British Jews still backing Labour despite hate, says John Mann, MP

He said: “The person is still a member, although that’s unfinished business.

“We don’t want that kind of thing, in society, on the left, in the Labour Party.”

The outspoken MP said he believed the drop in support for Labour among British Jews, especially since Jeremy Corbyn became leader, was not as steep as polls have suggested. He noted the surge in membership numbers for the JLM in the midst of the party’s antisemitism crisis — with figures showing more than 2,000 people have now joined the group.

Jeremy Newmark, national chair of the JLM, spoke of the “political and physical attacks on Jewish identity” which had taken place over the past year.

He paid tribute to Jewish Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Louise Ellman and Ruth Smeeth, all of whom faced sustained problems with antisemitic attacks this year.

Ms Berger, who is the parliamentary chair of the JLM, told guests: “It has been a difficult year for many 
of us – but I hope we can be positive about what comes next.”