It is not the job of the JC to tell readers how to vote. For one thing, we credit our readers with more intelligence than to need guidance.
But there is a much bigger factor at work. In the past two years, we have led the scrutiny of Jeremy Corbyn over his affiliations and of the Labour Party over the antisemitism in its ranks.
Our poll this week shows that the Jewish community has drawn its own conclusions as to the party’s fitness for office under Mr Corbyn.
The collapse in Labour support among a historically supportive community needs little further explanation. Jeremy Corbyn’s most significant achievement in his relations with the Jewish community is to have made Labour toxic. This week’s revelation that in 2014 he laid a wreath at the grave of one of the Munich Olympic terrorists is, in that respect, simply par for the course.
