If Theresa May’s overall achievements as Prime Minister are difficult to highlight– for British Jews she will be remembered by most as a leader who offered them and Israel unprecedented support.
It was her Cabinet who led the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism – a landmark decision that recognised how much modern day Jew-hate comes from opposition to the Jewish people’s right to self-determination.
To her credit, Mrs May also stood tall and strong against the anti-Zionist ideology of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour – often challenging and defeating him in heated Commons exchanges on the issue.
It is a little known fact, that after last year’s emotionally charged antisemitism debate in the Commons, it was the Conservative PM who wrote to congratulate MP Luciana Berger - who later quit Labour over Jew-hate - on her speech on the issue. Jeremy Corbyn did nothing.
