So was the crying of wolf not taking the "loony left" seriously enough? Or is it the taking it seriously now? What's he saying? Well he's certainly saying that we Jews don't like Jeremy Corbyn and now what are we Jews gonna do?Jeremy Corbyn’s likely ascension to Opposition Leader will mark the moment when the Jewish community becomes the community that cried wolf.If we were to take a collective selfie to mark that moment, we would appear visibly worried, because we’ve long mocked the left-winger’s brand of politics, caricaturing the ‘loony left’ and degrading it as an insignificant, irrelevant fringe, only to now see it on the verge of victory.
You see, having leveled the charge of antisemitism at so many people over the years we Jews may have devalued the currency. My thoughts? Well close to my thoughts except I don't go in for generalisations about "we Jews". Nope, I was actually paraphrasing the articles rather confused and confusing author:
Apart from Mr Mendel's use of the word "we" there's not a whole lot to disagree with here.We are to blame. Looking back we have not picked our battles well, smearing and disparaging lesser men, running our account dry. Now, when a genuine need arises (i.e. to shed light on Corbyn’s questionable links) we find we are all out of credit, ourselves discredited as “smearers” out to blacken a good man’s name.Compared to the likes of Galloway and Livingstone, Corbyn’s politics is more intelligent and palatable, but radical nonetheless, at least in our current climate of mundane consensus. Our reaction to him should have been different. Yet we have reacted to him as if he were calling for an Israeli-free London.We have played the wrong game. We’ve relied on character assassination, but on this he seems impenetrable.[emphases added]
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