Jeremy Corbyn rejects antisemitism claim over book foreword
Corbyn, who wrote foreword to work first published in 1902, ‘completely rejects antisemitic elements’ of book, Labour says
Jeremy Corbyn has rejected faces fresh claims of antisemitism after it was revealed that he wrote the foreword for a book that argued Europe’s banks and press were controlled by Jewish people.
Campaigners condemned the action but the party said Corbyn, who wrote the introduction four years before he became party leader, “completely rejects the antisemitic elements” of the author’s analysis.