Two weeks ago, a screenshot of a 2012 Facebook post was disseminated by Labour MP Luciana Berger: party leader Jeremy Corbyn was responding to a post about a mural that was to be removed, questioning why the painting had been condemned. The mural showed Jewish bankers and businessmen counting money on a Monopoly board resting on the backs of the poor. Corbyn’s team said he had not looked closely at the image and was responding to the destruction of public art. Some believed him, some did not: the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council arranged a protest in Parliament Square in response.
04 April 2018, The Tablet
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