Among Charedim, Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat is not being celebrated at all
JVL Introduction
Divisions within the Jewish communities in Britain, religious and secular, are large, as we have often pointed out.
In this short article – published by the Jewish Chronicle and reproduced here with the permission of the author – Shraga Stern rejects Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl’s assertion that Jeremy Corbyn allowed “anti-Jewish racism … to run amok” in the Labour party.
She does not speak for Charedi Jews, he says, the most rapidly growing group within Anglo-Jewry. As far as they are concerned, Jeremy Corbyn has a distinguished and documented record of support for their concerns.
This article was originally published by Jewish Chronicle on Thu 19 Dec 2019. Read the original here.
Among Charedim, Jeremy Corbyn's defeat is not being celebrated at all
The outgoing Labour leader has a distinguished record of support for our concerns, writes Shraga Stern
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I do not support faith schools and there have been more than a few concerns about the Jewish schools in Hackney. I would hope that Labour’s plans to replace Ofsted would put more pressure on these schools to be accountable and deliver secular education.
I want to thank Shraga Stern for standing up for Jeremy as Jeremy has always stood up for the Jewish communities. Let’s at least acknowledge and thank lthe Jewish people who have seen through the campaign to drive out all those who have spoken up for Palestinians from the LP and who have leant their support for the racist Johnson government instead. Knowing what we know about the vile politics of such people it is shameful that they should have been supported rather than the life long anti racist, Jeremy Corbyn. Ms Van Der Zyl , on the contrary, history will judge what you have shamefully done to deny the desparately poor as in Tower Hamlets, a far better future. Yes, there is no place for those very few who might express hostility to Jews as Jews in the LP. But we will continue to speak up for Palestinians too.
Shagra Stern quotes Marie van der Zyl as saying in her recent Jewish Chronicle article that:
“….history will not look kindly on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, where anti-Jewish racism has been allowed to run amok.”
Not if history exposes the vilification and demonisation and character assassination of Jeremy Corbyn – and the left – for what it was – ie a black op smear campaign. And I will certainly be doing all I can to expose the lies and falsehood and the perpetraitors!