Leading British Jewish journalist Jonathan Freedland wrote on Saturday that the thought of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister strikes a fear among the majority of the British-Jewish community “that we have not known before.”
Britain’s Jews “for the first time in their history, have concluded that someone hostile to them is on the brink of taking democratic power. Yes, of course, not every single British Jew holds that view. But the most recent poll found that 87% regard Corbyn as an anti-Semite, meaning an anti-Jewish racist,” Freedland wrote in a column in The Guardian.
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