Labour's problem is “not only Corbyn but also Corbynism and Corbynites,” Jewish Leadership Council chairman Jonathan Goldstein has said as he set out how party can repair its relationship with the community.
Writing in the Sunday Times in the wake of Labour's disastrous election under Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Goldstein said that “large numbers of the influx of far-left members” into the party under his leadership were “carriers of a particular variant of antisemitism deep in their ideological and political approach”.
“We were also let down by many of those who now denounce what took place but were at the heart of the project or on the national executive committee,” he continued.
“The most painful realisation of this campaign was to discover that, to our friends in Labour, British Jews were ultimately politically expendable.”
