The poster for a recent Jewdas event. Image: Jewdas.org
By now, it is very possible you have heard of Jewdas. In the last 48 hours, this community of mostly left-wing, non and anti Zionist Jews based in the UK has gone from being a medium-sized network of friends to the talk of the hour. Previously celebrated for its use of humour and playful feather-ruffling by some while being dismissed as a minor inconvenience at best by others, everything changed when Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn joined the group for a Passover Seder on Monday evening.
Against the backdrop of a vicious debate about anti-semitism in the Labour party, news publications including the BBC, Sky News, the Daily Mail, the New York Times and the Israeli Haaretz have all clamoured to define Jewdas. It’s hard to express in words just how surreal it was to write this sentence.
