The Contract on Corbyn
Published
by
Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Gideon Levy pulls no punches in his defence of Jeremy Corbyn against the “Jewish establishment in Britain and the Israeli propaganda machine [which] have taken out a contract on the leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.
“The new and efficient strategy of Israel and the Zionist establishment brands every seeker of justice as an anti-Semite, and any criticism of Israel as hatred of Jews. Corbyn is a victim of this strategy, which threatens to paralyze and silence Europe with regard to Israel.”
No doubt Levy will be dismissed as another denialist, another self-hating Jew…
The Contract on Corbyn
Corbyn is not an anti-Semite. His real sin is to fight against injustice in the world, including the version Israel perpetrates
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Having just returned from Palestine and witnessed the ongoing, shameful degradation inflicted on the Palestinian people by a brutal, colonialist Israeli government, I read Gideon Levy’s galvanising counter response as a welcome call to action. Hard-hitting clarity and challenge versus an appalling political vendetta now reaching its apotheosis.
I agree generally with this article’s approach – that Corbyn is a threat to the establishment, and particularly for his past support for the Palestinians, and they will stop at nothing to get rid of him – and the extra information about Mirvis is useful, but I think some other aspects should not go unchallenged. Gideon Levy seems to think that all British Jews are religious and orthodox (“Mirvis is the voice of British Jewry”) and that they have the same views about the current campaign against Corbyn (“British Jews… are magnifying the danger”). Clearly, many British Jews are not orthodox or duped by the Zionist campaign. (Such campaigns are not new either, although this one is more far-reaching and intense).
One thing Levy says is this: “There is anti-Semitism, it must be fought, but it must also be recognized that Israel supplies it an abundance of excuses and motives.” I think that you might get hauled up before the beak if you expressed such a view at a Labour party meeting. (There are some Jews who are uncomfortable in the LP: many of the anti-zionist Jews). But that does not mean it is necessarily incorrect.
I agree Mr.Levy,good work,please keep highlighting the truth.
Not one of Gideon Levy’s best pieces. He accepts the false claim that Mirvis is “THE voice of British Jewry”. He makes false generalisations about British Jews, as though all are rabid Zionists and there are no Jewish supporters of Corbyn. This is stereotyping. I find his remark “let them flee” especially repugnant.
Brilliance in writing in defence of Jeremy Corbyn