Jeremy Corbyn
“Too many people in the Labour Party believed it was just a case of a few bad apples for far too long,” said former Labour Party MP Joan Ryan at the ADL’s “Never Is Now” summit. “By the time Labour became institutionally anti-Semitic, it was far too late to root out the Jew-haters.”
“Anti-Semitism is central to a wider debate about the kind of country we want to be,” it said. “To ignore it because Brexit looms larger is to declare that anti-Jewish prejudice is a price worth paying for a Labour government.”
“I am focused on British Jewry and the impact in our country,” said Yosef David, a social worker for a large Jewish charity.
“Putting oneself in the shoes of another person, or another group, can be difficult. But we believe it is important—and urgent—that you do that,” the paper said, citing a recent poll that found 87 percent of British Jews consider Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to be an anti-Semite.
In a troubling documentary, eight former Labour Party officials told the BBC that Corbyn’s team “interfered in the complaints process for incidents of alleged anti-Semitism, on some occasions processing them from his Westminster office.”
With 2,500 members, the movement has blamed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for enabling a “culture of anti-Semitism to emerge and fester” within the party.
“I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to serve as our prime minister,” said Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman.
It features Rob Abrams, a Jewish anti-Zionist activist who in May 2018 led the Kaddish prayer in Parliament Square for 62 Palestinians killed on the Israel-Gaza border, at least 50 of whom were Hamas operatives.
“Boycotts do nothing to bring about peace and are designed entirely to demonize Israel. This is another dark day in the history of the Labour Party,” said Labour Friends of Israel director Jennifer Gerber.
The Cairo Declaration calls for a boycott of Israel, accusing the Jewish state of perpetrating “apartheid” and robbing Palestinian land with the help of America’s “unlimited support to the Zionist perpetrators of genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people.”
He plans to discuss “British state and non-state actors” using “a variety of methods to suppress the democratic mobilizing of those working for progressive causes.”
John Mann, who had been a lawmaker since 2001, said that while he isn’t leaving the party, he will fight anti-Semitism in and outside Labour.
