Eli Lake, Columnist

Jeremy Corbyn’s Warped Worldview

His hostility toward Israel is but a symptom of his antagonism toward the liberal democratic order.

August 27, 2018 at 6:00 AM UTC

Corrected

August 27, 2018 at 8:05 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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This is the summer Jeremy Corbyn’s issues with Jews finally caught up with him.

Recent stories in the British press highlight a pattern in the recent past of the leader of Britain’s Labour Party. Here he is in 2012 defending a mural that caricatures Jews as money-grubbing and racist. Here he is in 2013 complaining about the failure of British Zionists to understand irony at a conference promoted by Hamas. Here he is in 2014 laying a wreath at the Tunisian memorial to one of the terrorists responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.