In 2011, four years before Mr Corbyn rapidly rose through Labour’s ranks, he endorsed a new edition of John A. Hobson’s 1902 book Imperialism: A Study, The Times reports. In his foreword, the Labour Leader said the work was a “great tome” and praised Mr Hobson’s “brilliant, and very controversial at the time,” analysis of the “pressures” behind western, and in particular British, imperialism at the turn of the 20th century. But in the book, considered deeply anti-Semitic, Hobson claimed Europe was controlled by a “peculiar race” - Jews - and blatantly acknowledged the anti-Semitic Rothschild conspiracy theory.
The Rothschild conspiracy can be traced to an 1846 pamphlet which claimed that the Rothschild family made their wealth on “impoverishment and disasters”.
From then on vast conspiracies evolved, such as that the family engineered the succession of 19th century French monarchs and even funded the Holocaust.
In his book, Mr Hobson, an infamous English economist and critic of imperialism, theorised that imperialism was the policy of great European finance houses controlled by Jews, who invested abroad due to insufficient home demand.
The finance houses then went on to control the press and manipulate public opinion.
Jeremy Corbyn wrote the foreword to a deeply anti-Semitic book (Image: Getty)
Mr Hobson claimed “great financial houses” have “control which they exercise over the body of public opinion through the press”.
He went on: “Does anyone seriously
