Hans Rustad “The party leadership have never understood that their failure is not just one of procedure, which can be remedied with additional staff or new processes.
“It is a failure to see this as a human problem rather than a political one. It is a failure of culture.
Sjefrabbiner Ephraim Mirvis. Foto: Jonathan Brady/PA/Scanpix
Sjefrabbiner i Storbritannia, Ephraim Mirvis, har publisert en artikkel i the Times der han sier at Jeremy Corbyn er uskikket til å bli landets leder fordi han har sluppet antisemittisme inn i Arbeiderpartiet.
Ifølge Mirvis er det ikke noen utskudd det er snakk om. Arbeiderpartiet har blitt et antisemittisk parti.
In an unprecedented intervention in the general election, Ephraim Mirvis attacked Mr Corbyn’s “utterly inadequate” response to Jewish MPs being “hounded out” of the party, saying he was “complicit in prejudice”.
Det er meget sterkt at sjefrabbineren velger å gå ut rett før valget 12. desember. Men ifølge Mirvis kan ikke Storbritannia ha en leder som er antisemitt.
No previous Chief Rabbi has ever publicly taken sides in an election campaign, but Rabbi Mirvis said Mr Corbyn’s behaviour had left him no choice as he fears for “the moral compass of our country” if he were to become prime minister.
Rabbiner Mirvis spør hva som skal til før Labour-lederen tar rev i seilene.
He writes: “Would associations with those who have openly incited hatred against Jews be enough?
“Would support for a racist mural, depicting powerful hook-nosed Jews supposedly getting rich at the expense of the weak and downtrodden be enough?
“Would describing as ‘friends’ those who endorse and even perpetrate the murder of Jews be enough? It seems not.”
Labour har hatt mange undersøkelser gående i enkelttilfeller. Labour hevder de har tatt et oppgjør. Men dette er løgn, skriver Mirvis.
But Rabbi Mirvis dismissed this as “mendacious fiction.”
Substansen mangler, det skjer ikke noe som endrer kulturen, skriver Mirvis.
Mirvis skriver at han har tenkt lenge og hardt over om han skulle gå offentlig ut, men at han kom til at han ikke kunne la være. Han sier en ny gift har slått rot i Arbeiderpartiet og at den er godkjent fra toppen.
“It is a failure of leadership. A new poison – sanctioned from the very top – has taken root in the Labour Party.”
Også en annen rabbiner, Jonathan Romain, støtter Mirvis. Normalt blander ikke rabbinere seg i politikk, men dette er ikke normale tider, sier Romain.
“The anti-Semitism that has come to the fore within the Labour Party during the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn means that normal considerations are superseded.”
Meningsmålinger viser at den vedvarende oppmerksomheten rundt antisemittisme koster Labour mange stemmer. Hele 27 prosent sier de ikke vil stemme Labour så lenge partiet ikke tar et oppgjør og renser ut denne giften.
Chief Rabbi says Jeremy Corbyn is not fit for high office in wake of Labour anti-Semitism
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