Labour Party faces fresh shame over anti-Semitism

BITTER divisions over antiSemitism in the Labour Party will be reopened by Ministers this week with official figures expected to show a rise in hate crimes against Jewish people.

In what Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters will perceive as a deliberate attempt to stoke rows within his party over the ‘racist’ behaviour of his supporters, the Government plans to release stand-alone figures for anti-Semitic offences for the first time.

The move follows a summer in which a future Labour government was said to pose an ‘existential threat’ to British Jews, while Mr Corbyn himself was branded a ‘racist and antiSemite’ by one of his own MPs.

Jewish safety group the Community Safety Trust recorded 727 anti-Semitic incidents in the first half of 2018, including 34 that made specific reference to Labour.

However, the figures to be published this week are expected to provide more detail on the scale of the problem.

The Mail on Sunday can also reveal a Corbyn supporter faces arrest after failing to appear in court last week to answer allegations he branded a senior Labour figure a ‘Jewish pig’ and ‘bloodsucker’.

Frid Milani, 69, of North-West London, is accused of telling Lord Levy, a key ally of former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, to ‘p*** off to Israel’ in an email on March 28.