Don't say that you weren't warned. Read the whole piece, it's on the money apart from... "I genuinely believe that Corbyn does not have an antisemitic bone in his body" - that now seems wishful thinking or delusional.
'Then there is Corbyn's apparent proximity to antisemitism. While I genuinely believe that Corbyn does not have an antisemitic bone in his body, he does have a proclivity for sharing platforms with individuals who do; and his excuses for doing so do not stand up.
Take the fact that Corbyn once described it as his "honour and pleasure" to host "our friends" from Hamas and Hezbollah in parliament. According to Corbyn, he extended his invitation to the aforementioned groups – and spoke of them glowingly – because all sides need to be involved in the peace process.
So far, so reasonable. Yet negotiation is not on Hamas's agenda, as Corbyn ought to know. In its charter Hamas states: "Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement… There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad."
It isn't a peaceful negotiated solution that Hamas wants; it's the destruction of the Jews. Here is a direct quote from Hamas's charter: "The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: 'The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!'" If this were not bad enough, Corbyn has also:
• Taken tea on the parliamentary terrace with Raed Salah, who he described as "a very honoured citizen" despite that fact that Salah was charged with inciting anti-Jewish racism and violence in January 2008 in Jerusalem and sentenced to eight months in prison. He was found by a British court judge to have used the "blood libel", the medieval antisemitic canard that Jews use gentile blood for ritual purposes;
• Written a letter defending Stephen Sizer, the vicar disciplined by the Church of England for linking to an article on social media entitled 9/11: Israel Did It;
• Presented a call-in programme on Press TV, a propaganda channel of the Iranian government which was banned by Ofcom and which regularly hosts Holocaust deniers;
• Been accused of donating money to self-proclaimed Holocaust denier Paul Eisen, whose Deir Yassin Remembered group has been shunned by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in the name of refusing to "turn a blind eye to antisemitism". Corbyn has addressed that claim via his spokesman, who said that "Jeremy Corbyn's office" had had no contact with Eisen and that Corbyn disassociated himself from his extreme views – a denial that seems neither forceful nor convincing.
And there is more: on 22 August Corbyn is scheduled to share a platform with Carlos Latuff, a cartoonist who regularly uses antisemitic imagery in his cartoons but denies being antisemitic. Middle East Monitor, the group organising the event, has been accused by the Community Security Trust of promoting conspiracy theories and myths about Jews.'
Over and over again Corbyn is seen to associate with antisemites, those who want to destroy Israel and kill all Jews, and yet his followers and the BBC turn a blind eye.
What will it take to revolt the BBC enough? What will it take to get his followers to forsake him? Short of seeing video of him singing "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" whilst burning an Israeli flag and pissing on a Sefer Torah I can't think of anything.*
*For the avoidance of doubt, I don't believe Jeremy Corbyn has ever pissed on a Sefer Torah. I doubt that he's ever set fire to an Israeli flag but it's highly possible that he's been at an event where Israeli flags were burned. As for singing "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" that seems eminently believable. Why should that matter you may ask. Because that means supporting, not a two state solution to the Israel/Palestinian issue but a single state, another Muslim state. However I believe that that position is common to many of his supporters and a fair number at the institutionally anti Israel BBC.
The whole original article is here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-foreign-policy-antisemitism
Meanwhile rumours circulate of the big Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism reveal coming tomorrow, we will see...
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