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Board of Deputies President welcomes Keir Starmer’s decision to withhold whip from Jeremy Corbyn
18 November 2020Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl has reacted to Labour Leader Keir Starmer’s decision to withhold the Labour whip from Jeremy Corbyn following his reinstatement to the Party. Marie said: “We welcome Keir Starmer’s decision to withhold the whip from Jeremy Corbyn. Despite the EHRC’s finding that the Party had acted unlawfully under […]
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Decision to reinstate Jeremy Corbyn to Labour Party is a ‘retrograde step’
17 November 2020Jewish community leaders have reacted to today’s decision to re-admit Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour Party. Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl, Jewish Leadership Chair Jonathan Goldstein and Community Security Trust Chief Executive Mark Gardner said: “Today’s decision is a retrograde step for the Party in its relations with the […]
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Board of Deputies calls on Labour Party to reject Corbyn’s ‘pathetic non-apology’
17 November 2020Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl has condemned Jeremy Corbyn’s statement made today and called on the Labour Party to reject it. Marie said: “The Jewish community does not accept this pathetic non-apology from Jeremy Corbyn. Keir Starmer rightly called the day of the release of the EHRC report a “day of shame”. […]
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Board of Deputies welcomes decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn
29 October 2020Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl has welcomed the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party. Marie said: “We welcome the decision of the Labour Party to suspend Jeremy Corbyn. Having presided over the descent of a proudly anti-racist party into a party that broke equalities law in its treatment of Jews, […]
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‘When he eventually steps back, history will not look kindly on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, where anti-Jewish racism has been allowed to run amok’
13 December 2019Reacting to the result of the General Election, Marie van der Zyl, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: “This election victory is an historic achievement for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party. We hope that the Prime Minister will use his new mandate to bring the country together, and put an […]
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Marie van der Zyl reacts to Jeremy Corbyn interview on ITV
03 December 2019Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl has reacted to Jeremy Corbyn’s comments made to Philip Schofield on ITV today. Marie said: “In an appearance on ITV, after again being asked five times for an apology on his party’s inability to deal with the antisemitism in its ranks, Mr Corbyn finally […]
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Board of Deputies President: Corbyn, Milne and Formby are personally responsible for having turned a once-great, anti-racist party into a cesspit of antisemitism
10 July 2019Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl has reacted to tonight’s Panorama investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party. “This Panorama investigation gives added weight to what we have suspected all along. It suggests that the issue of antisemitism has been treated with disdain by the Labour leader and as a […]
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Board of Deputies President: Corbyn does not care if his actions signal support for racist attitudes
03 May 2019Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl has written to Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, telling him ‘the Jewish community is entitled to an apology for this failure to speak out against prejudice against our community when confronted with racism’. She was replying to Mr Corbyn’s letter in which he claims not […]
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Board of Deputies President sends letter to Jeremy Corbyn expressing ‘grave concern’ about his foreword for antisemitic book
01 May 2019Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl has today sent an open letter to Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn expressing grave concern about the letter he wrote for the republication of John Hobson’s book Imperialism, which has an obvious antisemitic message. You can read the letter here.
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Board of Deputies reacts to report that Jeremy Corbyn’s office intervened to stop antisemitism suspension
05 March 2019Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl has reacted to a report that Jeremy Corbyn’s office had prevented a Labour Party member from being suspended for antisemitism. Marie said: “It is intensely disturbing to hear reports that the Labour leader’s office has intervened to stop the suspension of a member who […]