Let anti-Semitism be Corbyn’s epitaph
THERE are three days to go before the British people decide whether this country should continue on a course guided by the principles of common sense and decency – or risk plunging into an abyss with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.
Hopefully, wisdom will prevail. Hopefully, Mr Corbyn’s political career will end on Friday and be marked by an epitaph recording for all time his shameful prevarications in dealing with anti-Semitism. For no issue more clearly illustrates why this man is utterly unfit to be Prime Minister.
He has led a political party in which some members have referred to Jews as a ‘cancer on us all’, as a ‘viral infection that needs to be completely eliminated’ or ‘bent-nose manipulative liars’. These comments come from the previously secret files of Labour’s own disciplinary department.
Let there be no scintilla of doubt: As leader, Mr Corbyn is directly responsible for allowing his party to degenerate into a cesspit of racial hatred in which obscene language like this – some of it surely meriting criminal prosecution – has been concealed and condoned.
No one should be convinced by his weasel excuses about internal inquiries needing time or his bland assurances that anti- Semitism will not be tolerated – because it quite obviously has been.
‘It’s the cover-up that always gets you’ is a well-worn political saying, most famously applied to Nixon and Watergate. But it’s true, and today it applies to Labour.
By equivocating over the word ‘sorry’, by leaving complaints unresolved for months, by handing out risibly lenient punishments – if any – Mr Corbyn exposes his real instincts, which have led him to befriend Hamas and Hezbollah.
By his cover-up of anti-Semitism, he has demonstrated that his core beliefs are fundamentally at odds with the mainstream values of this country.
In the name of everything most of us hold dear, and with so much at stake on Thursday, we urge our readers to keep Britain’s fate out of the hands of a man who has presided over such bigotry and hate.