Jonathan Arkush, the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, expected Corbyn to take the internal anti-Semitism problems as a personal policy and lead his party on this important issue, but he didn’t step up to do it.

Corbyn has a block when it comes to Israel. During the meeting, Jonathan Arkush asked Jeremy Corbyn why is it that he has nothing good to say about Israel’s flourishing and rare democracy in the Middle East, its trades unions, the lack of discrimination against women, gays, and minorities. The only response he received was a stare.

Arkush told Corbyn about his son, a doctor at the Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, who works alongside Palestinian doctors and nurses treating patients of all faiths and cultures. His comment was met by disinterest.

Although the representatives of British Jews met the press after their meeting, a detached Corbyn did not appear to speak to the press. Instead, he got one of his spokespeople to make a statement.

So what is it that causes the Corbyn disconnect to the complaint of anti-Semitism? According to David Aaronovitch, a reformed Euro-Communist, knows a thing or two having made the documentary “No Excuses for Terror” on how the far-left and the far-right have permeated the mainstream media and political discourse, and “Blaming the Jews," that evaluates anti-Semitism in Arab media and culture. He writes that Corbyn thinks "good Jews” are those who comply with the ideology of this aging revolutionary. And the base for that is a totalitarian rejection of Zionism and Israel. As Aaronovitch wrote in an April 20^th article in London’s Jewish Chronicle, that Corbyn's Jews are the ones who reject both Israel and the notion that there is anti-Semitism within the British Labour Party.

He quotes Leah Levane, a member of Jewish Voices for Labour, who complains whenever British Jews talk about the invidious creep of anti-Semitism within her party. In a convoluted rant, covered in Aaronovitch’s article, Levane babbled, “it was terrible that you can treat antisemitism and make that accusation every time you criticize behavior of the state of Israel towards the Palestinian people.”

Make sense of that, if you can. However, it was praised by Jackie Walker, a far-left Socialist activist, who tweeted, “Great contribution from Le h Levene – Jewish human rights activist and my comrade. Our voice at last being heard.”

Jews for Corbyn: The rot of antisemitism within Britain's Labour party

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