The Jewish Chronicle has some serious concerns about Jeremy Corbyn’s associates:
We are certain that we speak for the vast majority of British Jews in expressing deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr Corbyn’s election as Labour leader.
Because, although there is no direct evidence that he has an issue himself with Jews, there is overwhelming evidence of his association with, support for — and even in one case, alleged funding of — Holocaust deniers, terrorists and some outright antisemites.
If Mr Corbyn is not to be regarded from the day of his election as an enemy of Britain’s Jewish community, he has a number of questions which he must answer in full and immediately. The JC asked him earlier this week to respond. No response has been forthcoming.
The Jewish Chronicle goes on to say:
In a nation where, thank heavens, racism and extremism are now regarded as beyond the pale, it is little short of astonishing that a man who chooses to associate with racists and extremists is about to become leader of one of our two main parties and could conceivably become Prime Minister.
Strong stuff. You might think that such powerful sentiments as this ‘expressing deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr Corbyn’s election as Labour leader‘ would immediately find themselves being reported by the BBC. Certainly if this had been said by a Muslim organisation about a leader with close associations to the EDL you can pretty much guarantee the BBC would be giving it plenty of coverage and Nicky Campbell would be dusting off his tired old phrases about the wonders of Islam whist expressing shock that someone so obviously connected to an ‘Islamophobic’ organisation could have the opportunity not only to lead a political party but perhaps to be Prime Minister.
However the BBC has shown not the slightest interest, despite a Labour MP also raising the same concerns…
Jeremy Corbyn was accused of being an anti-Semite by one of Labour’s most senior politicians last night as a series of party grandees rounded on the hard-Left candidate.
Ivan Lewis, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, attacked Mr Corbyn’s “anti-Semitic rhetoric” and said the party must have “zero tolerance” for such views.
Mr Lewis said he was “saddened” that people on the Left of the party had failed to take a “no ifs, no buts” to anti-Semitism.
The Guardian reports it….Jewish Labour MP hits out at Jeremy Corbyn’s record on antisemitism, as do many other publications, even the FT and the Times of Israel.
Here is the BBC’s report on Corbyn and his critics….from 23:00 last night:
Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn ‘not bothered’ by rivals’ criticism
Not a single mention of the suggestions either that he is anti-Semitic or has a too close association with those who are despite the Jewish Chronicle’s claims being made two days ago and other Media reports coming out earlier today.
Why would the BBC not report such serious allegations? As said, if he had been accused of being ‘islamophobic’ he would have been headline news on the BBC….so why not when he is accused of being anti-Semitic?
Maybe the BBC is just making sure of its facts…..but we know that the BBC is usually so quick off the mark with anything relating to race, religion and immigration and that when it is slow to report something it is usually because it thinks the news will undermine one of its own social or political messages and therefore the story needs to be reworked to present a more suitable narrative that twists the story to make good bad and bad good such as when the Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond, said mass immigration would lead to social and economic instability the BBC at first refused to report his words in full and when they finally came to do so it was only because they had worked out their narrative…that Hammond was stirring up anti-immigrant hatred wth his ‘rhetoric’ and ‘tone’. They had absolutely no interest in investigating the issues he raised preferring instead to dismiss them out of hand with an allusion that Hammond had ‘something of the night’ about him thrown in for good measure.
I await with interest the line the BBC takes on the Corbyn anti-Semitism story…..will they ignore it, or seek to undermine it or perhaps even report it straight?