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Rebutting Tory attack lines: Anti-semitism and Labour
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“JEREMY CORBYN’S anti‑semite army,” read the Times headline in April. “Labour is riddled with anti-semites,” announced the Sun last year. A Corbyn-led Labour government would pose an “existential threat to Jewish life in this country,” argued the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Telegraph in a joint editorial.
With the press having waged an intense campaign against Corbyn and the Labour Party since 2015 over anti-semitism, it was only natural their political opponents were going to use it as a stick to beat the Labour leader with during the general election campaign.
First up was cabinet minister Michael Gove, who earlier this month started trolling leftist figures on Twitter, including Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar, asking them to denounce anti-semitic tweets sent by a Labour Party and Momentum member (the person was neither a member of the Labour Party nor Momentum).
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