During this countdown to the December 12 general election in the United Kingdom, as a Jewish American, I hope that British Jews cut through the MSM fog to remember that:
· The surest way, to increase Jew-blaming on the Right, would be for Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit to traumatize the UK economy while simultaneously removing “European Bureaucrats” from their decades-long place atop the list of scapegoats. Have British Jews forgotten who was blamed in the centuries before invention of “European Bureaucrats”?
· The surest way, to increase Jew-blaming on the Left (not to mention further dividing the Jewish Community), would be for Corbyn to lose this election after the UK Chief Rabbi’s extraordinary denunciation.
Moreover, in the department of simultaneous walking and chewing gum:
· Britain without a fast and hard Brexit will be better for British Jews, and a Corbyn-led government appears to be the only achievable path for achieving this.
· For voters who would like a strong non-Corbyn and non-Johnson coalition to unify, the fastest path to this is a Corbyn-government that will be preoccupied with Brexit renegotiation and re-referendum.
· For voters who believe that Corbyn is too weak to stand up to anti-Semitism, then it should follow that Corbyn is also be too weak to implement any of his policies against the resistance of both:
· a hundred of his own party’s Members of Parliament, and
· British Military, Intelligence and Finance institutions.
Add-on, link to some opinions, overlapping with mine, posted by a Jewish anthropologist in a self-tweeted video: