Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared a campaign video made by Britain’s Labour Party on Thursday, the day of the British election. “The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives,” she wrote. “The only way we change is with a massive surge of new voters at the polls. UK, Vote!”…
A Jewish candidate for Britain’s Labour Party said she is being bombarded with death threats and that nearly half of them are anti-Semitic. Ruth Smeeth told the local news website StokeonTrentLive that she is afraid to leave her home due to the constant threats. When she does leave, she carries a panic button in case…
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn said his Labour Party must recognize that anti-Jewish bigotry has become part of the movement and drive out anti-Semitism. “The evidence is clear enough. The worst cases of anti-Semitism in our party have included Holocaust denial, crude Jewish-banker stereotypes, conspiracy theories blaming Israel for 9/11 or every war on the Rothschild…
(JTA) — Amid growing external pressure on Labour over its Anti-Semitism problem, more than a third of the British party’s upper house lawmakers signed an ad criticizing their leader, Jeremy Corbyn. “The Labour Party welcomes everyone* irrespective of race, creed, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. (*except, it seems, Jews),” reads the ad published Wednesday…
(JTA) — British Jews protested the election to Parliament of a candidate for the Labour party who “liked”a Facebook post saying Prime Minister Theresa May has a “Zionist Slave Masters agenda.” Lisa Forbes on Thursday won a special election in the eastern English city of Peterborough, defeating a Brexit Party candidate and leaving the Conservative…
(JTA) — A senior lawmaker for Britain’s Labour Party who was facing sexual harassment allegations has quit the party, citing its anti-Semitism problem. Ivan Lewis , who is Jewish, resigned on Thursday from Labour, where he had served as chief whip — a post whose duties include enforcing coalition discipline in votes in the House…
(JTA) — A British Labour politician supportive of party leader Jeremy Corbyn questioned the need for bolstered security for Jewish communities, saying some of the threat may be “in their own heads.” Jenny Rathbone, who is a lawmaker in the regional National Assembly for Wales, made the statement last year, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday after…
Update 1:30 p.m. A local chapter of the British Labour Party voted against a resolution condemning last week’s massacre at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, with leaders reportedly saying that there was too much focus on “anti-Semitism this, anti-Semitism that.” Steve Cooke, the secretary of the Norton West party group in England’s County Durham, wrote on…
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