© Han Yan XinhuaGrassroots support and electoral success have bolstered Jeremy Corbyn's position as Labour Party leader. But Britain's Israel lobby is not going away quietly.
Having previously
attempted to remove
Jeremy Corbyn as party leader at all costs, Labour's internal Israel lobby is now changing its strategy.
The shift in the UK's political terrain since June's general election has left Corbyn firmly in charge of the main opposition party's leadership.
With another general election likely before the end of the Conservative government's five-year term, Corbyn's right-wing Labour enemies have resigned themselves to the reality of a socialist leader.
For Israel lobby groups like
Labour Friends of Israel and the
Jewish Labour Movement, this means ending the all-out assault on Corbyn and instead trying to "moderate" his positions on Palestine and the Israeli occupation.
Since Corbyn became Labour leader, the party has faced an
almost entirely fabricated media campaign to portray it as rife with anti-Semitism.
Despite an inquiry by respected human rights lawyer Shami Chrakrabarti finding in June last year that the party was "not overrun by anti-Semitism," mainstream media have continued to promote this false narrative.
Comment: Even though he lacks any credibility, the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, maintains that it is "70 to 90 percent" accurate: This guy is delusional.