Labour and Corbyn

In your March 28 report on the protest meeting held in London (“‘Words no longer enough – we need action’”), you quote from an open letter from the umbrella organizations of British Jewry to Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour party:

“Again and again, Jeremy Corbyn has sided with antisemites rather than Jews. At best, this derives from the far Left’s obsessive hatred of Zionism, Zionists and Israel. At worst, it suggests a conspiratorial worldview in which mainstream Jewish communities are believed to be a hostile entity, a class enemy.”

While I, of course, do not agree with any of its theses, I think the “logic” of the far-Left regarding Jews is derived from the following four propositions:

1. Zionism is racism, as declared by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 adopted on November 10, 1975. The resolution was revoked only in 1991 because of pressure by international Jewry, which works behind the scenes to achieve world domination.

2. Zionists distort the Holocaust by exaggerating the number of Jewish victims and ignoring non-Jewish victim, and then use this to whitewash Israel’s genocide of the native Palestinians.

3. Most Jewish groups support Zionism and vilify those Jews who have the courage to support the Palestinians. They also use accusations of antisemitism as a means for suppressing any criticism of the apartheid policies of the Israeli state.

4. Jews are not a race, so anti-racists can dislike them for the above reasons.

If this analysis is correct, the far-Left is clearly antisemitic and its socialism is, to all intents and purposes, of the “National” variety.