Corbyn was ‘too stupid’ to tackle anti-Semitism
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JEREMY CORBYN was ‘too unemotional or too stupid’ to understand claims that he has failed to combat anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, it has been claimed.
The Labour leader is described as ‘bored, uninterested and condescending’ in a leaked account of his meeting with Jewish leaders last month to discuss the issue.
It suggests he lacks the ‘emotional or intellectual ability’ to comprehend their demands for more action to tackle the problem.
By contrast, he sprang into life with a ‘convulsion’ when told that his support for a ‘two state solution’ in the rift between Israel and Palestine meant he was a ‘Zionist’.
The withering pen portrait of Mr Corbyn’s behaviour is contained in a leaked account of his meeting with the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) and the Jewish Leadership Council at his Commons office four weeks ago.
The document was drawn up by a Jewish leader who attended the meeting, where Mr Corbyn was called on to take tougher measures to stamp out anti-Semitism in the Labour ranks.
At the time, Jewish representatives issued a statement saying they hoped he would show more ‘passion and enthusiasm’ in dealing with the issue.
But the leaked account, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, shows that their private view was more critical – and reveals clashes between Mr Corbyn and Jewish representatives.
It states: ‘[Mr Corbyn’s] body language was hard to read. He was not especially animated. It may have been pensive, or bored and uninterested.
‘He replied with pre-prepared statements in a monotone. It suggested an emotional, political or intellectual inability to improvise suitable responses.
‘Most of the time he had his chin on his hand and a facial expression somewhere between scepticism, concentration and non-interest.’
A Labour spokesman said: ‘Jeremy made clear [at the meeting] his absolute commitment to rooting out anti-Semitism from our party.’ A HARD-lEFt group chaired by Jeremy Corbyn was last night accused of being part of a Kremlin disinformation campaign over the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
A document setting out secret ‘lines to take’ by pro-Moscow activists matches the lines used by the Stop the War group – founded by Andrew Murray, now a senior adviser to Mr Corbyn.
the MH17 briefing was among 4,000 leaked files obtained by Ukrainian activists from email accounts used by Kremlin aides. It says that a ‘basic line’ to be used on July 20-21, 2014, should be a ‘comparison of the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand’. the 1914 murder of the archduke sparked the First World War.
On July 21, when Mr Corbyn was chairman of Stop the War, it published an article headlined: ‘Flight MH17: Are we stumbling into world war like 100 years ago?’
the article dismissed claims Russia was responsible for the loss of MH17 and 298 lives. last week Dutch investigators laid the blame at the Kremlin’s door.
last night tory MP Bob Seely said: ‘Mr Corbyn was chairman. Did he know about this?’
A labour source said: ‘neither Andrew Murray nor Jeremy Corbyn were aware of the article. nobody should pay any attention to this fevered conspiracy theory.’