The Implosion of Jeremy Corbyn
The leader of the Labour Party not only has failed to confront anti-Semitism, but seems unable to acknowledge it as a problem.
It may have been at the Sternberg Center, where a large overflow marquee housed my London congregation on the High Holidays. There was an abandoned trailer in the woods behind it, and we kids would sneak out to play in it. I don’t even remember specifically when it happened. But I remember the sound of the word the first time I heard it spoken, its icy vituperation, the way the speaker’s jaw moved around the syllable. “Kike.”
Even so, until recently, “anti-Semitism” still struck me as a clinical concept, remote from my daily experiences. But Jeremy Corbyn has made it unavoidable. The leader of the Labour Party has managed to create a self-made political calamity of hypnotic proportions, one that
