Jewish leaders’ ‘disgust’ at Corbyn

PROMINENT Jewish community figures have expressed “disgust” at former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s response to a report into allegations of anti-semitism in the party by a human rights watchdog.

The comments came after Jewish leaders met with Mr Corbyn’s successor as Labour chief, Sir Keir Starmer.

The discussions were in the wake of a scathing probe into Labour by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

Sir Keir suspended Mr Corbyn from the party because of his predecessor’s public comments on the EHRC report.

Sir Keir met with Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Jonathan Goldstein, chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, Mark Gardner, chief executive of the Community Security Trust, and Mike Katz, chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement.

In a joint statement after the meeting, the Jewish community leaders said they thanked Sir Keir and Labour for their “firm and constructive response” to the “damning verdict”.

They said: “We expressed our disgust that his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn had responded by diminishing and dismissing the legal findings of the report.”