Where is our Jeremy Corbyn?

[ellenrr]

"The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his country’s political establishment. But because he held fast to the socialist ideals that defined the old Labour Party, he has risen untarnished out of the ash heap of neoliberalism. His integrity, as well as his fearlessness, offers a lesson to America’s self-identified left, which is long on rhetoric, preoccupied with accommodating the power elites—especially those in the Democratic Party—and very short on courage.

Jeremy Corbyn, who supports negotiations with Hamas and Hezbollah and once invited members from those organizations to visit Parliament, has called for Israel’s leaders to be put on trial for war crimes against the Palestinians."

I will not support a politician who sells out the Palestinians and panders to the Israel lobby any more than I will support a politician who refuses to confront the bloated military and arms industry or white supremacy and racial injustice."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/where_is_our_jeremy_corbyn_20150913#.VfbBY9v0RtI.facebook

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. They call him Bernie, Bernie Sanders, King of the Wild Chamber...

(To the tune of 'Davey Crockett', a TV theme song known to old codgers and youngins who watch shows that went off the air before they were born...)

[LWolf]

3. I got that tune

just from your threat title.

[newfie11]

2. Bernie2016!

[leftynyc]

4. A candidate that has to

explain why he hangs with holocaust deniers? We don't have one. If we did, I'd leave the party.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11829462/Jeremy-Corbyn-must-publicly-reject-Hamas-and-Hezbollah-leading-Jewish-group-demands.html

Since running for leader Mr Corbyn has had to distance himself from a series of anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers he shared a platform with during his years as a backbencher and anti-war campaigner.
Among the figures he has been linked with are Paul Eisen, a Holocaust denier, Raed Salah, who has been accused of “virulent anti-Semitism”, and the Muslim extremist Dyab Abou Jahjah.

[T_i_B]

5. Even Tony Blair thinks that Sanders is an apt comparison

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/29/tony-blair-labour-leadership-jeremy-corbyn