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Corbyn invites chief rabbi to talks after withering attack on him

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Published: 29 November 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Ephraim Mirvis says Labour has a ‘poison sanctioned from the top’; Corbyn declines to apologise to Jews, Lipstadt says anti-Semitism a cornerstone of Labour stance

Jeremy Corbyn asks Chief Rabbi and Archbishop to talk to him about their anti-Semitism ‘concerns’ (Jewish Chronicle)
Labour leader reels from chief rabbi's dramatic intervention in his party's Jew-hate crisis

The real reason Corbyn's 'anti-racist' Labour just can’t deal with anti-Semitism (Haaretz)
DAVID FELDMAN: Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, and the left more generally, can’t address its anti-Semitism problem by ejecting 'a few bad apples.' This is why

Letter from London: What I said to Jeremy Corbyn when i saw him on the train (Forward)

DEBORAH LIPSTADT: Anti-Semitism is not a sidebar. It is a cornerstone of Labour's public stance (Jewish Chronicle)
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt reacts after Sir Richard Evans, the lead witness in her defence against David Irving, said he would vote for Jeremy Corbyn's party

Jeremy Corbyn’s meeting with an official from the PFLP-GC signalled his rejection of two states (Jewish Chronicle)
COLIN SHINDLER: The fact the future Labour leader met representatives of Palestinian rejectionist factions is further evidence of his fundamentalism on the issue

Jeremy Corbyn declines to apologise to Jews over Labour anti-Semitism (Times of Israel)
Pressed in BBC interview six times, British opposition leader won’t express regret, says he is ‘determined that our society is safe for people of all faiths’

Israel could halt intelligence cooperation with UK if Jeremy Corbyn wins election, Benjamin Netanyahu suggests

Photo: Jeremy Corbyn speaks during the launch of the party race and faith manifesto, in London, on November 26 (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)
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