Last month Netanyahu made that conflation explicit in a video message to a conference in Vienna. While praising Orban, he averred: "Anti-semitism and anti-Zionism, anti-Israeli polices the idea that the Jewish people don't have the right for a state that's the ultimate anti-semitism of today."
But it is not just Netanyahu who is stoking the patently preposterous notion that anti-racists like Corbyn those whose principles require that they reject Jewish privilege over Palestinians are really secret Jew-haters.
If that were the case, the criticisms of Corbyn might not have as much traction with British Jews as this month's EU poll suggests.
Media distortionsThe UK media have played a vital role in promoting a false image of Corbyn, as a survey by the Media Reform Coalition found in September when it analysed British coverage of the Labour party.
The coalition, which is led by academics, concluded that there had been systematic "disinformation" from media outlets. Inaccurate and misleading reporting by the supposedly liberal Guardian was especially pronounced.
"Two thirds of the news segments on television contained at least one reporting error or substantive distortion," its researchers also discovered.
These failures included "marked skews in sourcing, omission of essential context or right of reply, misquotation, and false assertions made either by journalists themselves or sources whose contentious claims were neither challenged nor countered."
Covert propagandaThe group is reluctant to infer that these consistent media failures indicate an intention to smear Corbyn.
But revelations this month provide reason to believe that powerful interests in the UK are prepared to use dirty tricks to keep the Labour leader out of power.
According to hacked documents, a network of politicians, academics, journalists and military personnel in Britain and elsewhere have been engaged in covert propaganda to shore up pro-western narratives and smear dissidents through an organisation called Integrity Initiative.
In the UK, these operations have been overseen by an even more shadowy group called the Institute for Statecraft, with a fake address in Scotland. In fact, it is headquartered in London and staffed by former and possibly current military intelligence officers.
The UK government has been forced to admit that the institute has received substantial payments from the foreign office and defence ministry, and from the British army.
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