Honest question: Does anybody really think Corbyn's supposed antisemitism cost Labour a meaningful number of votes? Do working-class people in leave areas actually care about Corbyn's position on BDS or Israeli settlements? I personally doubt it but the media has been mentioning this issue non-stop as a factor.
Of course not. Britain has always had a foul straim of anti-Semitism meaningfully impact public discourse. It runs quite thick through all segments of society, and anyone supposing that the Tories are any kind of a philo-Semitic refuge are delusional.
In any case, to watch Israeli and Zionist British voices break their arms triumphantly patting themselves so vigorously on the back as though their dishonest shrieking about Jeremy Corbyn actually mattered to anyone anywhere is astonishing. If anything, such histrionic madness is more and not less likely to encourage British anti-Semitism. It is a kind of critical inversion of the traditional victim culture championed by certain whiny leftists, where the rich, powerful Israel and its supporters become victims while the feckless Corbyn guy and his collection of radical pro-Palestinian betes-noirs are the powerful oppressors. And just as people get really annoyed hearing about how victimized privileged elites are, people will grow weary of hearing how Jews, perhaps the most (deservedly) protected group in Western Europe today, are feebled victims. It is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy that feeds the worst impulses of both Jewish society and the sick bigots who want to harm Jews.
