Jeremy Corbyn, the former head of the Labour Party in Great Britain who has a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/document-lists-9-instances-of-anti-semitism-by-corbyn-among-thousands-in-labour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history of anti-Israel rhetoric</a>, refused to answer when host Piers Morgan repeatedly asked him if Hamas is a terrorist  group.
Corbyn, who almost became the prime minister of Great Britain in 2017, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLKpY3NdeA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Hamas and Hezbollah “friends” in 2009.  “It will be my pleasure and honor to host an event in parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;I’ve also invited our friends from Hamas to come and speak as well.”
On October 23, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/sunak-corbyn-hamas-israel-palestine-b2434559.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of Corbyn, “I’m surprised he hasn’t made any reference to the fact an organization he once described as a &#8216;friend&#8217; has perpetuated an absolutely appalling act of terrorism.”
In 2009, Corbyn <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/03/revealed-jeremy-corbyn-called-hamas-removed-banned-terror-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> Hamas should be removed from a list of terror groups, telling Al Jazeera on April 16, 2009, “At some point, Hamas should be removed from this list because contacts with Hamas by politicians are increasing day after day.”
Morgan persisted in trying to get Corbyn to acknowledge that Hamas is a terror group. The exchange started like this:
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Morgan: Are they a terror group?
Corbyn: Everybody knows what they are.
Morgan: Are they a terror group? Can you say it?
Corbyn: Piers, can we have a discussion?  
Morgan: Can you say it?
Corbyn: Can we have a discussion?
Morgan: Can you call them a terror group?
Corbyn: Piers, can we have a discussion?
Morgan: Can you call them a terror group?
Corbyn: Is it possible to have a rational discussion with you?
Morgan: Are you prepared to call Hamas a terror group? 
Corbyn: Is it possible to have a rational discussion with you?
Morgan: You can’t, can you.  
Corbyn: Is it possible? Come on, answer that question.
Morgan: You can’t, can’t you.
Corbyn: You answer is?
Morgan: No. It’s my show. You answer my question. Are Hamas a terror group?
Corbyn: Listen, can I —
Morgan: Are they a terror group?
Corbyn: Piers, can I —
Morgan: Answer the question.
Corbyn: Can I speak?
Morgan: Are they a terror group?
Corbyn: Piers —
Morgan: No.
Corbyn: If you let me speak —
Morgan: Are they a terror group?
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Morgan asked, “Are they a terror group?&#8221; three more times, and when Corbyn refused to answer, Morgan fired, “Why can’t you say it? Just answer my question: Are Hamas a terror group?”
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After again repeatedly asking Corbyn if Hamas is a terror group, Morgan said, “I’ve asked you two questions: Should Hamas stay in power and are they a terror group. You’re refusing to answer either of them. That is very telling. And you wonder why people think you have a problem with Jewish people.”
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Wow 🤯 17 times <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@piersmorgan</a> asks <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeremycorbyn</a>: “Are Hamas a terror group?”, and Corbyn refuses to answer, all 17 times! <a href="https://t.co/u4gcN2f6wh">pic.twitter.com/u4gcN2f6wh</a>
&mdash; Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1724185959128772972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Piers Morgan

The long battle against the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is approaching its culmination, with a Westminster Magistrates Court sending the case request to the U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel after his extradition was approved.
Patel will now determine whether the United States’ long-standing request to extradite Assange meets various legal requirements, including the promise that he will not face execution. If his extradition is fully approved, Assange will likely appeal to the British High Court.
Assange&#8217;s attorney, Mark Summers QC, informed Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring that &#8220;serious submissions&#8221; on U.S. sentencing law would be sent to Patel, and that the Home Secretary has “no option but to send this case to the Secretary of State.”
“It is not for me to raise fresh evidence [at this stage] even though there have been serious developments in this case,” he added.
&#8220;I am duty-bound to send your case to the Secretary of State for a decision on whether you will be extradited,&#8221; the judge told Assange, who spoke briefly via video link from Belmarsh Prison during the hearing. &#8220;You have the right to appeal to the High Court and if you exercise your right to appeal it will not be heard until [Patel] has made her decision.&#8221;
“He has done no more than tell the world about military planning, military policies and the horrors of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and I think he deserves to be thanked,” controversial British politician, Jeremy Corbyn, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/20/uk-court-approves-extradition-of-julian-assange-to-us">told</a> reporters outside the Westminster magistrates court.
Assange has been incarcerated in the United Kingdom since being removed from Ecuador’s embassy in London in 2019. That same year, the U.S. Department of Justice filed multiple charges against Assange related to an alleged violation of the Espionage Act following the release of classified documents by Wikileaks.
The U.S.-based charges were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-can-be-extradited-to-the-u-s-british-court-rules">summarized</a> as follows:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">His complicity in illegal acts to obtain or receive voluminous databases of classified information;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">His agreement and attempt to obtain classified information through computer hacking; and </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">His publishing certain classified documents that contained the unredacted names of innocent people who risked their safety and freedom to provide information to the United States and its allies, including local Afghans and Iraqis, journalists, religious leaders, human rights advocates, and political dissidents from repressive regimes.” </li>
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It was first ruled in December 2021 that Assange could be extradited to the United States.
Meanwhile, numerous British politicians have called for President Joe Biden to drop the charges facing Assange. In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/julian-assange-and-a-clarion-call-for-freedom-u-k-politicians-call-on-biden-to-drop-charges-against-wikileaks-founder">letter</a> last summer, 24 Members of Parliament wrote, “We appeal to you to drop this prosecution, an act that would be a clarion call for freedom that would echo around the globe.”
Ian Haworth is a writer for The Daily Wire and contributor to Morning Wire. Follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ighaworth">Facebook</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/IanGHaworth">YouTube</a>.

Assange Case

British Court Approves Julian Assange Extradition To U.S., Wikileaks Founder Awaiting Final Decision

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WikiLeaks

Piers Corbyn, the older brother of former far-left Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, was arrested on Saturday during an anti-lockdown protest in London for allegedly “<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/coronavirus-protests-hyde-park-london-jeremy-corbyn-piers-brother-lockdown-a9518341.html">refusing to leave</a>” or give identifying information to police officers.
Around the time he was arrested, Corbyn was addressing a crowd of protesters with a bullhorn and decrying the coronavirus pandemic as a “pack of lies to brainwash you and keep you in order,” according to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/coronavirus-protests-hyde-park-london-jeremy-corbyn-piers-brother-lockdown-a9518341.html">the Independent</a>.
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Piers Corbyn, brother of ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, also led away in handcuffs after saying 5G and coronavirus pandemic linked, calling it a ‘pack of lies to brainwash you and keep you in order’ <a href="https://t.co/8NKgnxYakQ">pic.twitter.com/8NKgnxYakQ</a>
— Thomas Hornall (@Thomashornall) <a href="https://twitter.com/Thomashornall/status/1261635330760982529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Independent notes that Corbyn “is believed to have been arrested under the Health Protection Regulations, which make gathering in a group of more than two people illegal.”
At another point during the protest, Corbyn reportedly floated a baseless conspiracy theory connecting 5G networks and the coronavirus pandemic. The news agency reports that there were about 50 protesters in attendance, and some were holding signs such as “anti-vax deserves a voice.”
According to <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/jeremy-corbyn-piers-corbyn-arrested-speakers-corner-in-hyde-park-west-london-164725605.html">Yahoo News</a>, a flyer advertising the event called for “no to mandatory vaccines, no to the new normal, and no to the unlawful lockdown.” At least one protestor, however, said she was there to highlight the economic impact of the coronavirus lockdown.
“Developing countries will have no trade, no tourism. I have had to close my shop on Columbia Road flower market,” said Catharine Harvey, the owner of a flower shop, reports the news agency. “The effects of the lockdown are far, far worse than the virus – mental health, domestic violence, shops are closed, theatres, cinemas, restaurants. It’s unnecessary.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently recovered from coronavirus and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uk-pm-boris-johnson-thanks-hospitals-for-saving-his-life-in-easter-video-it-could-have-gone-either-way">credits doctors</a> with saving his life, called on the public earlier this week to return to work if they cannot work from home, reports <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/uk/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-gbr-intl/index.html">CNN</a>.
&#8220;We now need to stress that anyone who can&#8217;t work from home, for instance those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work,&#8221; said Johnson.
<a href="https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-piers-corbyn-jeremy-corbyns-brother-lockdown-protestor">Tatler Magazine</a> reports that Piers Corbyn has become something of a staple at anti-lockdown protests in the United Kingdom, and that he has claimed no one has died from the coronavirus itself &#8220;because it’s curable.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/4ac3679b6f39e8bd2561c1c8eeafd855">The Associated Press</a>, the conspiracy theories connecting 5G towers and coronavirus in Europe, such as those reportedly promoted by Piers Corbyn, have influenced a growing number of cellphone tower burnings over the last two months, so much so that the director of the National Health Service in England has spoken out against them.
“I’m absolutely outraged, absolutely disgusted, that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency,” Stephen Powis, medical director of the NHS, said at the beginning of April.
The news agency reports that over the course of April, at least 50 cell phone towers were targeted by arsonists in England, with additional towers targeted in neighboring countries.
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Countrywide Protest Are Held Against Coronavirus Lockdown

Jeremy Corbyn’s Older Brother Arrested At Anti-Lockdown Protest In London

COVID

It&#8217;s safe to say that James Carville is not a fan of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The &#8220;Ragin&#8217; Cajun,&#8221; a longtime political strategist and former top adviser to President Bill Clinton, has been making the rounds blasting the socialist from Vermont — who polls currently show may blow away the field in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
Carville said Monday that if Democrats give Sanders the 2020 presidential nomination, it will be the &#8220;end of days&#8221; for the party. And he said Sanders does not have the broad appeal necessary to win the general election in November, likening him to Jeremy Corbyn, the far-left leader of Britain&#8217;s Labour Party who was crushed in a recent high-profile British election.
“The only thing, the only thing between the United States and the abyss is the Democratic Party. That’s it. If we go the way of the British Labour Party, if we nominate Jeremy Corbyn, it’s going to be the end of days. &#8230; So I am scared to death, I really am,&#8221; Carville said on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221;
“If we lose that, we’re going to be the British Labour Party and be out in some theoretical left-wing la-la land,” Carville said.
Carville said Sanders does not appeal to black voters, whom he said are not interested in socialism, a revolution, or &#8220;all this foolishness you hear.&#8221;
And the strategist who pushed Clinton to repeat the mantra, &#8220;it&#8217;s the economy, stupid,&#8221; said Sanders&#8217; appeal to the far-left of the Democratic Party is downright cultish.
&#8220;There’s a certain part of the Democratic Party that wants us to be a cult. I’m not interested in being in a cult. I’m 75 years old. I’m just not a very cult-y person,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Some people in this country want a revolution, they want disruption. I don&#8217;t know — they scream at people, they go and bully people. I don&#8217;t know how you win an election like that, 78 years old standing up screaming at a microphone about revolution. But you gotta&#8217; give people an alternative,&#8221; Carville said.
It&#8217;s not the first time Carville has railed about Sanders. Last week, he said, “it matters who the candidate is, it matters what a party chooses to talk about!”
“I’m 75 years old. Why am I here doing this? Because I am scared to death, that’s why! Let’s get relevant here, people, for sure. All the Sanders people are taking pictures wishing Jeremy Corbyn the best. I don’t want to go down that path!”
And in a recent interview with Vox, Carville said he was “scared to death” of the upcoming election.
“Look, the turnout in the Iowa caucus was below what we expected, what we wanted. Trump’s approval rating is probably as high as it’s been. This is very bad. And now it appears the party can’t even count votes. What the hell am I supposed to think?” he said.
“I’ll just say it this way: The fate of the world depends on the Democrats getting their s**t together and winning in November,” Carville said. “We have to beat Trump. And so far, I don’t like what I see. And a lot of people I talk to feel the same way.”

Politicon 2019 – Day 1

‘END OF DAYS’: Carville Warns Dems About Choosing Sanders — ‘I’m Not Interested In Being In A Cult!’

2020 Election

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Bill Clinton

Communism

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Democratic Socialism

Leftism

Morning Joe

Socialism

This week, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces during World War II. Politicians of all stripes dutifully tweeted, &#8220;#NeverAgain.&#8221; Meanwhile, many of those same politicians continued to forward the worst sort of anti-Semitism, blithely ignoring the fact that anti-Semitism isn&#8217;t a relic of the past but a thriving part of the present.
Take, for example, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Omar has, in the past two years alone, sponsored an anti-Semitic resolution that likened boycotts of Israel to boycotts of Nazi Germany; rejected a Democratic-sponsored resolution backing a two-state solution in order to chide the Trump administration and Israel, because the solution wasn&#8217;t radical enough; and repeatedly suggested that Jewish money manipulates American foreign policy on Israel. Her anti-Semitism was so palpable that the Democrats were forced to debate and then water down a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. Still, Omar tweeted, &#8220;Today and every day, we must redouble our efforts to confront anti-Semitism and all forms of religious discrimination and say #NeverAgain.&#8221;
Or how about Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)? She tweeted a story about a Holocaust survivor visiting Auschwitz and added, &#8220;May we honor them by sharing stories like these, #NeverAgain allowing hate to flourish, and committing to speaking out against anti-Semitism and all other forms of hate.&#8221; Just two days before that tweet, Tlaib put out a now-deleted retweet of anti-Semitic blood libel that accused &#8220;a Herd of violent #Israeli settlers&#8221; of kidnapping a 7-year-old boy and drowning him in a well. In reality, the boy was 8 years old and apparently had drowned after slipping into a pool of rainwater in the Beit Hanina neighborhood. Tlaib, of course, is no stranger to Jew hatred: In the past two years, she has accused congressional lawmakers opposed to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement of dual loyalty and hobnobbed with open terror supporters, and she is the bedrock congressional supporter of BDS itself. Both Tlaib and Omar have provided moral support for Hamas, the terror group in charge of the Gaza Strip.
Then there&#8217;s Jeremy Corbyn, the British Labour Party leader who so disgraced his own party with his coddling of anti-Semites that he was rejected by many members of his upper echelon. Corbyn glibly tweeted, &#8220;This is a time for us all to reflect on the horrors of the past, the evils of Nazism, genocide and antisemitism, and indeed all forms of racism, which we must always be determined to root out, wherever they appear.&#8221;
The truth is that #NeverAgain has become a virtue signal for many on the modern left, who are more than willing to greenlight the genocidal anti-Semitism of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Authority and the Iranian regime, among others. Islamic anti-Semitism, in their view, is not true anti-Semitism; it&#8217;s just religious conflict, or territorial disagreement, or anti-Zionism. When such ideological disagreements result in open calls for the murder of Jews &#8230; well, that&#8217;s going a bit too far, but it&#8217;s understandable. After all, modern Jews — particularly Zionists, who insist on a Jewish state to ensure the survival of their people — are rather bothersome in real life, unlike those dead Jews from World War II, who aren&#8217;t any more real than their old black-and-white photos, and whose survival is no longer at issue.
It&#8217;s easy for radical leftists and their Islamic allies to spout #NeverAgain while proclaiming that today&#8217;s Jews aren&#8217;t like yesterday&#8217;s Jews. All of which is why Israel&#8217;s continued existence provides both a thorn in the side of modern anti-Semites and why Israel&#8217;s continued existence is so necessary. Vague expressions of upset over an event that took place 75 years ago are no substitute for the hard-nosed defense of Jewish survival that Israel represents. And Jews should remember that when they decide to blind themselves to the real and present anti-Semitism of the Omars, Tlaibs and Corbyns.
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Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib

SHAPIRO: When ‘Never Again’ Means Nothing

Holocaust

Ilhan Omar

Rashida Tlaib

Last night, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">Jewish politics</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43388/hammer-anti-semites-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-josh-hammer">anti-Semitism</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">Israel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4bc1c-UMI">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the mainstream media&#8217;s overwhelming silence with respect to the fact that 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is Jewish by birth, has frequently associated himself with notorious anti-Semites and people embroiled in anti-Semitic controversies.
Sanders retains Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Linda Sarsour as leading presidential campaign surrogates, and recently reiterated his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/02/i-dont-think-he-needs-my-advice-bernie-sanders-applauds-jeremy-corbyn">longtime support</a> for deeply anti-Semitic outgoing British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanders-appearing-with-omar-lauds-her-one-of-the-bravest-members-of-the-united-states-congress">reported</a> on Sunday, Sanders recently took the campaign stage with Omar — who has been consistently embroiled in anti-Semitic controversies ever since joining Congress in January — to effusively praise her as &#8220;a leader on so many important issues&#8221; and &#8220;one of the bravest members of the United States Congress.&#8221; And as Hammer discussed with Wheeler on a previous television segment from September, Sanders has long <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-hammer-tipping-point-liz-wheeler-bernie-daily-wire-2">already deployed</a> the anti-Semitic Sarsour as a prominent presidential campaign surrogate.
Wheeler began by lamenting the fact that the mainstream media are so silent about Sanders&#8217; numerous troubling affiliations and endorsements, including his recent endorsement and prompt subsequent un-endorsement of <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-endorses-candidate-ousted-from-far-left-pac-for-offensive-writings/">deeply troubled</a> California congressional candidate Cenk Uygur.
Wheeler decried the media for ignoring the &#8220;rabid anti-Semitism&#8221; of those with whom Sanders oftentimes &#8220;pals around.&#8221; Hammer tore into Sanders, as he has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">done</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1194316667880427522">before</a>:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s just so shameful. Bernie Sanders, obviously, is Jewish by birth; if I&#8217;m not mistaken, he had a large portion his family that was wiped out by the Nazis in the Holocaust. I mean, this is a man who truly, truly, truly, ought to know better.
But the reality is that the vast majority of American Jews in this country, as my boss Ben Shapiro has pointed out for years, simply don&#8217;t care a whole lot about Judaism. It&#8217;s very sad. Bernie Sanders fits very, very neatly into the Reform/Conservative, non-Orthodox Jewish consensus in America.
There was actually a poll I saw a few years ago that said that while 80% of evangelical Protestants believe that God promised the Land of Israel to the Jews, only 40% of American Jews believe that. And that is just one data point. American Jews, by and large, are secular. Their religion is progressive leftism. Bernie Sanders obviously takes it to the ultimate extreme: He is a USSR-honeymooning, hammer and sickle flag-waving, repulsive, Marxist communist. He and Jeremy Corbyn, despite the fact that they are [of] ostensibly different religions, actually have a lot more that they are similar on than they are different on.</blockquote>
Wheeler continued to expand upon the unique vileness of Corbyn, who has previously laid a wreath at a burial spot of Palestinian-Arabs who murdered Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and referred to jihadist groups Hezbollah and Hamas as his &#8220;friends.&#8221; And Uygur, who Sanders endorsed before promptly un-endorsing, has recently been in the news for an unearthed old statement wherein he expressed support for <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/cenk_uygur_antisemitism_bulldoze_jerusalem">&#8220;bulldoz[ing]&#8221; the holy city of Jerusalem</a>.
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WATCH: Hammer On ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: The Media Hide Left-Wing Bigotry

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Far-left British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn channeled his inner Stacey Abrams on Saturday after his blowout loss in the U.K. general election, declaring he &#8220;won the argument&#8221; in the election despite suffering the worst political loss in the U.K. since 1935.
In an op-ed published in The Guardian, a left-wing British publication, Corbyn blamed everything from &#8220;the financial crash of 2008&#8221; and billionaires to Brexit.
&#8220;I am proud that on austerity, on corporate power, on inequality and on the climate emergency we have won the arguments and rewritten the terms of political debate,&#8221; Corbyn <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/14/we-won-the-argument-but-i-regret-we-didnt-convert-that-into-a-majority-for-change">declared</a>. &#8220;But I regret that we did not succeed in converting that into a parliamentary majority for change.&#8221;
Labour sources <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-exit-polls-from-u-k-general-election-suggest-blowout">told</a> Sky News: &#8220;Any attempt to blame this on Brexit is folly. The one thing that came up time and time again from voters – Corbyn. Whether that was his support of the IRA, his antisemitism or limited grasp of economics. He was the problem.&#8221;
It&#8217;s hard to argue that Corbyn won anything given the massive defeat that the U.K. handed him late this week.
&#8220;The scale of Labour’s defeat predicted by the shock exit poll would leave the party with the fewest number of seats since the 1935 election,&#8221; The Telegraph reported. &#8220;It would also be the first time since the inter-war years that Labour has won fewer than 200 seats.&#8221;
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/13/world/europe/uk-general-election-results.html">described</a> the election as a &#8220;landslide victory&#8221; for the Conservative Party and acknowledged that it was the worst defeat for Labour in over 80 years.
Corbyn continued, &#8220;Progress does not come in a simple straight line. Even though we lost seats heavily on Thursday, I believe the manifesto of 2019 and the movement behind it will be seen as historically important – a real attempt at building a force powerful enough to transform society for the many, not the few. For the first time in decades, many people have had hope for a better future. &#8230; There is no doubt that our policies are popular, from public ownership of rail and key utilities to a massive house-building programme and a pay rise for millions. The question is, how can we succeed in future where we didn’t this time?&#8221;
&#8220;The media attacks on the Labour party for the last four and a half years were more ferocious than ever – and of course that has an impact on the outcome of elections. Anyone who stands up for real change will be met by the full force of media opposition,&#8221; Corbyn continued. &#8220;The party needs a more robust strategy to meet this billionaire-owned and influenced hostility head-on and, where possible, turn it to our advantage.&#8221;
Corbyn&#8217;s remarks are eerily similar to rhetoric used by failed far-left Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stace Abrams, who lost Georgia&#8217;s governor race in 2018 by nearly 55,000 voters.
Abrams, despite her loss and lack of evidence that anything in the election was unfair, has <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/stacey-abrams-proclaims-we-won-georgia-governor-race-identity-politics-is-exactly-who-we-are">falsely</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/28/magazine/stacey-abrams-election-georgia.html">claimed</a> on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-georgia-democrat-stacey-abrams-claims-she-ryan-saavedra">numerous</a> occasions that she won the election.
In an interview that was posted to Corbyn&#8217;s Twitter account, the far-left leader, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-british-labour-party-leader-jeremy-corbyn-stepping-down-after-devastating-loss">announced</a> this week that he is stepping down from the party, said, &#8220;Obviously very sad at the result we&#8217;ve achieved and very sad at those colleagues that lost their seats in the election and very sad for many people in this country who will now have a government that is continuing policies of austerity and many of the poorest communities I think will suffer very badly from the economic strategy that I suspect the Prime Minister will take forward. But also, I have pride in our manifesto that we put forward and all the policies we put forward which actually had huge public support on issues of Universal Credit, the Green Industrial Revolution, and investment for the future. But this election was taken over ultimately by Brexit and we as a party represent people who both voted remain and leave and my whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try to bring people together, because ultimately the country has to come together.&#8221;
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Our aim was to bring people together and offer hope. <a href="https://t.co/OLTC2ifPxB">pic.twitter.com/OLTC2ifPxB</a>
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Jeremy Corbyn Goes Full Stacey Abrams, Declare Victory After Blowout Loss: ‘We Won The Argument’

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) meddled in a foreign election on Thursday when she shared a video promoting far-left British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and encouraged people to turn out and vote in the election.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: &#8220;This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States. The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives. The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!&#8221;
The video attacks wealthy people in the U.K., Conservatives, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, stating at the end: &#8220;The Conservatives have been in power for 10 years. We can&#8217;t survive another 5. On your side. For the many not the few. Vote Labour 12 December.&#8221;
Washington Examiner Magazine Executive Editor Seth Mandel tweeted out a screenshot of Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s tweet that featured the video from Corbyn&#8217;s official Twitter account:
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HOLY S**T AOC OFFICIALLY ENDORSES JEREMY CORBYN <a href="https://t.co/0F1VZYyIlv">pic.twitter.com/0F1VZYyIlv</a>
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&#8220;AOC endorsing Corbyn is a major moment, and for all those who cover anything remotely in the orbit of any of this: You will be judged on how you cover it. Just letting you know. This will be a big part of your grade for the semester,&#8221; Mandel added. &#8220;AOC: For the Many, Not the Jew.&#8221;
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National Review published a brief <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-not-a-man-of-the-people/">overview</a> of a few of the examples of anti-Semitism that have been made against Corbyn:
<blockquote>When it comes to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45030552" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anti-Semitism in the Labour party</a>, the media have fallen for Corbyn’s deception too. Corbyn’s longstanding support for radical causes includes a penchant for Islamist anti-Semites. He invited members of Hamas and Hezbollah to the British Parliament as <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/01/jeremy-corbyn-under-pressure-to-denounce-friends-hamas-and-hezbo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“friends”</a> and was paid perhaps as much as £20,000 (about $27,000 at the time) to appear on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-paid-iran-press-tv-tortured-journalist-2016-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Iranian Press TV</a> — the same network that was <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9028435/Britain-bans-Irans-Press-TV-from-airwaves.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">banned</a> in the U.K. for its broadcast of a forced confession by a tortured Iranian journalist. In one appearance Corbyn mused that <a href="https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/corbyn-suspected-hand-of-israel-in-egypt-bombing-during-press-tv-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“the hand of Israel”</a> was involved in a terror attack in Egypt. He traveled to Tunisia in 2014 and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45196409" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">participated in a ceremony</a> honoring terrorists who murdered eleven Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Corbyn also hosted an event at the British Parliament in 2010 <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/jeremy-corbyn-hosted-event-likening-israel-to-nazis-6sb5rqd5x" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">comparing Israel to Nazi Germany</a> (part of a U.K. tour called “Never Again for Anyone — Auschwitz to Gaza”) and attended events by <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/20/jeremy-corbyns-10-year-association-group-denies-holocaust/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deir Yassin Remembered</a>, a group chaired by Holocaust denier Paul Eisen.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez, who has a documented history of anti-Semitism, has repeatedly praised or defended Jeremy Corbyn, Linda Sarsour, and Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s endorsement of Corbyn comes after she falsely accused President Donald Trump of anti-Semitism this week over a video clip where Trump was speaking to a group of supporters at the Israeli American Council and made obvious joking remarks.
&#8220;A lot of you are in the real estate business, because I know you very well, you&#8217;re brutal killers, not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me. You have no choice. You&#8217;re not going to vote for Pocahontas, I can tell you that,&#8221; Trump said as the audience cheered in favor of his remarks. &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to vote for the wealth tax! Yeah, let&#8217;s take 100% of your wealth away, no, no.&#8221;
&#8220;Even if you don&#8217;t like me, and some of you don&#8217;t, some of you I don&#8217;t like at all actually,&#8221; Trump continued as the audience laughed, adding, &#8220;and you&#8217;re going to be my biggest supporters because you&#8217;re going to be out of business in about 15 minutes if they get in.&#8221;
It was obvious that Trump was joking around with a crowd that was politically friendly toward him.
Despite this, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: &#8220;This is outright and atrocious antisemitism coming from the President, and it is dangerous.&#8221;
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This is outright and atrocious antisemitism coming from the President, and it is dangerous. <a href="https://t.co/E21xMrqSsP">https://t.co/E21xMrqSsP</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1204089453502971905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez Meddles In Foreign Election, Endorses Notorious Anti-Semite

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Once the political home for many British Jews, the Labour Party now faces a systemic anti-Semitism crisis. Leader Jeremy Corbyn fundamentally altered the Labour Party in 2015. His rise to leadership was accompanied by an affinity for Britain’s radical leftists and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/europe/karl-marx-admirer-jeremy-corbyn-voted-britains-labour-party-leader-n426316" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/europe/karl-marx-admirer-jeremy-corbyn-voted-britains-labour-party-leader-n426316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGaizO84EQWp5T2ku3LKMKwWT24Wg">Marx supporters,</a> including fervent anti-Zionists and pro-Palestinian sympathizers.
However, Corbyn and other Labour members have been accused of much more than merely criticizing the right-leaning government of Israel. Allegations range from Corbyn’s <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-not-a-man-of-the-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-not-a-man-of-the-people/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGVVTDKf-PjAxZA7JrJMRWjqQ292w">ties</a> to Deir Yassin Remembered, an anti-Israel organization led by a Holocaust denier, to Corbyn’s hosting a 2010 panel wherein Israelis were compared to Nazis. At National Review last month, David Harsanyi <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-reminds-us-why-israel-exists/">wrote</a> that a 2018 review of online posts by Labour Party Parliament members found “examples of Holocaust denial, crude stereotypes of Jewish bankers, conspiracy theories blaming 9/11 on Israel, and even one individual who appeared to believe that Hitler had been misunderstood.”
Equally as concerning is Corbyn’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist groups that specifically call for the destruction of Israel. In a 2009 speech in London, Corbyn notably <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/03/jeremy-corbyn-has-a-soft-spot-for-extremists-ira-hamas-hezbollah-britain-labour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/03/jeremy-corbyn-has-a-soft-spot-for-extremists-ira-hamas-hezbollah-britain-labour/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4pvTcb1-ldp6my3-NMeCjbWRjEA">described</a> these groups as his “friends.” His ultimate apology for that comment was overshadowed by his voluntary attendance at a 2012 Qatar conference that featured Palestinian militants previously imprisoned by Israel for perpetuating terror attacks against civilians. Corbyn described the terrorists’ comments as “fascinating and electrifying.”
In 2011, Corbyn <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-blamed-zionist-lobby-for-blood-libel-cleric-raed-salah-s-expulsion-from-the-uk-1.482455" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-blamed-zionist-lobby-for-blood-libel-cleric-raed-salah-s-expulsion-from-the-uk-1.482455&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGFc43jUXBUY-SCm9DJ4RtR5YfS0A">famously blamed</a> the “Zionist lobby” for procuring the deportation of the Islamist cleric notorious for promoting the infamous blood libel conspiracy, Raed Salah. The blood libel helped fuel the Nazis&#8217; genocidal, anti-Jewish crusades during the Holocaust. Salah was convicted in Israel for inciting violence and racism with statements like “whoever wants a more thorough explanation, let him ask what used to happen to some children in Europe, whose blood was mixed in with the dough of the (Jewish) holy bread.” Corbyn defended Salah, stating that it was “time that Western governments stood up to the Zionist lobby which seems to conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.”
Last month, Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/world/europe/chief-rabbi-labour-jeremy-corbyn.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/world/europe/chief-rabbi-labour-jeremy-corbyn.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGOs6QlT-yBhArnrZZJNHDO5wSyxQ">made</a> an unprecedented intervention in the United Kingdom’s political arena. He spelled out the anti-Jewish racism that has fully enveloped the Corbyn-led Labour Party.
On Sunday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-group-names-uks-corbyn-top-anti-semite-of-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-group-names-uks-corbyn-top-anti-semite-of-2019/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxwtPIuXAH-W3GKa4dJyKh6TGhIw">named</a> Corbyn as its top anti-Semite of 2019. Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Center, warned that if Corbyn wins, he would “make Britain a pariah on the world stage,” adding that “to have a person seeking the highest office who ignored anti-Semitism for years, who did everything in his power to encourage it, is shocking.”
Last year, Corbyn’s Labour Party <a href="https://www.thejc.com/comment/analysis/what-is-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism-and-why-has-labour-outraged-jews-by-rejecting-it-1.467511" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thejc.com/comment/analysis/what-is-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism-and-why-has-labour-outraged-jews-by-rejecting-it-1.467511&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEbSNNJ6EqoQE3lWMffqoTo2og3-w">refused</a> to accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance&#8217;s (IHRA) internationally endorsed definition of anti-Semitism. Instead, the Party constructed a revised version, omitting the description of the “dual loyalties” trope as anti-Semitic. The amended version also intentionally left out the notion that comparing Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is inherently anti-Semitic.
Public outrage has recently forced Corbyn to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/03/corbyn-apologises-for-antisemitism-in-labour-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/03/corbyn-apologises-for-antisemitism-in-labour-party&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHrPjuEO81z5uVsqpCxW9_TCvDPag">apologize</a> to the United Kingdom’s Jewish community. Corbyn stated he was “sorry for everything that has happened,” referring to the heightening tensions between the Labour Party and British Jews. The apology did not include a pledge to recognize the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism, however.
David <a>Harsanyi perfectly </a><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-reminds-us-why-israel-exists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-reminds-us-why-israel-exists/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576075895003000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4kzCYzxi-tOfwcZElk4tUHnC8JQ">summarized</a> the dire threat Jeremy Corbyn poses to Britain when he wrote that “Corbyn hasn’t merely &#8216;tolerated&#8217; anti-Semitic attitudes. He has actively transformed Labour into a safe haven for Jew hatred.” Corbyn’s watered-down apology cannot overturn the years of blatant and dangerous anti-Semitic rhetoric that has fueled the Labour Party under his leadership. Britain’s Jewish community must duly consider the chief rabbi’s unprecedented warnings and take a stand against Corbyn’s possible election.
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Maya Carlin is an M.A. candidate in counter-terrorism and homeland security at IDC Herzliya’s Lauder School of Government in Israel. She is also associate producer and analyst at the Center for Security Policy, located in Washington D.C.

Jeremy Corbyn Campaigns On North Coast Of Wales

CARLIN: Jeremy Corbyn Could Pose An Existential Threat To British Jews

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On Monday, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted a political attack video in which he blamed those countries who led the invasion of Iraq after 9/11 for the terrorist murderers of two Londoners last week, claimed the war on terror has “manifestly failed,” argued against confronting Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism and which murdered over 100 of its own citizens in the past week in order for the despotic regime to survive, and concluded with an attack on President Trump, whining, “Real security requires calmly making the right calls at moments of high pressure. So it is time for Britain to stop clinging to Donald Trump’s coattails. Boris Johnson has been the world’s leading sycophant towards the president.”
Corbyn began: “Sixteen years ago I warned against the invasion and occupation of Iraq. I said it would set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and the misery of future generations. It did.”
Over a photo of the flowers for the two Londoners murdered in a terrorist attack last week, Corbyn intoned, “And we are still living with the consequences today of that decision in 2003.” He continued, “I was also one of the few in Parliament who warned against the NATO-led intervention in Libya in 2011; Britain should not have joined that conflict, which has, as a result, created a vast, ungoverned space that’s contributed to misery in the region and made us less safe in this country and indeed, many other parts of Europe.”
Corbyn proclaimed, “The war on terror has manifestly failed. Britain’s repeated military interventions in North Africa and the wider Middle East, including Afghanistan, have exacerbated rather than resolved the problems.”
He continued, “Now we risk being dragged into a further conflict with Iran on the side of the Saudi regime which is itself an enemy of human rights and prolonging a desperate humanitarian crisis in Yemen, interfering in its neighbors’ affairs and murdering journalists. This policy has not made us one bit safer; if anything, it has made us less safe. So, Labour will stop arm sales to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen.&#8221;
Then, the attack on Trump: “Real security requires calmly making the right calls at moments of high pressure. So it is time for Britain to stop clinging to Donald Trump’s coattails. Boris Johnson has been the world’s leading sycophant towards the president. Our foreign policy will be defined by our commitments to human rights, international justice, and peace, not enthusiasm for was that fuel, rather than combat terrorism and insecurity.”
Corbyn’s sympathies for the despotic Iranian regime and other terrorist supporters  have been documented before; as The Australian <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-a-useful-idiot/news-story/bbde262ee1a00c766ec57f5c64e54b87">wrote in an op-ed</a> on Monday:
<blockquote>Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s shamefully pusillanimous response to the London Bridge terrorist attack should leave British voters in no doubt about the choice in next week’s election. His offhand “not necessarily, no” response when asked on Sky News UK whether he agreed terrorists should be kept in jail and not automatically released after serving half their sentences was a chilling reminder of the place Britain will be if Mr. Corbyn wins. It was fine, he indicated, for convicted terrorists such as Usman Khan, the London Bridge jihadist who knifed two people to death and injured another three, to be released early if they had been “rehabilitated.” …
No one should be surprised, however, by Mr. Corbyn’s naive and typically lunar-left indulgence towards terrorists and terrorism or attempts to blame the latest atrocity on Tory government cuts to prison and probationary services while carrying on about imprisoned terrorists’ human rights. Such concerns hardly accord with his longstanding “friendships” with the IRA (he had its leaders to tea two weeks after the Brighton IRA bombings almost wiped out Margaret Thatcher’s government) and murderous Hamas and Hezbollah thugs, and links to Iran’s terrorist-supporting regime.</blockquote>
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Corbyn Announces Foreign Policy In York

WATCH: Corbyn Mocks Trump, Boris Johnson, Blames The West For London Terrorist Murders Last Week

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing almost certain doom in the UK elections taking place in just over two weeks, but he&#8217;s getting a last minute boost from an unexpected source: the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.
Corbyn, the leader of UK&#8217;s Labour Party, would be the likely choice for Prime Minister if Labour pulls out a decisive victory in the upcoming contest, but currently the far-left legislator&#8217;s party &#8212; and accused anti-Semite &#8212; is running a startling 13 points behind Conservatives and looks headed for a likely defeat.
But defeat matters not to Sanders, who has formed something of a cross-ocean kinship with Corbyn, who, like Sanders, identifies as a &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; rather than as a traditional liberal. Back in April, the left-leaning publication, <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-and-jeremy-corbyn-might-create-a-revolution/">The Nation</a>, compared the pair to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, suggesting that just as the conservative alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom rose up in the early 1980s, so too could a liberal alliance, this time between &#8220;revolutionaires&#8221; Sanders and Corybn.
Sanders is floundering in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Not nearly as popular as he was four years ago, when he was the only progressive running for the nomination, Sanders has fallen well behind nationally and could be out of the race by Super Tuesday, after losing both New Hampshire and Iowa by a wide margin. There&#8217;s also concerns that the nearly 80-year old Sanders is in poor health and may not be able to complete an entire campaign, let alone an entire term as president.
So with little to do here, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/26/labour-gets-support-from-bernie-sanders-campaigners-in-us">the Guardian reports</a>, Sanders staffers have organized an international phone bank, pulling from their Democratic socialist ranks to campaign actively for Corbyn.
&#8220;Campaigners for US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have been lending their support to the Labour party, running phone-banking sessions from New York ahead of the general election,&#8221; the UK publication reports. &#8220;The city’s branch of Labour International has been working with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who have been calling British campaigners with tips on how to encourage people to register to vote and cast a ballot for Labour at the December poll.&#8221;
The DSA equivalent in the UK says this is the start of a beautiful friendship between the two parties.
&#8220;&#8216;A spokesperson for Momentum, the grassroots Labour campaign group, said: &#8216;This is part of a growing relationship between Bernie, DSA activists and Momentum and Labour members abroad that has included exchanges between the nurses’ unions of the US and the UK to campaign on public health in the US,'&#8221; the Guardian reported. &#8220;Canvassing sessions run by the US volunteers for Momentum campaigners in the UK on Saturdays are an attempt to support grassroots activism and turn out the vote for Labour.&#8221;
“Many Labour International and Momentum members have been volunteers on Sanders’ campaign and so the favour’s being returned,&#8221; one spokesperson for the organization said.
“I think it&#8217;s important that the U.K. elect a Labour government, specifically because they are putting forth such an incredibly positive and radical vision [of democratic socialism],&#8221; a spokesperson for the DSA <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/3147318/dsa-labour-party-work-to-elect-jeremy-corbyn-bernie-sanders-across-the-atlantic/">added to MTV News</a>.
The two parties are quite similar. Corbyn&#8217;s Labour party released a manifesto just last week announcing their renewed commitment to a variety of progressive propositions including &#8220;taxing the rich; protecting programs like &#8216;right to food&#8217; and national care services; decreasing or even eliminating the cost of education; introducing rent controls in big cities; and publicly funding health care.&#8221; They&#8217;re also radically opposed to Brexit.
They also share some unsavory qualities. Like Democratic socialists in America, Corbyn&#8217;s Labour party toys regularly with anti-Semitism. Unlike Democratic socialists in America, though, the anti-Semitism isn&#8217;t rare, and it isn&#8217;t couched as &#8220;criticism&#8221; of Israel. It&#8217;s often just straight up hate &#8212; and Corbyn has repeatedly, and recently according to the BBC, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50564965">refused to condemn it</a>.
&#8220;What I&#8217;ll say is this I am determined that our society is safe for people of all faiths,&#8221; Corbyn said in a recent interview, deliberately avoiding talking about anti-Semitism directly. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want anyone to be feeling insecure, in our society and our government will protect every community against the abuse they receive on the streets, on the trains, or in any other form of life.&#8221;
The Conservatives look likely to gain seats in the upcoming elections, thanks in part to a decision by far-right party, UKIP, to abandon challenges to vulnerable conservative politicians. But progressives in Corbyn&#8217;s party hope that Corbyn&#8217;s ideas can pull the party further left, the way Sanders&#8217; policies have pulled the Democrats, giving him a long-term impact on the UK&#8217;s government, regardless of victory.

Watch Out: Bernie Sanders Staffers Are Jumping The Pond To Work For Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn

Notorious anti-Semitic British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly refused to apologize for his anti-Semitism and struggled to answer questions about anti-Semitism from members of his party in a new interview with the BBC after his party was slammed by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis for being anti-Semitic.
In an interview with Andrew Neil, Corbyn refused to apologize for his anti-Semitism after Neil pressed him four times on the matter.
Here is the exchange between Neil and Corbyn on Corbyn&#8217;s anti-Semitism:
<blockquote>Neil: Many Jews. 80 per cent of Jews think that you’re anti-Semitic. That’s quite a lot of British Jews. I mean wouldn’t you like to take this opportunity tonight to apologise to the British Jewish community for what’s happened?
Corbyn: What I’ll say is this. I am determined that our society will be safe for people of all faiths. I don’t want anyone to be feeling insecure in our society and our government will protect every community –
Neil: So no apology?
Corbyn: – against the abuse they receive on the streets, on the trains or in any –
Neil: So no apology for how you’ve handled this?
Corbyn: – or any other form of life.
Neil: I’ll try one more time. No apology?
Corbyn: No, hang on a minute, Andrew. Can I explain what we’re trying to do?
Neil: You have and you’ve been given plenty of time to do that. I asked you if you wanted to apologise and you haven’t.
Corbyn: Andrew, I don’t want anyone to go through what anyone has gone through –
Neil: And you’ve said that several times. I understand that Mr Corbyn, I was asking you about an apology. Let’s move onto Brexit –</blockquote>
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No apology to the Jewish community from Jeremy Corbyn, as he is repeatedly challenged over claims of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party
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&mdash; BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1199393787149242368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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National Review published a brief <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/jeremy-corbyn-not-a-man-of-the-people/">overview</a> of just a few of the examples of anti-Semitism that have been leveled against Corbyn:
<blockquote>When it comes to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45030552" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anti-Semitism in the Labour party</a>, the media have fallen for Corbyn’s deception too. Corbyn’s longstanding support for radical causes includes a penchant for Islamist anti-Semites. He invited members of Hamas and Hezbollah to the British Parliament as <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/01/jeremy-corbyn-under-pressure-to-denounce-friends-hamas-and-hezbo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“friends”</a> and was paid perhaps as much as £20,000 (about $27,000 at the time) to appear on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-paid-iran-press-tv-tortured-journalist-2016-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Iranian Press TV</a> — the same network that was <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9028435/Britain-bans-Irans-Press-TV-from-airwaves.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">banned</a> in the U.K. for its broadcast of a forced confession by a tortured Iranian journalist. In one appearance Corbyn mused that <a href="https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/corbyn-suspected-hand-of-israel-in-egypt-bombing-during-press-tv-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“the hand of Israel”</a> was involved in a terror attack in Egypt. He traveled to Tunisia in 2014 and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45196409" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">participated in a ceremony</a> honoring terrorists who murdered eleven Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Corbyn also hosted an event at the British Parliament in 2010 <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/jeremy-corbyn-hosted-event-likening-israel-to-nazis-6sb5rqd5x" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">comparing Israel to Nazi Germany</a> (part of a U.K. tour called “Never Again for Anyone — Auschwitz to Gaza”) and attended events by <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/20/jeremy-corbyns-10-year-association-group-denies-holocaust/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deir Yassin Remembered</a>, a group chaired by Holocaust denier Paul Eisen.</blockquote>
During another portion of the interview, Corbyn repeatedly struggled to say that &#8220;Rothschild’s Zionists run Israel and world governments&#8221; was an anti-Semitic statement, a comment that was made by a member of his party.
Finally, after Corbyn agreed that the statement was an anti-Semitic trope, Neil pressed him on why the official had not been suspended or expelled from the far-left Labour Party.
&#8220;So we’re agreed it’s anti-Semitic? Right, that’s all I wanted to establish,&#8221; Neil said. &#8220;Yet these were the words used by Liam Moore. He’s a Labour member, former council candidate. Your party’s actually been investigating him now for almost a year. &#8230; But has he been suspended? He hasn’t been suspended. You said everybody’s been suspended or expelled –&#8221;
Corbyn responde by claiming that the investigation is still on-going regarding what was said, an idea that Neil dismissed because the investigation has been going on for a year.
&#8220;Why does it take a year to investigate someone who says Rothschild Zionists run Israel and world governments?&#8221; Neil asked.
&#8220;Look, I don’t know the process that is involved with him,&#8221; Corbyn claimed. &#8220;In some cases, I don’t know about his case, there is legal representations which often delay things a great deal.&#8221;
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“The investigation is ongoing so far as I’m aware, and action will be taken”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says investigations are continuing into comments by party member Liam Moore that “Rothschilds Zionists run Israel and world governments”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BBCElection?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BBCElection</a> <a href="https://t.co/6OYlLQaFZW">https://t.co/6OYlLQaFZW</a> <a href="https://t.co/pT96eLYFKB">pic.twitter.com/pT96eLYFKB</a>
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1199415726706020352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
During another portion of the interview, Neil grilled Corbyn over another member of his party who engaged in Holocaust denial.
&#8220;Is questioning whether six million Jews died in the Holocaust the kind of thing that should get you thrown out of the Labour Party?&#8221; Neil asked.
&#8220;It’s completely unacceptable and should not be happening,&#8221; Corbyn responded.
&#8220;Then let me give you the case of Lesley Perrin,&#8221; Neil responded. &#8220;She was a Labour Party member. She posted a video denying the Holocaust and questioned whether the six million figure was accurate. And what did the Labour Party do? It gave her a written warning. No expulsion, no zero tolerance, just a written warning.&#8221;
&#8220;That was some time ago I believe,&#8221; Corbyn answered. &#8220;You could perhaps give me the date of that.&#8221;
&#8220;The timing doesn’t matter, that’s what happened,&#8221; Neil responded. &#8220;But she posted it on Facebook on 2017, August. It’s not that long ago.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve strengthened the processes since then,&#8221; Corbyn claimed.
&#8220;But all you get for questioning the Holocaust, implying perhaps it didn’t happen and the six million figure she said was a real problem that you get a warning letter,&#8221; Neil fired back.
&#8220;Look, denying the Holocaust is appalling and it’s totally wrong. Holocaust denial is not acceptable in any &#8211; is not acceptable in any way whatsoever,&#8221; Corbyn responded.
&#8220;So why did she just get a letter of warning? Neil pressed. &#8220;Why did she just get a letter of warning?&#8221;
&#8220;Andrew, I’ve made it very clear. Holocaust denial is not acceptable,&#8221; Corbyn responded.
It&#8217;s worth noting that Corbyn is popular with the far-left in the United States, including with socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who has publicly praised him.
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It was an honor to share such a lovely and wide-reaching conversation with you, <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeremycorbyn</a>!
Also honored to share a great hope in the peace, prosperity, + justice that everyday people can create when we uplift one another across class, race, + identity both at home &amp; abroad. <a href="https://t.co/7qnz42I8du">https://t.co/7qnz42I8du</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1092210825228636161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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