jewish leader calls for Jeremy Corbyn to be sacrificed

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Former Board of Deputies President Calls for Corbyn Assassination
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2019/07/21/former-board-of-deputies-president-calls-for-corbyn-assassination/

https://twitter.com/wrightismight/status/1133369260800188416

Last May, in an incident barely reported in the British media, Dr. Lionel Kopelowitz, former president of the UK Board of Deputies, called for the assassination of Jeremy Corbyn. To be specific, Kopelowitz, who fancies himself a linguist of sorts, noted that the name "Corbyn" sounds like the Hebrew word korban (which has a number of meanings–among them "animal sacrifice" or "victim of crime" or "murder"). In the days of the Temple, the animals sacrificed were called korban. In more modern terms, the victims of the Holocaust are called korban. The word is generally associated with violence or killing, usually in pursuit of a "higher" cause. In Kopelowitz's case, that seems to be ridding British Jews of the scourge of Jeremy Corbyn.

During his public Board of Deputies presentation, the current president warned him that his remarks were being "live-streamed." Not that his remarks were objectionable. Not a word of criticism.

It's remarkable that the UK Israel Lobby takes umbrage at the so-called anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and calls it a threat to all Jews (when it isn't). Yet when a senior leader of that community calls for Jeremy Corbyn's death, there isn't a word of remorse. As The Canary noted in its report, when contacted for comment the Board of Deputies did not respond.

Later, the good doctor did apologize and 'clarify' that his words didn't really reflect what he actually said:

He since apologised for his "clumsy rhetoric", adding that he did not mean to suggest carrying out a physical attack on Corbyn.

"I deplore political violence and I am sorry that I phrased this so inelegantly," Kopelowitz said. "I have been saddened and concerned to see increasing physical attacks on politicians, including Corbyn.

"I would hate for my own clumsy rhetoric to be erroneously understood as any sort of vindication of this alarming trend."

"While [...] I believe that Corbyn's departure from his post would be in the best interests of Jews, anti-racists, the country and the Labour Party, I would want this to be by strictly democratic means."

He added: "We need to protect our precious democracy and mediate our disagreements through civil means."

Apparently, calling for the death of the leader of a British political party is "inelegant" and "clumsy." But not criminal and not an incitement to political violence. It's also deplorable that Kopelowitz was a physician in his professional life. The notion that a doctor of the "healing arts" would say such a thing is unfathomable.