The heads-up this week to American Democrats from Nigel Farage strikes us as more newsworthy than its coverage so far would suggest. He’s warning that left-wing hostility to Israel could deliver to Democrats the kind of political catastrophe that befell Labor in Britain in December 2019. That’s when voters, reacting in part to Labor’s hostility to the Jewish state, gave Conservatives such a victory that Jeremy Corbyn was forced to resign.
On a visit here, Mr. Farage, a founding father of the Brexit movement, issued his warning in an interview Monday with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. He reckoned that Mr. Corbyn’s taking the Labor Party “in the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel but clearly also anti-Semitic direction” had prompted voters in “Middle England” to say “‘we don’t like this kind of extremism,’ and it did hurt the Labor Party.”
“I think,” Mr Farage also said, “there are many instances here in the
USA of members of Congress who are supporting these Palestinian
protests.” He scored the Democrats for failing to condemn attacks on
Jews “in strong enough terms.” He suggested that “across the western
world” the left has “openly supported a Palestinian cause that behaves
more like a terrorist organization,” and “decent people don’t like this
sort of thing.”.........To Read More.......
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