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.
The West London Synagogue rabbi praised Lord Mitchell, who resigned from Labour in September 2016, saying he “was absolutely right to do so".
“Others are saying they’re in there and staying to fight it. I understand that, but at the moment they’re not winning. I think there’s a point where you’re not winning where you have to say 'forgive me' and leave,” she said.
She added she hoped the antisemitism row would stop Labour getting elected.
“It certainly stopped them in some local authorities,” she said.
Baroness Neuberger, whose mother came to Britain as a refugee from the Nazis, said there was still a future for Jews in Britain, despite Labour's problem with antisemitism.
Watch Baroness Neuberger speak at the Bank of England's One Bank Flagship seminar here.
