WATCH – In 2017, praising minority community media, @JeremyCorbyn engages in antisemitic tropes saying that Jewish newspapers in 18th/19th/early 20th century helped keep the UK Jewish community “powerful” and “in a position to influence the politics of the environment they’re in”
This was a strange form of praise that he didn’t apply to any other minority community in his comments.
Corbyn rightly says that community newspapers help keep minority communities together & maintain their culture. He name-checks Jewish, Irish, African, Asian and Caribbean communities but the Jewish community is the *only* one he says has power and influence through its media.
The antisemitic stereotype that Jews are disproportionately powerful and influential sometimes gets mistaken as praise. Kevin Myers lost his job at the Sunday Times for doing just that
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Some leading Jews had influence in 19th/early 20th century Britain but most of the community was poor and marginalised. Where did Corbyn get the idea that Jews were so powerful and influential in that period?
Maybe it was the book he praised in 2011 that claimed European finance was controlled by “men of a single and peculiar race” & no “great war” could occur if “the House of Rothschild” did not want it to.
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Whether Corbyn meant to invoke these stereotypes or not, he will be regretting whatever power and influence Jewish newspapers wield today given the @JewishChron's recent front page. 
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