{"id":243503,"date":"2016-05-14T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T10:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-palestinian-perspective-on-britains-anti-semitic-controversy\/"},"modified":"2016-05-14T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T10:35:43","slug":"a-palestinian-perspective-on-britains-anti-semitic-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-palestinian-perspective-on-britains-anti-semitic-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Palestinian Perspective on Britain\u2019s \u2018Anti-Semitic\u2019 Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a witch-hunt in the British Labour Party. Britain\u2019s Opposition party
\n leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism
\n in his party. Those leading the charge are pro-Israel
\n Zionists<\/a> and their supporters within the party, members who are mostly allied
\n with the former Prime Minister, the largely discredited pro-war Tony Blair.
\n The
\n Blairites are quite unhappy<\/a> that Corbyn, who won the party\u2019s leadership
\n election last September with a landslide victory is a non-elitist politician,
\n with a deep-rooted grassroots activist past, and, yes, a
\n strong stance for Palestinian rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corbyn has been subjected to all sorts of attacks and ridicule from his own
\n party, many members of which have been busy plotting to push him out, but remained
\n hesitant because of his popular appeal. The Labour party had, in fact, lost
\n much of its credibility since the days of Blair\u2019s \u201cNew Labour\u201d and following
\n the US lead in waging an immoral and illegal war on Iraq. Blair\u2019s supporters
\n changed the priorities of the party, which was \u201cLabour\u201d by name only. Corbyn\u2019s
\n advent galvanized
\n young people around fresh ideals<\/a>, and renewed the shaky faith of the party\u2019s
\n traditional supporters.<\/p>\n

But since he became a leader, the man\u2019s agenda of anti-corruption and greater
\n equality in Britain has been slowed down, or even entirely halted, by some most
\n bizarre controversies. He was attacked over such things as his supposed poor
\n sense of fashion<\/a>, his alleged
\n lack of patriotism<\/a>, and more. The attacks have been so ridiculous, yet omnipresent,
\n that they became the subject of popular memes and much satire.<\/p>\n

And when it all failed, he was hit with another manufactured controversy, that
\n of alleged anti-Semitism within his own party. The recent attacks have been
\n the most organized, yet. They involve Israel
\n supporters<\/a>, British politicians, the media<\/a>
\n and other sources.<\/p>\n

The media has tried to paint him as an embattled leader who is not able to
\n control the uncontainable Jewish hate oozing from his party members.<\/p>\n

British
\n Chief Rabbi<\/a>, Ephraim Mirvis, known for his strong support of Israel joined
\n the fray, charging that the lid has been lifted on bigotry within Labour and
\n that investigation into anti-Semitism must be more than a \u201csticker plaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigation and the preceding outcry of anti-Semitism, however, targeted
\n those who were critical of Israel, not Jews, in general, or Judaism. Former
\n London Mayor, Ken Livingstone<\/a>, who was suspended from Labour for suggesting
\n links between the Nazi party and early Zionists, was not making any reference
\n to Jews per se, and certainly not to Judaism. Arguably, if he was wrong, then
\n it is a mere question of history, not race.<\/p>\n

In its coverage of the controversy, even
\n the BBC<\/a>, delinks both concepts:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnti-Semitism is \u2018hostility and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There is a witch-hunt in the British Labour Party. Britain\u2019s Opposition party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism in his party. Those leading the charge are pro-Israel Zionists and their supporters within the party, members who are mostly allied with the former Prime Minister, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}