Jeremy Corbyn refuses 4 times to apologise for failure to tackle anti-Semitism in brutal car-crash Andrew Neil grilling

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UNDER-FIRE Jeremy Corbyn refused FOUR times to apologise for his failure to tackle anti-Semitism tonight in a brutal car-crash interview.

The Labour boss was ripped apart by BBC political rottweiler Andrew Neil for his woeful record on kicking Jew haters out of his party, hours after the Chief Rabbi launched a devastating attack on his leadership, plunging his campaign into further chaos.

Jeremy Corbyn was grilled by Andrew Neil tonight on the BBC
BBC veteran Andrew Neil gave him a thorough interview

The leftie leader refused at least four times to say sorry in the excruciating 30-minute interview, and repeatedly tried to dodge questions on whether he’d done enough to tackle anti-Jew hate.

Mr Neil repeatedly demanded that he apologise, but a tetchy Mr Corbyn repeatedly tried to dodge it and talk about other forms of racism instead.

“Wouldnt you like to take this opportunity tonight to apologise to the British Jewish community for whats happened?” he asked.

“So, no apology?

“No apology for how you’ve handled this?

“I’ll try one more time… no apology?”

The BBC veteran said that viewers would “make up their own minds” on whether he had done enough to tackle such hatred.

Mr Corbyn insisted that “racism in our society is a total poison, be it Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, or any other form of racism”.

“That is what my whole life has been about,” he snapped back.

Elsewhere in the damning interview:

  • He refused repeatedly times to say whether it was anti-Semitic to say that “Rothschild Zionists run Israel” – as a Labour member did but was not suspended
  • Mr Corbyn defended staying neutral in the Brexit referendum – saying it would make him an “honest broker”
  • He was pressed to admit that ordinary married Brits on low incomes would face extra taxes under his government
  • And he was grilled on where “Corbyn’s credit card has a limit” with his 83billion fantasy borrowing promise
  • The leftie boss couldn’t get out of the interview quick enough, tearing off his mic and setting it on the floor within seconds of it finishing

SITTING ON THE FENCE

Mr Neil tried to push Mr Corbyn on why he was staying on the fence on the “greatest peacetime issue that’s faced this country for 70 years”, but he again didn’t have an answer.

“I will be the honest broker that will make sure that the referendum is fair and make sure that the leave deal is a credible one and the remain option is alongside it,” he claimed.

Mr Corbyns BBC interview was so torrid that Corbynistas received texts urging them to flood social media to drown it out on social media.

It read: Jeremy has pre-recorded the Andrew Neil interview already and apparently its truly horrific. Like awful.

Ten mins purely on AS [anti-Semitism]. JC refused to apologise to the Rabbi so its going to be brutal.

It urged his supporters to push Labours policies to hand more cash to the NHS and Sure Start centres instead to flood Twitter with positive messages.

Piers Morgan said the interview was “brilliant” and Andrew Neil “absolutely skewered” the Labour boss.

“No wonder Corbyn ducks most tough interviewers – he has no answers to tough questions,” he said.

Former Labour MP Mike Gapes blasted: “Corbyn does not apologise. Period. In his eyes he is never wrong.

“He cannot admit error. He is incapable of apology. Particularly to the Jewish community. He is unfit to be Leader of the Labour Party. He must never be Prime Minister of our country.”

And former Labour minister Chris Leslie blasted: “What a tragedy for the whole country that the once-great Labour Party has ended up in this state. Those of us who took a stand tried to prevent this very situation.
“Such a shame that those who stayed never actually had the fight to do anything about it.”

Jeremy Corbyn has been attacked for failing to tackle anti-Semitism in his own ranks
Two candidates Corbyn appeared on stage with were accused of anti-Semitism themselves

It came as Mr Corbyn said earlier today that anti-Semitism was vile and wrong, but astonishingly went on to appear to accuse the Chief Rabbi of failing to engage with Labour.

And he sparked fresh controversy by being flanked on stage at the event by Claudia Webbe and Apsana Begum – election candidates embroiled in anti-Semitism rows.

The hard-left boss also boasted that he had spent his entire life tackling racism in any form. He brazenly claimed that Labour had done more to crack down on racism under his leadership than before.

Mr Corbyns election campaign was rocked today after Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said most British Jews are gripped by anxiety by the ideas of a Corbyn government.

In an unprecedented intervention in an election, he said voters must examine their consciences when deciding how to vote on December 12.

Mr Ephraim was subjected to vile online abuse after daring to speak out with one troll branding him a sewer rat.

Mr Corbyn desperately tried to fend off the onslaught of attacks on his failure to tackle anti-Semitism at today’s anti-racism manifesto launch.

But the event in Tottenham, north London, descended into farce as he was mobbed outside by Jewish protesters who furiously accused him of being a racist.

He was 50 minutes late to the stage and had to be bundled in via the back entrance amid the angry scenes.

But on stage he enraged his critics by failing to directly acknowledge the Chief Rabbis blistering criticism in his speech.

He said: I have to say, I just want to make this very clear – anti-Semitism in any form is vile and wrong.

It is an evil within our society, it is an evil that grew in Europe in the 1920s and onwards and ultimately led to the Holocaust.

There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern Britain, and under a Labour government it will not be tolerated in any form
whatsoever. I want to make that clear.

NO APOLOGY

Challenged directly on his record of tackling vile anti-Jew hate in his own party, he astonishingly failed to apologise.

He said: There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in our society, our country or in my party and there never will be.

The party has adopted processes that didnt exist before, it has a disciplinary process that didnt exist before.

And, where people have committed anti-Semitic acts, they are brought to book and, if necessary, expelled from the party or suspended or asked to be educated better about it.

He added: I invite the Chief Rabbi, I invite the Archbishop of Canterbury, I invite all the other faith leaders to come, talk to us about what their concerns are.

But be absolutely clear of this assurance from me – no community will be at risk because of their identity, their faith, their ethnicity or their language.

But Mr Corbyn was hit by a fresh tidal wave of criticism about his record.

Crossbench peer and Rabbi Julia Neuberger blasted: A political party where some of its members leave because of anti-Semitic taunting, which still cannot deal with it, makes people feel
very uncomfortable.

While the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Hindu Council and Muslim Council of Britain all issued statements in support of the Chief Rabbi.

Labour peer Lord Falconer briefly Labours anti-Semitism adviser savaged Mr Corbyns failure and said there could be thousands of cases that need investigating.

He stormed: We deserved an attack that strong, we need to deal with anti-Semitism properly.

We are not dealing with the cases within the party.

‘ASHAMED OF MY PARTY’

Labour MP Wes Streeting said he is ashamed of my party.

He said: I am an anti-racist and one of the reasons I am standing for re-election is to fight racism within my party. I am more sorry than words can say.

Labour has been dogged by anti-Semitism ever since Mr Corbyn became leader.

Jewish politicians Luciana Berger and Dame Louise Ellman have been hounded out of the party by anti-Semitic bullying,

And the Equality and Human Rights Commission are investigating Labour over claims it is institutionally racist against Jews.

The BNP is the only other British party to have faced a similar investigation.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell – Mr Corbyns righthand man – accused the Chief Rabbi of misunderstanding labour.

He said the party are tackling anti-Semitism.

He added: I dont think he understood the nature of what weve been doing and how weve been dealing with it.

We would welcome a conversation to explain that to him.