At the Liverpool Labour Party Conference, Jeremy Corbyn quoted a 19th-century Chartist (a member of a movement to gain political rights for workers, including universal male suffrage, which flourished in England between 1838 and 1848; for more see here), one Ernest Jones, on the subject of workers who, according to Corbyn, “know the reality and […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn and Laura Alvarez, Salon Bolsheviks
Here’s a biographical bit about Jeremy Corbyn: Jeremy Corbyn was born in Chippenham, England, in May 1949. He was raised in considerable comfort at Yew Tree Manor, on the Duke of Sutherland’s estate, a “splendid house” which he likes to refer deprecatingly as “an old farm,” part of his downplaying of his upper middle-class background. […]
Howard Jacobson on Jeremy Corbyn: “Spiteful, Sanctimonious, and Obdurate”
Howard Jacobson is an English novelist, and a very funny man, in a Larry-David sort of way. His protagonists are, like himself, English Jews. Recently he delivered himself of some observations — he’s an observant Jew — on the subject of Jeremy Corbyn. He was taking part in a debate on whether the Labour leader […]
Just When You Thought Corbyn Couldn’t Get Any Worse
The horror is here: “Corbyn Vows to Immediately Recognize a Palestinian State If Elected,” by Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner, September 26, 2018: Speaking at the British Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool, leader Jeremy Corbyn announced that he will immediately recognize a Palestinian state if he is elected prime minister. At the same time, Corbyn sought to reassure […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: I’ve Been Unfair to Jeremy Corbyn
The other day I posted a piece on Jeremy Corbyn (here and here), in which I wrote of “his refusal to visit Israel.” I was misinformed, and passed on that misinformation to others. I stand abashed and chagrined. To make things right, it is only fair that I give you a full rundown on Jeremy […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn’s Jihad Against Israel (Part II)
Jeremy Corbyn, the self-described “friend” of Hamas and Hezbollah whose representatives he invited to speak in Parliament, who at a graveyard in Tunisia stood right beside one convicted terrorist and a few feet away from a second terrorist (a leader of Black September), while intoning an Islamic prayer over the gravesite of still a third […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn’s Jihad Against Israel (Part I)
In Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn and his willing collaborators in the Labour Party continue their ferocious attacks on anyone in the party who still supports Israel. In the first week of September, a vote of no-confidence against Joan Ryan, the head of Labour Friends of Israel, passed 94-92 among local party members. Frank Field, another […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn, Or Degringolade at Downing Street?
Jeremy Corbyn, who has done everything he can to deny both his own antisemitism, and the antisemitism of many members of the Labor Party that he now heads, has lately been having a tough time of it. He does, of course, have his admirers: In a Twitter post, Hamas wrote: “We salute Jeremy Corbyn’s supportive […]
UK’s Corbyn attends tribute for Munich Olympics jihad murderers, joins in Islamic prayer
Here is the UK’s next Prime Minister demonstrating why Britain is finished. “Corbyn’s wreath at Munich terrorists’ graves: Photos show Labour leader at tribute event for Palestine ‘martyrs’… including plotters behind 1972 slaughter of Israeli Olympic athletes,” by Emine Simnaz, Daily Mail, August 11, 2018 (thanks to David): A memorial wreath in his hand, Jeremy […]
UK: Corbyn government would pose an “existential threat to Jewish life,” say three major Jewish newspapers
The Left in Britain, as well as in the United States, has been growing increasingly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic, and now this throws down the gauntlet. Will Corbyn and Labour repudiate anti-Semitism and dedicate themselves sincerely to the defense of the Jewish community in the UK, or will they continue to embrace the growing Muslim community […]