'Labour leadership is antisemitic', claims senior Israeli minister

Elements of the Labour Party leadership in Britain are antisemitic, a senior Israeli minister has claimed.

Gilad Erdan, Israel’s public security minister, said there were concerns among his country’s government about the views of senior Labour figures.

He told a conference in Brussels today: “We recognise and we see that there are antisemitic views in many of the leadership of the current Labour Party. We hope it will be changed. The views.”

In a thinly-veiled reference to Jeremy Corbyn’s past comments about Hamas, Mr Erdan added that Israel hoped Labour would “come to the right decisions about people in their party who don’t understand that Hamas is a recognised terror organisation, that you cannot have a regular relationship with a terror organisation”.