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
5 - Understanding the paradox
There
is, however, a way to explain this paradox – and it has nothing to
do with anti-semitism.
Corbyn’s
socialist-lite agenda faces a devastating array of opponents that
include British business; the entire spectrum of the UK corporate
media, including its supposedly liberal components; and,
significantly in this case, the ultra-nationalist government of
Israel, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.
The
British establishment fears Corbyn poses a challenge to the further
entrenchment of neoliberal orthodoxy they benefit from. Meanwhile,
Israeli politicians loathe Corbyn because he has made support for the
Palestinian people a key part of his platform, becoming the first
European leader to prioritise a Palestinian right to justice over
Israel’s right to maintain its 51-year belligerent occupation.
Hungary’s
Viktor Orban, by contrast, is beloved of big business, as well as the
country’s mainstream media, and, again significantly, the Israeli
government. Rather than distancing himself from Orban and his
Jew-baiting electioneering in Hungary, Netanyahu has actually
sanctioned it. He has called Orban a “true friend of Israel”,
thanked him for "defending Israel", and joined the
Hungarian leader in denouncing Soros.
Netanyahu,
like Orban, intensely dislikes Soros’s liberalism and his support
for open borders. Netanyahu shares Orban’s fears that a flood of
refugees will disrupt his efforts to make his state as ethnically
pure as possible.
Earlier
this year, for example, Netanyahu claimed that Soros had funded human
rights organisations to help African asylum seekers in Israel avoid a
government programme to expel them. Netanyahu has many practical and
ideological reasons to support not only Orban but the new breed of
ultra-nationalist leaders emerging in states like Poland, Italy,
France and elsewhere.
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