Jewish newspapers claim Corbyn poses 'existential threat'
'A government led by Jeremy Corbyn would pose an existential threat to Jewish life in the UK, a joint editorial published by the country’s three most prominent Jewish newspapers has claimed.
The Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Telegraph each produced similar front pages for their Thursday editions attacking the Labour party’s decision not to fully absorb an internationally accepted definition of antisemitism into its code of conduct, as well as its wider record on the issue since Corbyn ascended to the party leadership in 2015.
In their joint editorial, they said the party was, until recently, the “natural home” for the Jewish community. But Labour has “seen its values and integrity eroded by Corbynite contempt for Jews and Israel” and now faced being seen as “institutionally racist”.
The papers said: “The stain and shame of antisemitism has coursed through Her Majesty’s Opposition since Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015.” They produced the joint editorial “because of the existential threat to Jewish life in this country that would be posed by a Jeremy Corbyn-led government”.
The editorial added: “With the government in Brexit disarray, there is a clear and present danger that a man with a default blindness to the Jewish community’s fears, a man who has a problem seeing that hateful rhetoric aimed at Israel can easily step into antisemitism, could be our next prime minister.”'
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