The leftist ruling body of Britain’s Labour Party has voted not to adopt the international definition of anti-Semitism in its code of conduct, bringing relations between the Jewish community and the party to a new low since socialist Jeremy Corbyn became leader.
Counter-terror police are leading an investigation into a number of anti-Muslim letters sent to people around the UK, after the international media widely reported the “malicious communications”.
A Labour Parliamentary candidate has been shouted down with anti-Semitic abuse at a public hustling in Bradford.
A Muslim Labour party candidate, standing in Bradford West, has been condemned for agreeing to attend a campaign event allegedly excluding non-Muslim and male candidates.
A Labour MP has said a long-awaited government inquiry into Britain’s sharia courts is ‘Islamophobic’ and should be dropped, proposing the religious legal system should be offered state ‘support’.
Jewish Labour MPs have reacted angrily to claims that allegations of anti-Semitism in the party are “exaggerated” and have been selectively “weaponised” in an attempt to undermine leader Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.
A claim that a traditional Hebrew greeting for Passover was removed from a message by UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn because of the fear it might look “Zionist” has been rejected by the party.
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rejected an invitation from Labour’s sister party in Israel to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, citing a busy schedule for the snub.
