Former Chief Rabbi calls out Corbyn

The Guardian reports:

The former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has called Jeremy Corbyn an antisemite, saying the Labour leader's comment about Zionists at a 2013 conference was the most offensive statement by a senior UK politician since Enoch Powell's “rivers of blood” speech.

Labour dismissed the comparison with Powell as “absurd and offensive”.

In an interview with the New Statesman, Sacks, who was the UK's chief rabbi from 1991 to 2013, said Corbyn had “given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate who want to kill Jews and remove Israel from the map”.

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