By Gilad Atzmon: Last week we read on Corbyn's capitulation to the UK Jewish Lobby . This week, a new ‘Labour scandal’ is emerging and once again the Jews are at the centre. The Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) is ‘antisemitic’. Its members “were in the habit of casually referring to Jewish students as ‘Zio’.
They repeated ‘tropes’ about the ‘Zionist lobby’ and ‘high net worth Jewish individuals’. Alex Chalmers, the chair of Oxford Labour students, resigned. He confessed that “a large proportion of both OULC and the student left in Oxford more generally have some kind of problem with Jews.” I was always convinced that opposing Zion and ‘Zios’ makes one into an anti Zionist rather than an anti semite. Seemingly referring to the disastrous impact of the powerful Jewish lobby is not appreciated in Corbyn’s new ‘radical’ party.
The Guardian reported today that the Labour party’s national student organisation has launched an inquiry into allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at the OULC. Apparently 'Zio' Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader who was due to address the club’s annual John Smith memorial dinner in a few weeks’ time, said he was “deeply disturbed”
They repeated ‘tropes’ about the ‘Zionist lobby’ and ‘high net worth Jewish individuals’. Alex Chalmers, the chair of Oxford Labour students, resigned. He confessed that “a large proportion of both OULC and the student left in Oxford more generally have some kind of problem with Jews.” I was always convinced that opposing Zion and ‘Zios’ makes one into an anti Zionist rather than an anti semite. Seemingly referring to the disastrous impact of the powerful Jewish lobby is not appreciated in Corbyn’s new ‘radical’ party.
The Guardian reported today that the Labour party’s national student organisation has launched an inquiry into allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at the OULC. Apparently 'Zio' Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader who was due to address the club’s annual John Smith memorial dinner in a few weeks’ time, said he was “deeply disturbed”