Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is poised to recapture party leadership in a landslide, which would be bad news for Israel supporters
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ONDON — If public opinion in Britain holds firm over the next three weeks Jeremy Corbyn the Labour leader who has been accused of whitewashing anti-Semitism within party ranks will recapture the party leadership in a landslide.
A poll conducted by YouGov this week showed Corbyn leading challenger Owen Smith by 62 % to 38 %.
The two candidates will have a chance to make their case before the Jewish community on September 18 when they appear for a debate at the Jewish Community Center inLondon.
Corbyn the current Labour head has set the tone for the party. The most left-wing leader in decades Corbyn has in the past called Hamas and Hezbollah “friends” (he later expressed regret for those comments). Earlier this year more than 30 Labour members were suspended from the party for their anti-Jewish rhetoric. Corbyn eventually ordered an investigation into party anti-Semitism and human rights lawyer Shami Chakrabarti produced a report that found some anti-Jewish bias within Labour. Jewish advocates however said the report did not go far enough to address the problem. For her part Ms. Chakrabarti was nominated for a peerage by Corbyn taking a seat in the House of Lords just weeks after the report was released.
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