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Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn’s Jihad Against Israel (Part II)

Sep 24, 2018 12:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

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 (one of the masterminds of the Munich killings), is an appalling creature. His refusal to visit Israel, even if only to visit Yad Vashem (or would that be, in Corbyn’s view, unwise because it might create too much sympathy for the Jews?) also rankles.

Most recently, he has expressed his doubts about the Labour Party’s decision to adopt, after having first rejected, the definition of antisemitism formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Committee. That decision was praised by many, including Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Corbin, however, remains deeply worried, afraid that this might limit criticism of Israel, the country he loves to hate. He thinks it should not be considered antisemitic to “describe Israel, its policies or the circumstances around its foundation as racist because of their discriminatory impact.” What “discriminatory impact” is that? That the Jews dared to defend themselves when attacked by five Arab armies? That many Arabs chose to leave Mandatory Palestine in order to get out of the way of the combatants, sure that they would soon be returning when the Arab side triumphed, and then did not return? That the Jews actually won, their tiny state survived, and despite many attempts to destroy Israel, it is still standing? For Corbyn, Israel’s existence is irremediably “racist,”and has always been so, while his friends in Hamas and Hezbollah, whose leaders have promised to kill all the Jews, are fine fellows.

The attempts to drive out of the Labour Party such supporters of Israel as Joan Ryan, Frank Field, and Margaret Hodge, or failing that, to marginalize them, will only push the party further, and irremediably, to the far left. The prominent Labour backbencher, Chuka Umunna, has claimed that the “row over antisemitism” has pushed his party’s MPs “to the breaking point.” Tony Blair has said he doesn’t think the party can be taken back from Corbyn and his claque. Jewish voters, long loyal to Labour, are finally leaving the party in droves.

On the other hand, why should Corbyn care? Muslims now outnumber Jews in Great Britain 4-to-1, and Corbyn’s hostility to Israel, and to Jews, is a sure vote-getter among this immigrant group, which already helped elect from Labour’s ranks the current Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

And for those in Great Britain who see a moral difference between Israel and its enemies Hamas and Hezbollah — but precisely in the opposite way from Jeremy Corbyn — the most disturbing news of all is that despite his honoring of dead terrorists and embrace of live ones, despite his war on long-term Labour friends of Israel who have described his views as “antisemitic” and “grotesque,” despite his insistence that Israel has been “racist” from its beginning, Jeremy Corbyn is still leading in the polls. Were he to be elected Prime Minister, that would be a nightmare not only for Israel but also for the United States. Jeremy Corbyn, the farthest-left of any British candidate for Prime Minister in at least a century, does not like the United States, and should he be elected, the Americans can forget about that “special relationship.”

That’s the bad news. The good news is that the next general election in the U.K. will not be held until May 2022. That’s a long way away, and in Corbyn’s “antisemitism row,” the forces arrayed against him now include the last two Labour Prime Ministers, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, the leaders of three important unions, Usdaw (the shop workers’ union), Unison (the public service workers’ union), and the GMB (a general trade union), and the Labour Friends of Israel. All of these have called on Corbyn to accept without reservations the definition of antisemitism that would cover Corbyn’s own attacks on Israel as “racist” since its “foundation.”

Corbyn can continue on his course, pushing his party ever more leftward, ever more anti-Israel in its policies and antisemitic in its attitudes. But he is making a lot of enemies along he way, and not just among Labour Friends of Israel. Many find his attacks on Israel so unhinged as to amount to antisemitism. The former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips — a black man — has claimed the Labour Party is now “led by anti-Semites and racists.” Mr. Phillips, who served as a Labour member of the London Assembly for three years, said that rows about anti-Semitism are “killing our party.” Phillips said: “It doesn’t help that one of our great parties, the one I belong to, is led by anti-Semites and racists who basically want to eliminate anyone” who disagrees with them.

A prominent backbencher, who pulled out of the race for Labour Party leader in 2015, though he was then deemed the front-runner (he thought he was “not ready”) but remains a serious potential challenger to Corbyn, is Chuka Umunna. The son of a Nigerian Christian immigrant who then returned to Nigeria to campaign against corruption, Umunna is an M.P. for Streatham, and at 39, already a leader in the party. He now accuses his own Labour Party of “institutional racism.” By that, Mr. Ukwunna makes clear he means antisemitism: “It’s very painful for me to say that. Part of the reason that I joined the Labour party, that my family supported the party, was because it was an anti-racist party. I think the failure to deal with the racism that is antisemitism is particular, and clearly is a problem.”

“The racism that is antisemitism” is a formulation that must startle Jeremy Corbyn. Furthermore, he is no doubt discombobulated by these attacks coming from two black men, Phillips and Umunna. This isn’t supposed to happen. For Corbyn, “Zionism is racism,” Jews are Zionists, ergo Jews are racists. What are black people doing attacking others for antisemitism? Why do they even care? This makes no sense to the limited likes of Jeremy Corbyn.

It’s 3 1/2 years to the next election. Enough time for Corbyn to alienate still others — there’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip — and for Umunna, should he wish, to enter the lists against him. Keep your eye on Umunna. For not only is he on the right side in the antisemitism row, but one has reason to suspect that he is also opposed to Corbyn on the subject of Islam. The Nigerian Christians, after all, have been for a long time on the receiving end of Jihads against them unleashed by northern Muslims. The deadliest of these Jihads has been what has entered history as the Biafra War. It lasted from 1967 to 1970, and was intended to crush the Christians’ independent state, that had been declared in response to Muslim pogroms against Christians in Nigeria’s north. The Muslims had military assistance from fellow Muslims — Egyptian Migs strafed the helpless Christian villagers — while the Biafrans did receive far less aid, mostly small arms, from a handful of countries, but were otherwise on their own. After two million Christians starved to death, the Biafrans finally surrendered. Today again, Boko Haram and Fulani cattle-herders have revived the Jihad against the Christians in northern and central Nigeria. Chuka Umunna knows this history, and as a consequence, unlike Jeremy Corbyn, he cannot possibly be a fan or friend of Jihadis or of Islam. He knows too much. And there is another possible influence on his views: his maternal grandfather was High Court judge and Nuremberg Trial prosecutor Sir Helenus Milmo. It is safe to assume that Chuka Umunna’s mother would have told him about her father prosecuting the Nazis in that most famous of trials, and, in detail, about those Nazi crimes. Surely that would have made Chuka Umunna keenly sensitive to any display of antisemitism.

It would indeed be something if a British Prime Minister named Chuka Umunna were to undo the damage that his white predecessors Blair and May, eager to show their deep commitment to diversity, did to the country by allowing in so many Muslim migrants. Black himself, Chuka Umunna doesn’t have to prove anything about racism or the supposed need to make Britain “more diverse.” He can, instead, do what Theresa May thinks she can’t do: he can take a sensible hard line on Muslim migrants. He has, after all, his own family’s experiences — handed down to him in stories — of living with Muslims in Nigeria, experiences which surely have left a deep impression. And it will be fascinating to see, if Umunna does challenge Corbyn, how Muslims rally round their devoted champion and accuse Umunna of “racism” because he does not, the way Jeremy Corbyn does, consign Israel to the outer darkness.

 

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  1. Michael Villano says

    Sep 24, 2018 at 2:04 pm

    European courts have already green lighted firebombing synagogues and attacking Jewish businesses.
    Corbyn getting elected in 2022 will only reenforce the Jew hatred of Europe that really hasn’t changed in 80 years.
    Europeans traded 6 million Jews for 20 million Arabs to convince themselves they outgrew their hatred.

    • Paul Calem says

      Sep 24, 2018 at 9:15 pm

      Not all Europeans. Just the leftwing dolts like Jeremy Corbyn, who have hijacked Europe.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 24, 2018 at 9:52 pm

      Um…what? The dhimmitude and Islamophilia in Europe *is* appalling, but what courts there have green lighted bombing synagogues and Jewish businesses? Citations, please.

    • Amnon says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 4:43 am

      Folks love to curate a storm in a teacup. This drama is wearing thin. And becoming a soap opera bigger than Dallas and dynasty.

    • J D S says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 11:53 am

      Idiots like this guy just don’t get it….Israel, in fact the Jews are a priority in God’s view..They are still special people to Him..Even though they rejected His Son as the Messiah and that’s a shame that they did..still He has set them aside as a special people..a side note…God blessed the Jews (Abraham) not the Muslims (Ishmael)

  2. yohanan says

    Sep 24, 2018 at 3:57 pm

    Link to yesterday’s part 1:
    Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn’s Jihad Against Israel (Part I). Jihad Watch. Sept 23, 2018 https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/hugh-fitzgerald-jeremy-corbyns-jihad-against-israel-part-i

    3.5 years to next general election in UK unless another “snap election”?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_election

    Here’s hoping that UK Labour Party primaries elections (when? and how?) may bring change.

  3. Billy Corr says

    Sep 24, 2018 at 5:50 pm

    This article needs to be completely rewritten.

    Actually, Jezbollah HAS been to Israel but he made a point of only talkig to people opposed to the very existence of Israel.

    • yohanan says

      Sep 24, 2018 at 6:12 pm

      “his refusal to visit Israel”

      (Yes. Here’s link re Corbyn’s not meeting Israeli and Jewish sides and Israel state institutions when he was in Israel in 2010.)

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/corbyn-met-terror-leaders-but-not-jews-on-trip-to-israel-in-2010/

    • Hugh Fitzgerald says

      Sep 24, 2018 at 8:30 pm

      Sorry to have misled myself, and then others, about Corbyn. I took the information from a site that quoted a Jewish leader (Jonathan Goldstein) chiding Corvyn for not visiting Israel. I took this to mean he had never visited Israel. i stand corrected, and abashed.

      Of course in a deeper sense Corbyn, though physically in Israel on his trip in 200, sponsored by the Friends of Al-Aqsa, did not visit Israel. He did not meet with Israelis; he did not visit any Jewish sites; he did not go to Yad Vashem.

      Here is Corbyn’s itinerary on that trip::

      Contents

      PAGE Day One ISRAEL
      Umm el-Fahm Municipality meeting with the mayor 7
      Dr Jamal Zahalka – Palestinian Knesset member 9
      Janan Abdu- Makhoul (the wife of Palestinian political prisoner Ameer Makhoul) in Haifa

      Day Two OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM
      Silwan – Al-Bustan solidarity tent 12 Tour of Al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan (house demolitions) 15
      Sheikh Jarrah (house evictions) 17
      Jerusalemite Palestinian Legislative Council members -19
      International Red Cross compound

      Day Three NEGEV DESERT

      ISRAEL
      Talab El-Sana – Palestinian Knesset member 20
      Regional Council of Unrecognised Villages (The Bedouin of the Negev Desert) 21f
      The unrecognised village of Waadi Naam 22
      Bedouin city of Rahat in the Negev (mosque demolition) 25
      Demonstration against the destruction of Al-A’raqeeb 27
      The unrecognised village Al-A’raqeeb –(multiple destruction) 28

      YAFA (JAFFA)

      Sami Abu Shahade 28 Dr Mustafa Barghouthi

      And that was Corbyn’s visit to….Israel?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 24, 2018 at 9:53 pm

      Thank you, Billy, yohanan, and Hugh.

  4. Andy says

    Sep 24, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    Jeremy Corbyn Should Visit the Forgotten and Beleaguered White Working Class of Kensington

  5. gravenimage says

    Sep 24, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn’s Jihad Against Israel (Part II)
    ………………..

    He’s a nasty piece of work who actually makes even the egregious Theresa May look decent in comparison. I pray he is never Prime Minister.

  6. Hari Singh says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 2:45 am

    Corbyn fears the definition of antisemitism formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Committee as he may well fit that description.
    In every historical epoch the reasons for antisemitism differ; religion, alleged killing of Christ, Race and now the right to self-determination. But the goal remains the same to kill and or destroy the Jews.
    In his typical smug manner he thinks its a smart political move, but as Muslims continue to attack Jews in Europe, Brits may well have enough sympathy to see that the enemy of my enemy is my friend and vote out antisemetic candidates and Partys.

  7. Max says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 4:56 am

    The worry is not that socialist-extremists, Jew-haters like Corbyn exist, they have always existed. The real worry is that there are enough demented fanatics to get him elected.

  8. Paddy OConnor says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    Perfidious Albion personified.

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