Two deputies who have pushed for a no confidence vote against a Board vice president for criticising Israel’s controversial Nation State law are now themselves subject to a “motion of censure”.
The bid to force a vote against vice president Sheila Gewolb was brought in late August by Jacob Lyons, deputy for Western Marble Arch Synagogue, and seconded by Martin Rankoff, who represents Redbridge Synagogue.
Mr Lyons argues that Dr Gewolb breached the IHRA definition of antisemitism in saying that “some of the measures” in the Nation State law were “regressive steps”.
He claimed her comments “[applies] double standards to Israel by requiring of it a behaviour not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”
