Top UK rabbi blasts Corbyn
BRITAIN’S chief rabbi says Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to be elected prime minister next month due to his failure to handle anti-Jewish hatred in the Labour Party.
In an extraordinary intervention into the UK election campaign, the nation’s top Jewish cleric, Ephraim Mirvis, told
The Times of London that Mr Corbyn’s claims he had dealt with anti-Semites in his party were a “mendacious fiction”.
Jewish Labour activists have already promised to campaign against their own leader due to his own anti-Semitic comments and his connections with antiJewish terror groups. Rabbi Mirvis writes in The
Times that a “poison” has taken hold of the Labour leadership and that he wants all voters to examine their consciences before they vote.
“How complicit in prejudice would a leader of Her Majesty’s opposition have to be to be considered unfit for office?” Rabbi Mirvis writes. “Would associations with those who have incited hatred against Jews be enough? Would describing as ‘friends’ those who endorse the murder of Jews be enough? It seems not. It is not my place to tell any person how they should vote. I regret being in this situation at all.
“I simply pose the question: What will the result of this election say about the moral compass of our country? When December 12 arrives, I ask every person to vote with their conscience. Be in no doubt, the very soul of our nation is at stake.”
The Labour Leader has been slow to kick out Labour MPs and activists close to him who have said offensive things about Jewish people.
Mr Corbyn himself has been dogged by allegations he is also anti-Semitic. The Labour Leader in 2012 protested the removal of a street mural showing elderly Jewish men playing Monopoly on the back of bodies.
In August 2018, Jewish groups criticised him for supporting a parliamentary motion calling for Holocaust Memorial Day to be renamed “Genocide Memorial Day”.
Multiple Jewish Labour MPs have left the party over antiSemitism and other Jewish Labour stalwarts have had their preselections challenged by Mr Corbyn’s far-left socialist supporters for criticising his handling of anti-Jewish hatred.