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For any copyright, please send me a message. LONDON — For many in the Jewish community, the apology came way too late. The opposition Labour Party’s Treasury spokesman, John McDonnell, the right-hand man of leader Jeremy Corbyn, was grim-faced on the BBC as he admitted to instances of anti-Semitism in the party in recent years, doing serious damage to its chances of victory in Thursday’s election. “I apologize to the Jewish community for the suffering we’ve inflicted on them,” McDonnell said Sunday. But while McDonnell offered an apology, Corbyn drew fire for a primetime BBC interview in which he repeatedly refused to apologize to the country’s Jewish community ― likely to be remembered as one of the key moments in the campaign. Elected Labour leader in 2015, Corbyn mobilized huge grassroots energy to shock the centrist party establishment. In 2017, he defied expectations, depriving Conservative leader Theresa May of a majority in Parliament. Boris Johnson’s decision to go for another snap election this Christmas has given Corbyn a second and likely final chance at power. But if the polls are to be believed, the prospect has slipped away. Win or lose, the 70-year-old self-styled “anti-racism campaigner” is likely to be remembered in part for accusations he, at best, turned a blind eye to anti-Semitism. The Jewish community represents 0.5% of the 66.4 million people who live in the U.K. Three out of five Jews live in the London area. A recent poll showed just 7% of British Jews would vote for Labour at the election. But 42% said they would consider backing the party if Corbyn were replaced as leader. (It is worth noting, however, that an overwhelming majority of British Jews voted against Labour in 2015, when it was led by Corbyn’s predecessor Ed Miliband, who is of Jewish ancestry.) The accusations of racism in British politics are not confined to one party. Three Conservative parliamentary candidates are being investigated for anti-Semitism. Johnson has also come under intense pressure to investigate Islamophobia in his party. And the prime minister himself, a former journalist, has a long history of making incendiary comments in his newspaper columns, including describing black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles.” More recently he said Muslim women who wear burqas “look like letter boxes.” But public attention has long been on Corbyn over his long history of supporting the Palestinian cause and criticizing the government of Israel for human rights abuses. Corbyn has long denied that he has allowed anti-Semitism to take root in his party and has insisted there is “no place whatsoever” for anti-Jewish racism in Labour. “Be absolutely clear of this assurance from me — no community will
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