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A Jewish politician from Britain’s Labour Party and the shadow party cabinet minister, Ivan Lewis, has urged his followers not to vote for the frontrunner to head the party, Jeremy Corbyn, because “some of [Corbyn’s] stated political views are a cause for serious concern.” Lewis is also a former chief executive of the Manchester Jewish Federation.
In a letter addressed to his local party members on Friday, Lewis stated that “at the very least he has shown very poor judgment in expressing support for and failing to speak out against people who have engaged not in legitimate criticism of Israeli governments but in antisemitic rhetoric.” Corbyn has working relationships with the Socialist Campaign Group, Amnesty International and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament but he was criticized on Wednesday by the Jewish Chronicle of London, which claimed that he had ties to “Holocaust deniers, terrorists and some outright antisemites.” They reportedly mentioned that “we are certain that we speak for the vast majority of British Jews in expressing deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr. Corbyn’s election as Labour leader.”
Just a day before the allegation, The Daily Mail reported that Corbyn defended a conspiracy theorist who blamed Israel for Sept. 11 in February. However, Corbyn has published a response to the Jewish Chronicle editorial and mentioned that he was “proud to represent a multicultural constituency of people from all over the world and to speak at every opportunity of understanding between Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and other faiths.”
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