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Third Elections Appear Inevitable in Israel PATRIOTS Opinion. Tradition. RECEIVER NO TO NO LONGER SUPPORTS JEREMY SHALL YOU BE ISRAELI CORBYN CALLED JACOB BASEBALL A2. A9. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019 | 15 KISLEV 5780 VOL. XLV NO. 2434 Third Elections Israeli Student Badly Beaten on Appear Inevitable Paris Metro by in Israel ‘Antisemitic, Anti- Zionist’ Assailant BY BEN COHEN An Israeli student is recovering in a French hospital after he was brutally beaten up on the Paris subway by a man who overheard him speaking in Hebrew on his cellphone. The incident took place just before 7 p.m. on Monday night, the French Jewish security organization BNVCA reported. As the student boarded a train at the Château d’Eau station on the Paris Metro together with a friend, he received a phone call from his father, which he answered Benny Gantz, Avigdor Lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Reuters /Ronen Zvulun, Nir Elias, Amir Cohen / File. Israeli student B. Yogev was beaten up on the Paris Metro by an ‘anti-Zionist, antisemitic’ assailant. Photo: Meyer Habib Twitter feed. BY BENJAMIN rotating arrangement with party announced — March 2. chairman Benny Gantz. Netanyahu called earlier in Hebrew. The two men — both said to be 6 feet in height KERSTEIN Following a second round of Monday for Lieberman to renege and of African origin — immediately began shouting aggres- Israeli politics remained elections in September after a vote on his pledge to only support a sively at the student, who has been named as B. Yogev, in his stuck in a logjam on Monday, with in April failed to produce a clear unity government and instead join early 30s. Other passengers on the train also pointed toward Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor winner, both Netanyahu and Gantz a narrow right-wing coalition. Yogev and began threatening him, the BNVCA said. Lieberman appearing to rebuff have failed to form a workable The Israeli news site Walla One of the men then landed several punches to Yogev’s a call to join a right-wing coali- governing coalition. If one was reported that Lieberman seemed head, face and body, knocking him to the floor of the subway tion headed by Prime Minister not established by Wednesday, a to reject any such possibility, carriage and leaving him with concussion and a broken nose. Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue third round of elections would be telling a group of officials from Yogev was taken to Lariboisière Hospital in Paris, accompa- and White party number two Yair triggered automatically. Netanyahu’s Likud party on nied by the friend with whom he was traveling, who was not Lapid saying he would forgo a On Monday, a tentative date Monday evening that “a narrow Continued on Page A3 for those potential elections was Continued on Page A4 Jews Must ShabbatCalendar Parshat VAYISHLACH Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 4:11pm | Shabbat Ends: 5:15pm פרשת וישלח Never Give Up P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 page A8 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2019 The Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019 Opinion. Jeremy Corbyn Should Not Get to Downing Street however, this election has very little to do with been suspended from Labour for virulent Brexit, and everything to do with the possibility antisemitism, asked to have the suspension PINI DUNNER that Corbyn might become prime minister of a overturned on the grounds that she was “on LOS ANGELES significant Western country like the UK. friendly terms” with Corbyn. Why? Because Corbyn is an antisemite. A former compliance officer also told JLM It’s as simple as that. that cases of “harrowing antisemitic abuse” Despite his vehement denials of any were “routinely ignored” by Corbyn’s office. By this time next week, Jeremy Corbyn prejudice against Jews, or indeed anyone, What strikes me most about Corbyn and despite his protestations that the Labour and the accusations of antisemitism are his could be the newly-elected prime minister Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader of the United Kingdom. The gap in the polls Party he leads is devoted to fighting racism insistent denials, as if we are all too stupid to Jeremy Corbyn, Dec. 3, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Lisi Niesner. between him and his primary opponent, Boris and prejudice in all its forms, Corbyn clearly interpret the evidence. Johnson, is closing. despises Jews (except, of course, those Jews In a 2009 speech in London, Corbyn and electrifying.” Even if Johnson’s Conservative Party gets who say they will vote for him, although, described terrorist organizations Hamas and The most insidious threats always come more votes than Corbyn, the election could still truthfully, he probably despises them too). Hezbollah as his “friends” — and although he from people who deny that they pose any result in a “hung parliament,” which means no In a dossier published this week, the later claimed to regret his statement, he has threat. If someone tells you how honest and party has managed to achieve a majority. This Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), a veteran been openly friendly with Islamic extremists straightforward they are, think twice before is a situation that could also hand Corbyn the socialist affiliate of the UK Labour Party, throughout his decades-long political life. you invest any money with them. If someone country’s leadership — if he is able to cobble stunningly revealed that Corbyn “has His assertions that one has to engage with tells you how easygoing they are, be aware together a coalition with smaller parties to repeatedly associated with, sympathized with, those one disagrees with in order to facilitate that they are probably very sensitive, and just form a majority government. and engaged in antisemitism.” solutions ring very hollow; I am not aware that watch your p’s and q’s. Ordinarily, British elections barely Accusing the Labour Party of a “hostile he has ever met with Benjamin Netanyahu, The effort to lull people into a false sense register as news for those outside the UK, response to antisemitism,” and of “defending nor even representatives of Israel’s Labor of security is as old as history itself, and and unless one has a personal interest in the perpetrators,” the dossier provides evidence Party or mainstream peace camp activists, at the archetype villain masquerading as an outcome, the coverage hovers indiscernibly that there has been a “cover-up” regarding any stage of his political life. He has certainly upstanding person is none other than Laban, in the background of the 24-hour news cycle. antisemitism in the Labour Party — a cover-up not gone on the record to call them his friends. uncle and father-in-law of Jacob, whose But this election is different. The Brexit that emanates directly from the leader’s office. In 2012, Corbyn attended a conference in duplicity is recorded in Parshat Vayeitzei. debacle that has frozen British politics for the An anonymous former member of Qatar that included two Palestinian militants After Jacob completes seven years of past three-and-a-half years is finally coming Corbyn’s inner team told JLM that when that had been recently released by Israel in working for Laban in return for his daughter to a head, and the outcome of this election anyone demanded for former London exchange for a captured soldier: Abdul Aziz Rachel’s hand in marriage, Laban, in an act of will have real and potentially damaging Mayor Ken Livingstone to be excluded from Umar, convicted in Israel for his role in a extraordinary deceit, decides to give Jacob his repercussions for a range of vested interests Labour for his antisemitic comments, they 2003 suicide bombing in Jerusalem, in which other daughter — Leah — instead. well-beyond the UK. Stakeholders across were accused of a being part of a “Jewish seven people were killed; and Husam Badran, But when he is confronted by Jacob, the globe, not just in Europe, are anxiously conspiracy” and of being engaged in a a former head of Hamas’ military operations instead of admitting he has done something awaiting the result so that they can realistically “political smear campaign.” who planned suicide bombings that killed wrong, he simply dismisses the accusation plan for their future dealings with Britain. Seamus Milne, Corbyn’s head of strategy, more than 100 people. Corbyn found their as unfounded — “this is the way we do things when he heard that a Labour member had contributions at the conference “fascinating For Jews in the UK and around the world, Continued on Page A3 A UK Paper and ‘The Trouble With Jews Today’ the that he “of course, indisputably reject[s] while decades ago it was the standard antisemitism in all its forms.” international position, it is more and more Algemeiner Journal SIMON PLOSKER Except that he clearly doesn’t. The Inter- proclaimed a threat to Israel’s existence (USPS 927800) is published weekly JERUSALEM national Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and thus antisemitic. [emphasis added] (except for the week of Passover (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism The charge that accusations of antisemi- and Succos) includes: “Holding Jews collectively respon- tism are made in bad faith to smear opponents Subscription rate $40 per year sible for actions of the State of Israel.” Yet for of Israel and shut down legitimate debate In the run-up to the British general him, Israel is “the trouble with Jews today.” over Israeli policies is a well-worn method of Algemeiner Journal election, the UK media has, for the most But Zizek is not working from a recog- dismissing antisemitism and portraying those 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 part, been relatively sympathetic towards the nized definition of antisemitism, but his own who attack Jews and Israel as the real victims.
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