Corbyn’s party ‘has emboldened anti-semites’

JEREMY CORBYN’S Labour Party is partly to blame for a rise in anti-semitic attacks in the UK, a report has said.

The Kantor Centre, based at Tel Aviv University, said that the “unprecedented publicity regarding controversies about alleged and actual anti-semitism in the Labour Party” is likely to have “emboldened offenders”.

There was a three per cent rise in anti-semitic incidents of all types recorded by the Community Security Trust (CST), from 1,346 to 1,382. While abuse on social media fell by 15 per cent, the number of assaults recorded by the CST rose by 34 per cent to 145.

Alongside hard-right anti-semitic activity, there has also been a “rise in Leftist anti-semitism”, which “supports radical Muslim anti-israeli attitudes expressed in anti-semitic terms such as in the BDS and Antifa movements, and certainly in the UK Labour party led by Jeremy Corbyn,” it said.

The report added that British Jews were “losing their traditional political home, because of the change the Labour party has undergone”.

Yesterday, the Israeli Labor Party said it was suspending ties with Mr Corbyn because of the “hostility” he had shown to the Jewish community and the “anti-semitic statements and actions” allowed during his time as Labour leader. Avi Gabbay, the Israeli Labor leader, said the suspension was temporary and only applied to relations with Mr Corbyn’s office, not with the entire British Labour party.

A Labour spokesman said: “Jeremy Corbyn has said we must eliminate anti-semitism in the Party and has asked Jennie Formby, Labour’s new general secretary, to make this her number one priority.”