‘Corbyn is the only topic over dinner’

He added that, despite the importance of this election, it felt as if “the campaign isn’t even happening here. Friends have tried to contact Mr Pinto-Duschinsky to discuss the issues, but he doesn’t respond.”

“Labour haven’t got a hope round here but the Lib Dems are totally anonymous and don’t seem to be making any effort.

“Jeremy Corbyn is the only topic in shul and at Shabbos meals. People are genuinely scared. And there’s a Jewish candidate standing to put him into Number Ten — yet he won’t speak to us. He’s spending all his time canvassing in the less Jewish areas of the constituency, Burnt Oak and Colindale. It’s obvious why, but it sticks in the craw.”

But Mr Pinto-Duschinsky insisted that was not the case. “I am actually canvassing in Mill Hill today, twice,” he told the on Wednesday.

He added: “Labour needs to do better and should have done more, sooner, to tackle antisemitism. We need to do more to address the concerns of the community and I’ll continue to fight for that. I welcome the Equalities and Human Rights commission involvement so that no stone is left unturned.”

Mr Pinto-Duschinsky said he had plans to canvass in all the Jewish areas in the constituency.

The would-be MP is hoping to do better than 2017, when his party won 24,006 votes with Mike Katz, who now chairs the Jewish Labour Movement, which has announced it will not campaign for nearly all the party’s candidates because of the antisemitism crisis.

Mr Pinto-Duschinsky said he was “happy to talk to any constituent on any subject”. He said he has met with “rabbis from across the community, visited a number of community organisations and institutions including JCoSS and Jewish Care”.

Mr Offord told the he did not have time for an interview but issued a statement, saying he thought antisemitism was top priority for voters.

“In this election it is on everybody’s lips,” he said. “People are aware that a vote for anyone but the Conservative

Party will

Matthew Offord hand power to Jeremy Corbyn by placing him in a position to form a rainbow alliance with the SNP and others.

“Some have said they will leave the country if this happens and the impact on the Hendon constituency would be devastating.”

At Mill Hill United Synagogue, which serves 1,800 Jewish families, Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet said antisemitism was the “single biggest issue” for the majority of congregants. Brexit might be “on the back of everyone’s mind,” he said, but Jew-hate was “front and centre”.

Rabbi Schochet added: “Our community is like any other part of the electorate. They care about a whole range of social issues and like anyone they will ask how a party is going to impact on their individual lives.” He added it was bad that the community had largely been reduced to having to worry about a single issue: “This is a young community. The social issues are real things that they care about but the antisemitism is a focus. You can’t escape it. It is everywhere you turn.” He said people would be torn about “what is best for them economically and what is best for them as Jews.”

Rabbi Schochet, who will not be hosting any hustings this year having previously hosted two, said he had “no doubt there would be people who think what Labour is offering young families might benefit them but people care about the danger the party is to the Jewish community.”

On the eve of the election, his shul is hosting a debate titled: “If Labour wins tonight do we need to leave?”

Alarmist? Not according to Rabbi Schochet, who will be arguing “absolutely not. I don’t think the Jewish community should be running away. It only emboldens the enemy.”

But he added it was noteworthy that so many of his members were “entertaining the thought”.

Hendon resident Matti Fruhman, 38, is one of those who can’t look past antisemitism. “I will be voting for Offord. I am an ABC [anyone but Corbyn] voter,” he said.