Billy Bragg accuses Jews of fuelling the Labour anti-Semitism row
Corbyn ally Billy Bragg said the Jewish community must accept some responsibility for the fallout over Labour's anti-Semitism row.
SINGER Billy Bragg has accused Jews of “pouring petrol on the fire” by attacking Jeremy Corbyn in the anti-Semitism row.
Bragg, 60, an ally of the Labour leader, said the Jewish community had “work to do” and must shoulder some blame for the fallout.
Labour MP Wes Streeting mocked the musician’s approach as “novel”. And it came after namesake Labour peer Melvyn Bragg branded Mr Corbyn “feeble” for not dealing with the issue.
Meanwhile, two senior Labour ministers have suggested the party’s new code of conduct, drafted in the wake of the bitter row, should be rewritten.
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth and Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner criticised it for not fully adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance guidelines on the definition of anti-Semitism.
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Tory ex-Cabinet Minister Priti Patel said: “Anti-Semitism and racism should never be tolerated. Mr Corbyn and the hard left are the ones with ‘work to do’ to rebuild trust.
“It is a damning indictment on his leadership that he does nothing to stop the vile abuse and abusers in his movement.”
It came after Britain’s three main Jewish newspapers united to produce similar front pages warning of the “existential threat to Jewish life” if Mr Corbyn wins power.
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BILLY Bragg has spent a career fighting racism. Funny how he doesn’t take it as seriously when his beloved Labour Party directs hatred at Jews.
They now live in fear of the antisemitism Bragg’s mate Jeremy Corbyn has fostered in a potential party of Government.
It’s not a smear, concocted to wound Corbyn. They are justifiably terrified of persecution if he and his acolytes take power. They believe Labour would pose an “existential threat to Jewish life in this country”. Some would flee abroad.
So how dare Bragg tell Jews THEY are “pouring petrol on the fire”. How dare he say they must “work” to “rebuild trust” with an extremist hard-left party stoking violent prejudice against them?
Corbyn stands accused by one of his own MPs of being personally racist. And some of his supporters are truly vile, so high on self-righteousness they are blind to their own antisemitism or dismissive of it as not “proper” racism.
Labour even rewrote its antisemitism definitions to let these creatures express hate with impunity.
But Bragg won’t side with the victims this time. Why? Is it solely that he is an obnoxious hypocrite consumed by Corbynite devotion?
By contrast, Labour peer Lord Bragg — no relation — says: “Corbyn’s feebleness on this is a disgrace to Labour and shames its tradition of tolerance.”
What prevents the lesser Bragg reaching the same conclusion?
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