An LFI spokesperson said: "The ongoing abuse of Jewish party members – highlighted by July’s Panorama programme – and the failure of Jeremy Corbyn to do anything to deter his supporters from engaging in it, means that we have decided it would not be appropriate for us to have a stand at Labour party conference this year.
“Our staff have faced incidents of antisemitism in previous years and, given that the situation appears to have further deteriorated, we do not feel it is responsible as an employer to put them in this environment.”
In 2017, Al Jazeera, the Qatari backed TV channel, used undercover filming in an attempt to show LFI were part of a bid by the Israel government to interfere in British politics.
The documentary made the untrue claim that the then LFI chair Joan Ryan MP had been offered £1 million from the Israeli government. No such sum was ever actually paid.
Both LFI and the Jewish Labour Movement have been the target of false claims by pro-Corbyn supporters that they are acting as “Israel’s foot soldiers” in the UK.
