn-led government would pose "an existential threat" to
British Jews.
Part
1 - The campaign's real purpose
On
Saturday, the Daily Mail claimed that Corbyn had laid a wreath at the
grave of two Palestinians who had allegedly organised the Munich
Olympic massacre. Today the mass circulation tabloid, The Sun, ran
two pieces in the same edition. One was a "letter’s special"
declaring that Boris Johnson was "bang on" when he said
that women who wear burqas resemble letter boxes or bank robbers:
"Boris must be allowed to speak honestly, he has nothing to
apologise for."
Just
imagine what would have happened if Corbyn had mocked the Kippah,
overtly and brazenly, in a national newspaper.
The
other was an editorial saying that Corbyn was unfit to be Labour
leader and "cannot be allowed near government". At least -
at last- we are arriving at the purpose of this campaign. It is clear
now it has nothing to do with the actual and verifiable state of
anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, or Corbyn turning up at cemeteries
in Tunis in 2014 for Palestinian refugees.
It is
crystal clear that its purpose is to take out the leader of the
opposition by using the tactics of fascists - smearing, libelling,
intimidating.
Unable
to put up a candidate capable of defeating him by democratic means,
at the ballot box, unable to attack him on his polices for which
there is majority support in the country, Corbyn's detractors have
methodically and consistently set about the task of character
assassination.
And, of
course, it works.
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