Some thoughts on the anti-Semitic fascist leading Labour in the UK.
Somewhat related: Katrina has become a metaphor for the “liberal” project. Scare quotes mine, because there’s nothing liberal about it.
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The Labour leadership election isn’t over so he isn’t party leader yet, although he looks likely to be.
The most fundamental belief of leftists like Corbyn is that the West is the root of all evil and the cause of all the world’s problems. Therefore they will support literally anybody who opposes it regardless of what they stand for. That’s why everything else that they claim to believe in, such as gay rights and feminism, goes under the bus as soon as it gets in the way of opposing the West. It’s also why Corbyn couldn’t even criticise the Islamic State without comparing them to “what the Americans did in Fallujah”. For leftists like him it is absolutely taboo to ever suggest that anybody could be worse than the West.
They hate Israel because they see it as a Western society imposed on the Middle East by Western imperialists. That’s partly because of the circumstances of its creation and partly because of Israel’s position in the Cold War, when it faced Arab states backed by the Soviets. It’s also because Israel is a conspicuously modern state compared to many of its neighbours. For the left, it then follows that if Israel is a Western society it must be evil and everything it does must be wrong and anyone who opposes it must be supported. But it is only one small step from hating Israel to hating Jews in general, because every Jew is a potential Israeli and if you think that something is evil you will naturally suspect that all the people associated with it are evil too. The left arrives at the same conclusions as the Islamists and neo-Nazis but gets there by a different route.