In his Daily Telegraph article on which you report (Chief rabbi: Labour has severe problem with antisemitism,theguardian.com, 4 May), and Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said the antisemitism crisis engulfing Labour had lifted the lid” on bigotry.
He joins in the sensationalist allegations of antisemitism in the Labour party,where the headlines decibel level is in inverse proportion to the evidence supporting them. Ignoring the more serious anti-Muslim racism in electoral politics, Rabbi Mirvis attacks the Labour party by launching a defence of Zionism which turns it from a political ideology (that can be supported or opposed) into a religion that is beyond question. We British Jews reject this categorically.
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Source: theguardian.com