Corbyn's leadership has coincided in a frightening rise in antisemitic attacks in the UK. These include desecration of Jewish graves and places of worship, as well as attacks in person.
I don't speak for every Jewish person, but many of those I know have asked themselves a question which we never thought we would ask: where would we go if it was no longer safe to remain here? This is a British minority community who has lived here for generations and who now has started to feel seriously unsafe. It is a horrible, nauseating feeling.
The values of the person in power sets the tone for the country, as we've seen in Trump's America. UK synagogues rarely have visible signage and are patrolled by police on festivals. I rarely volunteer the information that I am Jewish irl. I was so sad on the day I realised that my sons were removing their kippot (skull caps) when walking home through our high street. They had picked up on the menace without my mentioning it.
Yes, there is nasty bigotry in the Tory party and elsewhere, however I feel the specific problems with Corbyn are (a) antisemitic acts, not just words, such as laying wreaths of the graves of Jew-murdering terrorists, and (b) allowing racists to feel welcome in his party whilst hounding out Jewish MPs.
I don't believe that can be said for the other mainstream parties, but even if it could, it wouldn't make it any better.
I also notice that much of the Corbyn issues relate to Jew-hatred, with no reference to Israel, so I am surprised to see Israel and Palestine mentioned so much on this thread. Corbyn is entitled to be pro Palestine if he wishes but that wouldn't explain his other troubling words and actions.
Jews are a tiny minority in Britain, so there is barely a single constituency where they are electorally significant. Amongst all the issues that this country faces, I wonder how far up the agenda racism comes?