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Jeremy Corbyn would be accused by political enemies of putting nurses and doctors out of work should he suddenly develop healing hands to cure the sick.

Walk on water, as some of the more frenzied apostles believe their JC messiah does, and he’d be reported as a hazard to shipping.

Or turn water into wine and an abstemious Labour leader preferring apple juice would be denounced for avoiding alcohol duty.

Corbyn’s no miracle worker – though he has experienced two resurrections.

First by coming back from the dead after a 2016 parliamentary coup, then again last year in ending Theresa May’s Tory majority.

Neither saint nor sinner, he’s a ­principled Left-winger who stirs immense hope in some, and considerable hate in others.

And like most Labour leaders I’ve known, he’s regularly demonised.

The venom is stinging in part because it’s contemporary – and admittedly the toxic anti-Semitism charge is a fresh development.

But recall ferocious personal and political onslaughts against Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband before Corbyn was roughed up.

The exception in the past 40-plus years is perhaps John Smith, who died before his foes got fully going. Travel deeper into history and the forged Zinoviev letter adds perspective.

That was an election dirty trick by Britain’s security services way back in 1924, to damage Labour PM Ramsay MacDonald and boost the Conservatives by inventing a Bolshevik conspiracy to ignite revolution.

I make the point not as an apologist for Corbyn’s wildest critics.

The egregious charge against Corbyn that he celebrated Palestinian terrorists is a noxious concoction of distortion and deceit.

No politician seeking to end conflict will achieve their goal without meeting and being photographed next to people with blood on their hands.

Unlike Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu, unfairly criticised Corbyn never ordered killings and invasions.

Every fabricated row sucks oxygen which could be breathed to talk about Labour’s plans for the economy,

pay, jobs, health, education, transport and crime.

Yet Labour is ahead in the polls and Corbyn will win – if he wins – by overcoming ferocious hostility from rivals in and out of the party. There’s nothing new in that.