Corbyn commemorating Passover with Jewdas is like May sharing communion with Westboro Baptist Church

Apr 3, 2018 by

by Archbishop Cranmer:

The revelation that Jeremy Corbyn chose to commemorate Pesach (Passover) with the far-left, anti-Israel extremist group Jewdas is incredible – literally incredible. Why would the Labour leader choose to celebrate the most important feast day in the Jewish calendar with a group of Jew-hating, Israel-loathing, hate-spouting extremists? How could any leader of a main UK political party – especially a putative potential prime minister – be so insensitive to the offence and blind to the optics?

 

Stephen Pollard is Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. According to Jewdas he is a “non-Jew”. The Guido Fawkes blog as an overview of Jewdas dogma:

  • Jewdas describes itself as a “radical” group that “opposes capitalism” and wants to “overthrow the state”
  • It has tweeted that “Israel is itself a steaming pile of sewage which needs to be properly disposed of”
  • It is viciously critical of mainstream Jewish groups. Last week it attacked the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council response to the Labour anti-Semitism scandal as “playing a dangerous game with people’s lives”
  • It dismissed the Labour anti-Semitism scandal as a “bout of faux-outrage” 
  • It claimed the anti-Semitism row “is the work of cynical manipulations by people whose express loyalty is to the Conservative Party and the right wing of the Labour Party”
  • In a blog post on its website four days ago, it labelled Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard a “non-Jew”

Surely if Jeremy Corbyn wanted to listen to and engage with the Jewish community, he might have chosen to sup with the Board of Deputies or the Jewish Leadership Council? It makes no sense for a democratic leader – in the midst of an onslaught of allegations of antisemitism (“or any kind of racism”) – to give credence to those allegations by breaking bread with extremists and tarnishing himself by association, does it? Unless Stephen Pollard is correct, and Jeremy Corbyn is fully aware of how it looks and what it means, and is effectively sticking two fingers up to mainstream British Jewry.

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Audio of the event reveals “booing of mainstream Jews”, Daily Mail

Jewdas is a “provocative far-left group” and “anti-Israel”, The Times (£)

Group of academics “condemn anti-Corbyn bias” – Guardian

 

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