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How the Israel Lobby Tried to Tank Jeremy Corbyn: In-Depth Analysis w/ Asa Winstanley

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

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Jeremy Corbyn and the Anti-Semitic Movement

Jeremy Corbyn has been targeted pretty much his whole career with this essentially smear of anti-Semitism so before he became labor party leader there were attacks against him in situations that he was anti-Semitic for wanting to investigate the way a conservative government at the time had banned a Palestinian political leader from visiting the country. The Jewish Chronicle put out an article misquoting Jeremy Corbyn claiming that he had called for an investigation of the Jewish lobby which was completely untrue. He hadn't even said that you know he just called for an Investigation of how the British government made this decision around this particular Palestinian leader at the time. I argue in the book that this was really the most effective because it was the

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