Pro-Corbyn activists hand out ‘anti-Semitic’ leaflets accusing Jewish Labour of making up racism crisis
HARD-LEFT Labour members said Jewish Labour had deliberately toppled Corbyn and suggested a global conspiracy, feeding into anti-Semitic tropes
JEWISH Labour activists suffered anti-Semitic abuse during the party's annual conference.
Moderate MP Wes Streeting accused hard-left pro-Corbyn activists of handing out leaflets before a Momentum event on Sunday that contained "classic anti-Semitic" material.
The leaflets accused the Jewish Labour Movement of using "the charge of anti-Semitism in the Labour party to attack the new movement called forth by the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell."
It also claimed the Jewish Labour Movement acted as "a representative of a foreign power, Israel" - and called for it to be ditched from the Labour party.
Mr Streeting, a critic of Mr Corbyn and chair of the all-party parliamentary group on British Jews, said the leaflets were "anti-Semitic and undeniably racist".
Mr Streeting told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "That last comment, 'acts as a representative of a foreign power', this isn't ambiguous. This is classic anti-Semitic trope, at our conference.
"In terms of some of the people we're talking about, and the problem that occurs, they're not going to listen to people like me.
"But they do place a lot of faith and stock in Jeremy.
"As someone who has a track record of tackling racism and discrimination, I think in the past year he's had a golden opportunity which he hasn't yet taken up to show real leadership on this, and help navigate through some of the problems we face in terms of anti-Semitism."
Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger said: "I'm frankly appalled by the comments I've learned have been made at an event just down the road from Labour Party conference, from the platform of an organisation which purports to be supporting the Labour Party.
"There are too many examples of where my Jewish parliamentary colleagues, where my Jewish council colleagues, where Jewish members have been attacked because they are Jewish.
"We need to stamp it out."
While the Labour Friends of Israel stool suffered three incidents of anti-Semitism on Sunday, with one Corbynista telling the group that Jews were behind a plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn.