Conspiracy note on JLM circulated

A SENIOR officer in the Hampstead and Kilburn Labour Party has condemned a “highly offensive” document circulated at an executive committee meeting which asked why the Jewish Labour Movement “seems to focus only on antisemitism in the Labour party”.

Rebecca Shirazi, the vice-chair and campaigns officer for Hampstead and Kilburn Labour, described the document, titled “critical questions for the JLM”, as “not represent[ing] the view of our membership and was not part of the official literature”, adding that it “should never have been circulated”.

The two-page leaflet asked why the JLM decided not to campaign for Lisa Forbes, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Peterborough, while failing to mention that Ms Forbes had been found to have endorsed a social media post claiming that Theresa May had a “Zionist slave master’s agenda” and approved another message stating that Isis had been created by the CIA and Mossad.

The leaflet also claimed that the undercover Al Jazeera documentary, The Lobby, had “revealed that leading members of the JLM were working with an Israeli agent”.