The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council have confirmed they will not attend a second “round table” meeting with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn next week – and have called on “other communal organisations to follow our lead”.
In a statement released this morning, after the JC’s exclusive story last night revealing Mr Corbyn had invited Jewish groups including Jewish Voice for Labour to a session next Wednesday, the Board and JLC said the meeting had no “agenda for action” on how to tackle the party’s on-going antisemitism crisis.
The two organisations said they already had a meeting with Mr Corbyn and new Labour general secretary Jennie Formby organised for next Tuesday.
“After we have had our meeting with Mr Corbyn on April 24, we will see whether he and the Labour Party have committed to the action we need against antisemitism,” it added.
