Bad Political Leadership

For John, BLUF:  This is about British politicianJeremy Corbyn, but also about how anti-semitism is popular on the left.  Our political leaders on the Progressive side have forgotten the liberal attribues of free speech and tolerance.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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How many Palestinians should die for Israel’s self-defense, asks UK’s Jeremy Corbyn

Here is the sub-headline:

The speech Corbyn read at the pro-Palestine demonstration mourned those murdered in the Negev desert, but did not mention the party responsible for the brutal attack.

From Jerusalem Post, by Danielle Greyman Kennard, 16 October 2023, 01:51.

Here is the lede plus one:

Former leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has become increasingly vocal about Israel’s actions against the Hamas terrorist organization, and the casualties stemming from those actions.

Corbyn, who has refused to condemn Hamas, wrote on X on October 12 that “We should condemn the of all civilian life, no matter who does it. Why can't our politicians uphold this basic moral principle, and defend international law universally and equally? How many innocent Palestinian lives should be erased in the name of self-defence?”

My wife and I were just discussing the amount of anti-semitism that has been on display for the last week.  The idea that The Jews are responsible for everything is both old and wrong.  In the case of the Hamas attack that killed hundreds of civilian men, women and children, the cries of the deranged (or undereducated) notwithstanding, it is not Israel's fault.  Ffurther, their cries of "the river to the sea" has a strong whiff of genocide in it.

In Gaza we have a population that has no concept of a lemon aide stand.  Yes, they have been given lemons.  Why have they not been making lemon aide?  Because after making war on the new State of Israel in 1948 they decamped and now want their old property back.  They are still living in 1948, when they tried to smother the new Israel in the crib and failed.  What they could not achieve by more conventional armed conflict they are now trying to achieve by guerrilla warfare, using terror.

Professor Glenn Reynolds concludes:  "The distinction between Corby and Oswald Mosleyd is pretty much gone.  If it ever existed."♠ 

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Mr Mosely was a notorious Fascist in England in the 1920s and 1930s.  He passed on in 1980.