Corbyn continues to be offensively inept

The offensive clown show continues.

Gideon Falter, chairman of the group, said: "Jeremy Corbyn has released yet another bland statement devoid of any apology for his own anti-Semitism or promises of specific actions. In his Guardian article on Friday he called our concerns 'overheated rhetoric' and in this video he says that our concerns must not be dismissed. It is just another contradictory, hypocritical, insincere attempt to whitewash his own role as the author of this nightmare."

The timing of the article was condemned by the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Marie Van Der Zyl and chair of the Jewish Leadership Council Jonathan Goldstein. Writing for the New Statesman on Sunday, they said: "Jeremy Corbyn's office asked us whether it would be insensitive to release a statement on Friday afternoon, before the Jewish Sabbath. We said it would be an act of tremendous bad faith. He clearly ignored us. He deliberately picked a time that he knew all the mainstream Jewish organisations were closed for our holy day. This tells you as much as you need to know about him and the contempt with which many of those around him regard the Jewish community."

Mr Watson called for Mr Corbyn to adopt the full definition of anti-Semitism in his interview on Sunday, and also said internal inquiries into Jewish Labour MPs Margaret Hodge and Ian Austin should be dropped. His pleas were not addressed in Mr Corbyn's message, which was posted on Twitter. Meanwhile, Mr Watson has now faced calls to resign, following his comments. He wrote that he "never, ever" thought he would face demands to quit "for standing up for people who are facing prejudice and hate".

Mr Watson said: "I have frequently had very difficult conversations with both Margaret and Ian, but what I understand is that your critics are not your enemies. On an issue that is so dear to them, I think people are very, very concerned that these investigations should be dropped quickly."

Can't say I'm exactly Watson's biggest fan, but that is bang on. Hating the state of Israel is hardly the same as anti-Semitism, but Corbyn seems pretty determined (much like May) to do everything in the worst possible way. How did we get to this state of electing farcical leaders with absurd levels of moral absolutism ? Say what you like about cognitive biases, things did used to be better than this. I remember it quite distinctly. We didn't have anything even remotely resembling a utopia, but goddammit we did not have leaders this farcically incompetent.
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