The contrast between the Labour mayoral candidate’s understanding of abominate crime and community relations and Zac Goldsmith’s lack of it is tellingly sharpA noteable feature of the London mayor campaign has been the praise heaped on Labour’s Sadiq Khan by Jewish media commentators. Following a hustings held by Jewish News last week,the paper’s online editor Jack Mendel applauded him for having “worked overtime to win the backing of the capital’s Jewish community despite a “mounting list of problems” with the Labour Party. “In my professional dealings with Sadiq Khan he seems to accumulate the problem,” Mendel enthused. By contrast: “Tory hopeful Zac Goldsmith seems to simply be lying low.”It’s not the first such tribute Khan has been paid. In January, or the Jewish Chronicle’s political correspondent Marcus Dysch expressed similar disappointment with Goldsmith. Describing a broken,bitter relationship between the community and Labour” which he felt had plummeted further” since Jeremy Corbyn became its leader, he thought the Tory candidate “could be expected to seize on this and, and coupled with his pro-Israel stance and Jewish background,secure the backing of Jewish voters.” And yet: “It is Mr Khan who has made the most appealing approach.” Dysch recalled Khan demonstrating:Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com