I just look a bit further down the line.
The anti-semitism saga was the stick the media beat Labour with. JC thinks/thought rightly or wrongly that it's a tiny problem because it does not compare with other issues.
When the election came, it's clear that JC lacked credibility because he has not sorted it.
If he could not solve a 'small problem' (according to him) then how can he be expected to solve bigger state problems?
Can you see the inconsistency of your argument?
No, because I am not making that argument. Corbyn is not is in the running and will not be standing against anyone.
My defence of Corbyn is for two reasons. Firstly because of the grossly unfair way he has been treated on an entirely false basis over the anti-semitism issue, initially by the Tories seizing an opportunity when Labour refused to accept that full definition, then joined by Jewish interests and the right wing media.
Secondly I support Corbyn's policies, the correct ones for these times and adopted last Autumn by the Tories because they were so good, demonstrating Corbyn could solve large problems just as well. I couldn't care less how ineffective a political animal Corbyn is, I'm only interested in outcomes.
Returning now to my first reason, the Tories had a big Jewish problem after WW2 since they wouldn't vote for anything hinting of right wing after their suffering at the hands of the extreme right wing Nazis, so they solidly supported Labour and most continued to over the decades. That's always rankled with the Tories who have never been able to completely overcome that bias.
So Labour's refusal to accept the full UN definition of anti-semitism was manna from heaven for them, an opportunity they seized with both hands to expand into a supposedly serious anti-semitic problem which it isn't and never was. All Labour have done is stand up for their human right to criticise Israel when criticism was justified, essential for any political party who have the intention to govern the country that created the human rights act.
For them to be criticised by the EHCR is an obscenity by a body not obeying it's own ruling on that right.
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