The Board of Deputies has released the following statement following the scenes at yesterday’s rally for the hostages.
“Confronting the challenges we face as a community will only be done successfully if we can do it in a united and cross-communal way.
“We deplore the way a section of the crowd treated the Co-Chief Executive Rabbis of Progressive Judaism today, and that they were asked to leave the stage.
“It was disrespectful and self-defeating and should have no place in our communal life. Those indulging in this disgraceful behaviour should reflect that if we cannot even hear and speak to other Jews with respect then they have no chance of convincing wider society.”