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Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-politics-labour/former-uk-chief-rabbi-calls-opposition-leader-corbyn-an-anti-semite-idUSKCN1LD25V

Former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: "An Anti-Semite Leads Labour"

(Reuters) Andrew MacAskill - Britain's former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (1991-2013) has called Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite. Sacks accused Corbyn of having "given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate who want to kill Jews and remove Israel from the map." "When he implies that, however long they have lived here, Jews are not fully British, he is using the language of classic pre-war European anti-Semitism," Sacks told the New Statesman. "Now, within living memory of the Holocaust, and while Jews are being murdered elsewhere in Europe for being Jews, we have an anti-Semite as the leader of the Labour party and Her Majesty's opposition. That is why Jews feel so threatened by Mr. Corbyn and those who support him."

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