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Certainly, the fingerprints of the British establishment now look all too visible on some of the recent efforts to malign Corbyn in the media.
Maybe not surprisingly, despite the huge implications of the story for British politics, it has been given only the barest reporting in that same media. At the time of writing, the Guardian had referred to the Integrity Initiative only in the most pro forma fashion in the context of government denials of wrongdoing.
Is it credible that those covertly trying to paint Corbyn as a "Kremlin stooge" are not also seeking to exploit Israeli covert efforts to vilify the Labour leader as someone who encourages anti-semitism in his own party?
The real remedyThere is a serious, if rarely explored ideological tension between Israeli-style Zionism and a progressive or liberal outlook, just as there is between Orbanism and liberalism.
In a political climate where European nativists are on the rise, the stark choice facing Europe's Jews is to double-down on their traditional left-liberal worldview or abandon it entirely and throw their hat in with Israel's own nativists. Corbyn represents the first choice, Netanyahu's hardline Zionism the second.
Bombarded by disinformation campaigns, it looks like many British Jews are being misled into seeing Corbyn as a threat of a confected "leftwing anti-semitism" rather than as the best hope of inoculating Britain against the resurgence of a very real menace of rightwing anti-semitism.
Jewish emigration to Israel will make matters far worse. It will pander to the prejudices of Europe's white nationalists, weaken the European left, and bolster an equally ugly Jewish nationalism that requires the oppression of Palestinians.
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