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In his Daily Telegraph article on which you report (Chief rabbi: Labour has severe problem with antisemitism,
theguardian.com, 4 May), Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said the antisemitism crisis
engulfing Labour had “lifted the lid” on bigotry.
He joins
in the sensationalist allegations of antisemitism in the Labour party, where
the headlines’ decibel level is in inverse proportion to the evidence
supporting them.
Ignoring the more serious anti-Muslim racism in electoral
politics, Rabbi Mirvis attacks the Labour party
by launching a defence of Zionism which turns it from a political ideology
(that can be supported or opposed) into a religion that is beyond question.
We
British Jews reject this categorically.
Mirvis
attacks as “antisemitic” those who separate Judaism from Zionism. Yet most Jews
who perished in the Holocaust were indifferent to Zionism and many opposed it.
In the last municipal elections in Europe’s largest Jewish community, in
Poland, just before the second world war, Poland’s Jews voted overwhelmingly
for the secular, anti-Zionist, socialists of the Bund, while Zionist parties
got derisory votes.
Is Rabbi Mirvis recasting those victims of the Holocaust
posthumously as enemies of Judaism and therefore as antisemites?
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