A Passover video message released by Jeremy Corbyn showing him speaking with a young Jewish member of his party has been labelled “cynical”, by members of the Jewish community,

The video, published on Mr Corbyn’s social media accounts on Friday before the beginning of the festival, showed him discussing the meaning of Passover, and talking about the attack on a Synagogue in Pittsburgh last year and antisemitism within the Labour party.

However, the responses from members of the Jewish community on social media were overwhelmingly negative.

Dr David Hirsh, author of “Contemporary Left Antisemitism” and former party member, labelled the video “a cynical and bare faced attempt to whitewash Labour and its antisemitism problem”.

Dr Dave Rich, deputy communications director of the CST and author of “The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism”, called it “utterly cynical".

“How Corbyn can keep a straight face while condemning *other people* for making antisemitic comments in meetings and going off into conspiracy theories is beyond me,” Dr Rich tweeted.

Others pointed out that the woman in the video, Tania Shew, worked on both of Mr Corbyn’s leadership campaigns and previously appeared in a video for the leftwing Momentum group, where she declared herself a boycotter of Israeli goods.

Mr Corbyn’s video was released a few hours after a widely condemned misstep by Labour, which published a message wishing the Jewish community a Chag Sameach – with a graphic including a loaf of bread.

Bread is forbidden to Jews on Passover.

The graphic was later replaced with a version which removed the bread.

This was not the only Passover-message misstep.

Conservative candidate for the London Mayoralty, Shaun Bailey, published a graphic wishing Jews a happy Passover which had the Hebrew spelled back to front.

And eagle-eyed watchers noted that the Passover graphic published by Theresa May, which featured a seder plate, did not contain the shank bone, one of the traditional items on the seder plate, but used beetroot instead, which has been used by vegetarians in place of the bone for the last few decades.

In America, Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American Congresswoman known for her pro-BDS stance and calls to end US aid to Israel, was also criticised for a Passover graphic she released on social media which featured loaves of bread.