The deputy leader of the British Labour Party, Angela Rayner, has threatened that thousands of members could be expelled from the party an effort to purge anti-Semitism from their ranks. On Sunday, Mrs Rayner told members of the party that
Jewish groups in the UK on Thursday lauded the “damning verdict” surrounding Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party after a government watchdog found it had broken equality law.
Seventy current and ex-Labour staffers have given testimony to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party.
Outspoken veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge said she is “disappointed” to be facing a party reselection contest in her east London constituency.
A Labour MP has been forced to apologize after he sparked fury by wrongly claiming a video showed Israeli soldiers attacking two children.
Senior Jewish figures have criticised far-left Jeremy Corbyn’s response to Labour’s anti-Semitism problem, where he failed to apologise or admit his own role in the crisis, calling it “meaningless”.
LONDON (AP) — The president of one of the U.K.’s main Jewish groups called Thursday on the leader of the Labour Party to make an “abject apology” to British Jews for allowing anti-Semitism to fester in the left-of-center opposition party.
Jeremy Corbyn hosted a protest event in Parliament, promoted as “Auschwitz to Gaza” comparing the Jewish state to Nazis, on Holocaust Memorial Day when Britons remember those killed by Nazis and in other genocides.
Another day, another round of infighting over claims of rampant anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry in the left-wing UK Labour Party.
The UK Labour Party’s inability to engage with its own Jewish membership has again been thrown into the open as a party affiliate threatens to sue it over a new, softer definition of anti-Semitism.
The UK Labour Party must “root out anti-Semitism completely, totally” former party leader and prime minister Tony Blair has warned.
