Former Labour MP Ian Austin has delivered an emotional speech to the Aipac conference in the US, calling for "good fair-minded people of all political persuasions to come together to fight anti-Zionism and rampant antisemitism".
Speaking as the UK Trade Envoy to Israel, Mr Austin told the audience in Washington of the debt he owed to his family, and in particular his Holocaust survivor father Fred.
"It is because of him that I am here today," said Mr Austin, as he told how his father was "put on a train to England" from Czechoslovakia at age 10 while the rest of his family perished in the death camps.
The former Dudley North MP then said that, until last year, he had been a senior figure within Labour but he had "left the party and parliament to fight extremism, antisemitism and anti-Zionism."
