LONDON (JTA) — The Labour Party failed to mention Jews in an elections campaign video that champions diversity and the rights of over 20 groups.
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The 68-second video released this week features images of British people, towns and cities, along with a September speech by Dawn Butler, who holds the party’s Women and Equalities portfolio.
Butler lists various population groups, including people who are LGBT+, straight, Roma, black, white, Asian, disabled, “struggling to pay rent” or “wear a hijab, turban, a cross.” She assures that “a Labour government will value you, just be your true authentic self.”
While Jews make up 0.37 percent of the United Kingdom’s population, leaders of major Jewish groups suggested the omission was not connected to the minority’s limited electoral strength.
Rather, they say, it is linked to the anti-Semitism problem in Labour’s ranks following the 2015 election of Jeremy Corbyn as its leader. Corbyn, a far-left politician, has supported boycotting Israel and called Hamas and Hezbollah his friends.
Jewish Leadership Council Chairman Jonathan Goldstein told the Jewish Chronicle that the omission of Jews from the video was “extraordinary and chilling” and “shows they don’t regard the Jewish community or anti-Semitism as equal to other communities or racism of other types.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said that in the video, “The Jewish community is ‘erased’ as a minority group worthy of their support.”
Labour’s media team did not immediately reply to requests for comment from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
I believe that at this point Corbyn is cat calling to fellow antisemites to vote for him because he IS AN ANTI-SEMITE!
Corbyn is a sick bigot!
Where are ultra orthodox Israel hating Ma Yofis tantzers?? Busy with the 6th Hakafah. Soon you’ll be making maariv minyomin at the El Al gate in London. Hopefully, you’ll be able to leave with more than your gatches.
I do not like either of them. If I were British, I would vote Lib-Dem. Corbyn certainly is not fit for government.
Schumer,schiff. Engel,Nadler want the same here