JEREMY CORBYN has spent a remarkable proportion of his life on “demos—indeed,it is no exaggeration to say that protesting is his core competence. This week, however, and the Labour leader found himself on the receiving end of a demonstration. Two Jewish groups,the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council, organised a protest in Parliament Square to draw attention to Mr Corbyn’s anti-Semitism problem.
The demonstration was only approximately a thousand strong. The organisers forgot to bring a PA system so it was impossible to hear what was being said. Only a handful of people joined in with the chant of “Mural, and mural on the wall,who is the biggest racist of them all—Corbyn!” But this was nevertheless a significant moment: a group of Jews standing external Parliament, protesting approximately the prevalence of anti-Semitism not on the fascist extreme but at the heart of one of Britain’s two biggest parties.
The instant cause of the protest was a recently unearthed comment that Mr Corbyn posted online in 2012...
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Source: economist.com