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The most important election in a lifetime vis-à-vis Jews in the United Kingdom as well the State of Israel and United Kingdom is almost upon us and we would be remiss if we did not add our opinion to the chorus of those concerned about the disaster a Corbyn victory would represent. All British voters should and must reject ant-Semitism and support Labour’s opponents. Anything less is an acquiescence to raw anti-Jewish hatred and bigotry that has swept the world in recent years.

On Dec. 3 Corbyn answered an ITV host by saying: “Our party and me do not accept anti-Semitism in any form. Obviously I am very sorry for everything that has happened, but I want to make this clear–I am dealing with it, I have dealt with it.”

But the hater could not help himself and countered: “Other parties are also affected by anti-Semitism. Candidates have been withdrawn by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, and by us, because of it.”

Corbyn must be judged for what he truly is: unrepentant.

Corbyn’s claims that his opposition (read hatred) for Israel and Zionism are not signs of any anti-Semitism are completely false.

And British Jews see through Corbyn’s lie: In an October poll for London’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper it was found that just 7 percent of Jewish respondents would consider voting for Labour because of how it has failed to address charges of anti-Semitism.

Before Corbyn took charge of the Labour party he was little known outside the UK. His appearances on both Russian and Iranian TV, providing his host with a hateful critique of the West that they desperately wanted to hear were a his hallmark.

Once Corbyn became Labour’s leader his penchant for sharing public platforms with Hamas and Hezbollah representatives — terrorists whom he heaped praise upon and than claimed he never knew — became newsworthy. It should be noted that Corbyn has never met a Marxist revolutionary movement he didn’t like and also supported the IRA.

A writer in The Atlantic may have best summed up what a nest of Jew hating extremists Labour had become:

“A Labour MP suggested shipping all Israeli Jews to America. The vice chair of the Labour steering group Momentum accused Jews of financing the slave trade. A member of the party’s executive committee questioned the numbers killed at Auschwitz. Jewish Labour MPs became the objects of hate mail from the party’s grassroots. One was referred to as the MP for Tel Aviv. Ken Livingstone, once the mayor of London and a close ally of Corbyn, quoted from a book he’d read that proved Hitler was a Zionist; it was only when he “went mad” that Hitler turned to gassing.”

Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis recently supplied a much needed voice of reason in an unprecedented essay of his published in The Times of London newspaper on Tuesday, Nov. 26 issue and much of it bears repeating.

Among the thoughts that Rabbi Mervis shared were:

“Convention dictates that the Chief Rabbi stays well away from party politics – and rightly so. However, challenging racism in all its forms is not a matter of politics, it goes well beyond that. Wherever there is evidence of it, including in any of our political parties, it must be swiftly rooted out. Hateful prejudice is always wrong, whoever the perpetrator, whoever the victim.”

“We sit powerless, watching with incredulity as supporters of the Labour leadership have hounded parliamentarians, party members and even staff out of the party for facing down anti-Jewish racism.”

“The way in which the leadership of the Labour Party has dealt with anti-Jewish racism is incompatible with the British values…”

Rabbi Mervis is clearly worried about the place Jews will have in British society should the Labour Party win on Dec. 12. What is much more telling is what Rabbi Mervis chose not to write.

Rabbi Mervis did not mention Israel once in his op-ed. Not once. And this despite so much of Labour’s blatant anti-Semitism being manifested in its genuinely hateful attitude towards Zionism and the Jewish State. That should be an indication of just how high the stakes are for British Jews in this election.

One thing is for sure should there be a Corbyn win, UK-Israel relations will be completely unrecognizable, possibly for generations.

We now wish to bring to the attention of our readers a Fox News article from just before Thanksgiving that you may have missed.

In this article it is reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu has “suggested that Israel may stop sharing intelligence with the U.K. if Jeremy Corbyn wins next month’s election and follows through on his pledge to stop selling weapons to Israel, according to a report Tuesday.”

More on this from Fox:

“Israel, along with the U.S., remains one of the U.K.’s most important intelligence partners on matters of terrorism and security. Mossad, the country’s main spy agency, is second only to the CIA in terms of intelligence sharing with Britain’s intelligence services. In September, when asked by the Telegraph whether that partnership would be jeopardized if Corbyn made good on his promise of an arms embargo to Israel, Netanyahu said: “What do you think?” Netanyahu did not elaborate, but Israeli officials have reinforced that sentiment.”

At last, a bright spot in all of this. An Israeli leader has made clear to the world that Israel is no second-rate power and that the UK may indeed need Israel more than Israel needs the UK.

We hope that UK voters will do the correct thing and reject Corbyn’s anti-Semitism. For their sake.

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