Corbyn won’t apologise for Jewish meal
DIVIDING Jews into those Jeremy Corbyn should and should not meet is a dangerous twist in the anti-Semitism row.
JEREMY Corbyn has robustly defended his Passover meal with a controversial Jewish group.
The Labour leader called his Seder celebration with Jewdas a “good thing” despite the anger of other Jewish groups.
Mr Corbyn insisted: “It was very interesting talking to young people and I learnt a lot. Isn’t that a good thing?”
His defence came after Momentum founder Jon Lansman, who is Jewish, said Labour supporters often fail to realise the hurt caused by anti-Semitism.
He urged Mr Corbyn, and others on Labour’s national executive, to have training to tackle the issue.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: “He wrote to the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council last week to ask for an urgent meeting to discuss tackling anti-Semitism.”
But ex-Labour peer Alan Sugar last night said: “This man will not make a positive statement about [anti-Semitism], which leads me to believe he is condoning it, quite frankly.”
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The unpleasant whiff of political opportunism was detected in some of the hysterical attacks on the Labour leader for attending a Passover religious Seder supper hosted by the radical Jewdas group in his Islington backyard.
Anti-Semitism is vile bigotry and Corbyn should have acted earlier to stamp out any trace of it infecting his party. But his enemies inside and outside of Labour are unwise to whip up controversies to score political points.
Genuine efforts to eradicate prejudice will be undermined by confected divisions.