From the Jewish Chronicle:
There is growing unrest within Jeremy Corbyn's campaign team over his approach to dealing with issues of concern to the Jewish community, the JC can reveal.
One well-placed source within his team said that the unwillingness to deal "head-on" with these issues had come from Mr Corbyn himself.
The reluctance, according to the source, was because the frontrunner in the Labour leadership campaign was "partly casual about Jewish concerns, partly [because he knows] hostility to 'Zionist neocons' plays well to his constituency".
Media interest in Mr Corbyn's association with Holocaust deniers, antisemites and other extreme figures has grown in the past three weeks since the JC posed a series of questions for him to answer.
Another senior Corbyn campaign member indicated this week that the issues raised by this newspaper were not being taken seriously by Mr Corbyn and his team and said some within the team have grown concerned at the Islington North MP's reluctance to speak in more depth publicly about the Jewish community's concerns.
"This comes from Corbyn himself," the source said.
(After Eliot's Macavity the Mystery Cat)
Our Jeremy's an activist, he is the brand new hope,
As he pushes Labour to the edge of a slippery slope,
He is the Blairites' nemesis, the Moderates' despair
But when you try and pin him down, Our Jeremy's not there.
Our Jeremy, Our Jeremy, opposer of austerity,
His rivals are so timid, and he's full of temerity,
But when his friends say, Stone the Gays, he doesn't really care
He suddenly goes deaf and dumb, no Jeremy's not there,
Islamist mates say “Holohoax”, and he's not au contraire,
They're anti Israel, that's enough, and Jeremy's not there.
Our Jeremy's not besuited, no he's not poshly dressed,
His shirt lies open for us to see the collar of his vest,
He is the man of Islington, and when he's holding forth,
His is the stripped pine wisdom that pours from London North,
His world view's very simple, all wars are Nato's fault,
And as for intervention – no, he will call a halt.
Our Jeremy, our Jeremy, there's no one quite like Jeremy,
His followers worship him, yea, amen and verily,
You can see him on a podium, cursing Tony Blair,
But getting a straight answer – our Jeremy's not there.
He doesn't live it large at all, politicking is his life,
He doesn't go out giggng, or dining with his wife,
His idea of an evening off or joyous holiday,
Is standing at a rally, to damn the USA,
His mother marched down Cable Street, so he boasts with pride,
But he won't detect a Fascist if a Fascist's on his side,
At shirts of black and swastikas, his rants will fill the air,
But put them in a keffiyeh, and Jeremy's not there.
Our Jeremy, Our Jeremy, aghastness from posterity,
That eager young politicos were dazzled by sincerity,
His beard is prophetic white, his frame ascetic spare,
But query his alliances, Our Jeremy's not there.
And they say that all the Andies, Lizzes and Yvettes,
Will be cordoned in a hollow square and stripped of red rosettes,
And the old team of door knockers will be promptly chucked
And social democracy is well and truly fucked.
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