The U.K.’s Labour Party is on course to lose 175 council seats in Thursday’s elections, a setback that would amount to the party’s worst local election performance for 35 years. A new projection, conducted for the Guardian newspaper, shows that while Labour is set to suffer catastrophic losses, the ruling Conservative Party could gain 30 seats.…
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, issued the following statement:
“We at the American Jewish Congress are dumbfounded by this situation, in which four members of the Labor Party, including a former mayor of London, issued remarkably anti-Semitic comments over the span of only a couple of weeks.
“For such highly-visible public officials to issue such inflammatory remarks targeting the Jewish community, and for them to hail from a nation that is considered such a close ally to both Israel and the United States, comes as quite a shock. We hope that politicians in the United Kingdom — and anywhere, for that matter — will hold themselves to a higher standard and invoke a degree of political correctness when exercising their right to free expression.
“Clearly, as Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Rebev said on Sunday, anti-Semitism is not just a problem of the far-Right in Europe.”