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Senior rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger urges Jews to leave Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party

'I think there’s a point where you’re not winning, where you have to say forgive me and leave'

June 22, 2018 13:55
Rabbi Julia Neuberger
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A peer and Rabbi has urged Jews quit the Labour Party in protest over its antisemitism crisis.

Speaking at a Bank of England seminar, crossbench peer Baroness Julia Neuberger said she hoped allegations of Jew hate within the party would prove "enough of a problem that it’ll stop them getting elected".

She singled out Jeremy Corbyn's apparent opposition, before he became party leader, to the removal of an east London mural that was branded antisemitic.

Baroness Neuberger said it depicted "caricatures of apparently Jewish capitalists, Jewish bankers.. with hooked noses.. all of that. Essentially grinding the faces of the poor", adding it resembled a cartoon in Nazi publication Der Stürmer.