The former Archbishop of Canterbury has warned UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn he will never be prime minister unless he rids anti-Semitism from the “dark corners” of his party.
Lord George Carey, Baron of Clifton addressed Corbyn in a blunt speech in a New York synagogue over the weekend that hatred of Jews is rising in the ranks of Labour, at top universities and elsewhere in Britain, according to a report published Saturday in the Daily Mail.
If Corbyn does not take effective action, he said, “this will demonstrate that Labour is not ready to govern.” The 80-year-old former Archbishop said anti-Semitic incidents have reached their highest levels in 30 years – but it’s not only Jews who are affected.
Carey referred to a meeting in which Malia Bouattia, black students officer for the National Union of Students’, “claimed, astonishingly, that ‘UK Muslims find their democratic freedoms are comprehensively stripped.’ This will be news to the majority of Brits!” he exclaimed.
A vice-president of the Council of Christians and Jews, Carey called recent reports of anti-Semitic language used by Labour Party members “shocking.” Corbyn, he warned, will be ‘unfit to govern’ unless he eradicates the scourge from his party.
Carey pointed to a quote from one activist who reportedly told a New York synagogue, “We invented Israel when saving the Jews from Hitler, who now seems to be their teacher.”