The JLC statement added: "It is important to remember that this isn’t a fight the community wants to have, it is one we have been forced into.
"We have engaged with the Labour leadership in good faith and set out a series of reasonable steps for them to take to reduce levels of antisemitism in the party.
“That was six months ago – not only have they failed to deliver on a single one of those steps, they have bunkered down. All the evidence points to the fact that the Labour leadership are either incapable or unwilling to change.”
Rabbi Rich spoke out after he attended the controversial event where Jenny Manson, vice-chair of Jewish Voice for Labour, appeared on stage with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell to promote her bid to become MP for Finchley and Golders Green earlier this month.
He later said he was subjected to “verbal abuse, being called a Kapo and a Nazi” by demonstrators outside.
