The leadership of Britain's Labour party convened Tuesday to do something that should have been obvious: approve the international definition of anti-Semitism, formulated by experts and adopted by dozens of Western governments (including the British government), the European Parliament and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has a membership of around 60 countries. The issue of excluding a certain type of criticism toward Israel as part of the definition sparked condemnation from Muslim and pro-Palestinian circles, and is also behind Labour's stubborn refusal, under party leader Jeremy Corbyn, to accept the definition in full.
There is nothing in the definition that prohibits topical, practical criticism of Israeli government policies. With that, denying the existence of the Jewish state and labeling it a racist enterprise, comparing it to Nazi Germany, applying special standards to criticize Israel and accusing Jews of loyalty to Israel rather than their home countries, are defined as anti-Semitism. Based on these four clauses, Corbyn and more than a few of his fellow party members can be labeled, in retrospect, anti-Semites because of things they've said in the past. Corbyn and his people are worried that adopting the full definition will prevent them from continuing to level anti-Semitic criticism at Israel.
Corbyn is more than your average politician. He is a full-fledged ideological project aimed at control over the radical left in Britain and the country itself. Corbyn wants to be Hugo Chávez more than he wants to be Barack Obama, which is why identifying with the Palestinians against Israel is so important to him. For a long time, he was considered a fringe character, a caricature, a clown from Labour's back benches. His main enemies hail from Labour's "right-wing" camp, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown loyalists whom Corbyn views as "Zionists."
Now, after ascending to the summit of the party, he and his people are waging a cleansing campaign. This isn't a simple makeover, it's a complete sex change operation, after which Labour will be very different. The first victims of his "targeted assassinations" are supporters of Israel.
In just three years, Corbyn has transformed Labour into a political force of nature on the Western Left and in all of Europe. He turned a failing opposition party into the largest in Europe, with some 600,000 members. If elections were to be held in the coming months in Britain, due to the failure of Brexit talks, Corbyn would have a significant chance of winning despite the claims of anti-Semitism within the party. His considerable flock of supporters treats him like a Messiah, in the religious sense of the word. He is bringing tidings to a society desperate for fundamental change and "salvation," spiraling out of control in the Brexit vortex with no idea how to get out.
But instead of leading the British people to his socialist Garden of Eden, he must divert attention to a minor issue like anti-Semitism. And only Israel is to blame. Because of Israel, the Jews are forcing him to accept this definition of anti-Semitism; because of Israel, the Jews are waging a "witch hunt" against him, which serves the Conservative government. Corbyn is the victim – of the Jews. Any future failure will be attributed to the Jews. Any success will be built on their backs.
