[hibeejim21]

The world is full of "offended" people looking for something to complain about.

For those who think that the image would have been fine if only the evil, shadowy, puppet-master bankers had looked a bit less Jewish... well, perhaps consider that there's a reason why they were depicted that way to begin with, and it wasn't done by accident.  In the same way that Farage and his chums, when making an anti-immigration poster, will always depict a horde of brown-skinned immigrants rather than white-skinned ones; they know *exactly* what they're doing from the word go, and are smirking behind their hand whenever anyone elects to make excuses on their behalf.

No one was making excuses for him, i was merely pointing out he could have kept his critique of capitalism and the elite without resorting to anti semitism. His explanations afterwards showed he was out of order.

Maybe I'm not very well attuned to these things but i'm going to give corbyn the benefit of the doubt on this one. He's ceded on the mural being anti semitic and expressed regret he didn't examine it more closely, i kind of feel the same way. Plus Its becoming clear now that a lot of people attacking him on anti-semitism are are more interested in causing political damage to his leadership than approaching what is a pretty serious subject indeed.