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Jeremy Corbyn’s Ironically Ahistorical Anti-Semitism

He accuses “Zionists” of lacking the very things that sustained Jews through the trials of their collective experience.
Source: Henry Nicholls / Reuters

The past two years have brought a seemingly unending stream of made by the British Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, about Jews, Zionists, and Israel. But in recent days has come the lowest blow, with the emergence of a video from 2013. Corbyn, in speaking of people who approached the Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the United Kingdom to challenge points he had made in a talk, that such Zionists “clearly have two problems. One is that they don’t want to study history, and secondly, having

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