Corbyn on the Marr show.
Mr Corbyn said he had been ‘hurt’ that veteran Labour MP Margaret Hodge and former chief Rabbi Lord Sacks had branded him personally an anti-Semite.
I wonder why they did that?
Invited by Marr to look down the lens of the camera and personally apologise to the Jewish community for the anti-Semitism crisis, Mr Corbyn replied: ‘I’ll simply say this – I am an anti-racist and will die an anti-racist.
‘Anti-Semitism is a scourge in any society and I will oppose it all my life and I will continue to oppose it all my life.’
He insisted that under his leadership rules against anti-Semitism have been toughened up.
He added: ‘The party must be and is a safe and welcoming place for all communities.’
Yeah, but that wasn’t he question, was it? Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle…
In one particularly uncomfortable exchange, Marr said: ‘Jeremy Corbyn, are you an anti-Semite?’
Mr Corbyn replied: ‘No. Absolutely not. I have spent my whole life opposing racism in any form and I will die fighting racism in any form.’
But Marr said: ‘It is extraordinary I even had to ask that question.’
Well, quite, so why not take Marr’s invite and openly apologise for the shitty antisemitic party that he leads? It was a simple enough thing to do. He won’t though, will he? If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
It’s certainly telling that Corbyn’s endless prevarication on this subject for the better part of two years has not been matched by his actions. He sits there, on the fence, making generalistic noises (but nothing really firm or specific) but here we still are, nobody’s really been kicked out of the party or disciplined and, the Jewish community openly despise him.
Corbyn is playing a dangerous game. He won’t criticise the anti-semites who infest Momentum because he needs them to keep on quietly purging the PLP of anyone who would oppose him. They are a mob; he can’t control them, only appease them.
Comment I made over at TW
Marr is weak, he should have pushed; anti-racist does not equal anti-Semite
Is Corbyn anti-Semite? imho Yes. Is he anti-Christian? imho Yes
That was some seriously weird shit he came out with on that thread. Bollocks on stilts.
I’d also add that contrary to popular opinion at Tim’s, Steve is not the wag he would like to make himself out to be. If anything, he revels in parading his ignorance as it plays to the crowd nicely. He’s still an ill-informed dickhead, though. Oh, and not remotely amusing even though he likes to think he is.
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