UK Labour leader and would-be prime minister Jeremy Corbyn finally broke his silence on the accusations of anti-Semitism that have engulfed his party after Jewish community leaders said it posed an “existential threat.“
However, Corbyn’s promise to “root out anti-Semites” was dismissed as a stunt by some leading figures in the Jewish community, who scorned the fact that his article was “cynically” published late on a Friday afternoon, meaning many observant Jews could not engage with it.
