Jeremy Corbyn can’t/won’t wash off the stink of anti-Semitism

Published September 5, 2018 3:24pm ET



Attempting to turn a page on a brutal anti-Semitism scandal, the British Labour Party on Monday accepted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.

Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn has been walloped again and again for his own penchant for anti-Semitic viewpoints, and his failure to counter anti-Semitism in Labour’s ranks. Indeed, Corbyn was recently found to have celebrated the lives of Palestinian terrorists. This has caused a revolt from Jewish members of parliament and other activists who believe the party deserves better. Yet Corbyn’s central problem has been that while his far-left base pathologically despises Israel, many British Jews have stated that they cannot see themselves voting for a Labour Party under his leadership.

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