Saturday’s election of far-Left candidate Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the British Labour Party — succeeding Ed Miliband — has U.K. Jews worried about the repercussions for their community and their country’s relationship with Israel.

It is not merely Corbyn’s sympathy for “father of communism” Karl Marx that has put a majority of the country’s estimated 290,000 Jews on edge. According to a Jewish Chronicle poll conducted during the election campaign, more than 80 percent of Jews said they were concerned about Corbyn’s anti-Israel positions and affiliations with antisemites.

With ties to Holocaust deniers and terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah – whom he referred to as “friends” – Corbyn has been alienating and angering the Jewish establishment, which has traditionally voted Labour. A recent interview with Iran’s Press TV, during which Corbyn called the assassination of Osama bin Laden a “tragedy,” only served to strengthen this ill ease.

Still, Jewish groups have been relatively quiet since Corbyn’s landslide victory, which emerged just before the beginning of the high holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.... Read More: Algemeiner