He added that one person who supported affiliating to JVL gave a speech that “was all about how he has been smeared by other Jews. Another speaker blamed those who had raised antisemitism during the summer as being to blame for the damage to the Labour Party.”
JVL has denied the scale of antisemitism within Labour. Its co-chair Jenny Manson has previously told the JC the claims were being exaggerated to smear the Labour leader.
She said of Labour antisemitism: "There might be very serious evidence. But I haven’t seen any of it.”
Another Jewish member of the party emailed the party's membership office after the meeting saying that she was resigning her membership in response to the vote to affiliate to JVL.
“I am utterly sickened by what the party has become”, she wrote.
“It is no longer my home and it is no longer somewhere I feel safe or comfortable as a Jew.”
Her email was shared on Twitter by Jewish actor Marlon Solomon, who said: "People who push for JVL to be affiliated to their CLPs are saying they want virtually all Jews out of the Labour Party."
