Editor’s Note: The following letter to the editor was submitted to
Jewish Currents who declined to publish it.
In a recent article in
Jewish Currents by Joshua Leifer, “The Tragedy of Jeremy Corbyn,” he criticizes those from within the British Jewish community who attacked Corbyn while also perpetuating some of the same rhetoric and pitfalls as the community he critiques. While the author spoke to a number of people, he neglected to include some critical analysis offered by those closest to the situation in the UK and whose positions are different from what he put forth. He included a few quotes with these perspectives but a full story is missing. In a moment when the discourse around Palestinian rights and antisemitism is rife with conflation and omission, it’s critical to challenge this incomplete and distorted analysis.
As COVID Rages, We Are Experiencing Mass Abandonment Amid Abundance
People wait in line as SF-Marin Food Bank hands out 1,600 food bags at a pop-up pantry at Bayview Opera House in San Francisco, California, on April 20, 2020.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., offered this all-too-relevant comment on his moment in his 1967 speech “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”:
“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent.”
Like Holocaust deniers, Israeli ambassador in UK calls Nakba an Arab lie
10 Dec 2020
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Board of Deputies of British Jews came under criticism for giving a platform to Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely and letting her get away with calling the expulsion of Palestinians a very popular Arab lie .
The new ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom, Tzipi Hotovely, made desperate attempts to deny Nakba, a popular historical event that marked the violent expulsion of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli occupying forces in 1948.
For a moment, Hotovely exhibited the uninformed or rather hate-filled traits of Holocaust deniers, as she described the Nakba as a very strong and very popular Arab lie, while addressing people at an event organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews on Tuesday.