Jeremy Corbyn is Drawn to Anti-Semitic People & Ideas

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is getting heat for anti-Semitism - again.


This time it is for an introduction he wrote in 2011 to J.A. Hobson's 1902 tract Imperialism: A Study.


The intellectual underpinnings of Hobson's critique of imperialism is the old reliable standby of Jewish control of money and, by extension, public policy:


These great businesses—banking, brokering, bill discounting, loan floating, company promoting—form the central ganglion of international capitalism. United by the strongest bonds of organization, always in closest and quickest touch with one another, situated in the very heart of the business capital of every state, controlled, so far as Europe is concerned, chiefly by men of a single and peculiar race, who have behind them many centuries of financial experience, they are in a unique position to control the policy of nations. No great quick direction of capital is possible save by their consent and through their agency. Does anyone seriously suppose that a great war could be undertaken by any European state, or a great state loan subscribed, if the house of Rothschild and its connections set their face against it?


Labour Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey claimed Corbyn's praise of Hobson’s work had nothing to do with anti-Semitism. “He was looking at the political thought within the whole text itself, not the comments that were antisemitic … Jeremy vigorously would not support antisemitic statements made by this writer or any writer,” said Long-Bailey, “Jeremy was looking at the political thought … not comments that were antisemitic. Jeremy is not unlike other politicians who have quoted Hobson in speeches and written pieces about them.”


For someone who purportedly admires Hobson for everything but his anti-Semitic comments, Jeremy Corbyn has a habit of being in the company of people who are anti-Semitic. He just happened to be present when wreaths were laid for PLO terrorists responsible for planning the Munich attacks during the 1972 Summer Olympics which claimed the lives of 11 Israelis. He just happened to go out of his way to praise an artist who painted a mural depicting Jewish bankers (complete with hook noses) playing Monopoly on the backs of naked workers. He just happened to make a point of, while praising the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, that British Zionists (re: Jews) who lived in Britain their whole lives had no sense of irony. He just happened to show up on Press TV, Iran's state channel. This would be the country that wishes to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth while denying the Holocaust. Speaking of the Holocaust, he just happened to spend years associating with a group that denied the Holocaust even after this information came to light.


Given the lengths to which Corbyn has spent associating with and defending anti-Semites, one must ask if Corbyn would have bothered to write a foreword for Hobson if he wasn't anti-Semitic.