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
10 - The real remedy
There is
a serious, if rarely explored, ideological tension between
Israeli-style Zionism and a progressive or liberal outlook, just as
there is between Orbanism and liberalism.
In a
political climate where European nativists are on the rise, the stark
choice facing Europe’s Jews is to double-down on their traditional
left-liberal worldview or abandon it entirely and throw their hat in
with Israel’s own nativists. Corbyn represents the first choice,
Netanyahu’s hardline Zionism the second.
Bombarded
by disinformation campaigns, it looks like many British Jews are
being misled into seeing Corbyn as a threat – of a confected
“left-wing anti-semitism” – rather than as the best hope of
inoculating Britain against the resurgence of a very real menace of
right-wing anti-semitism.
Jewish
emigration to Israel will make matters far worse. It will pander to
the prejudices of Europe’s white nationalists, weaken the European
left, and bolster an equally ugly Jewish nationalism that requires
the oppression of Palestinians.
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