anti-semitism in britain

Labour former leader Jeremy Corbyn, show speaking at a London mosque in May 2019, wrote an email to party members saying anti-Semitism must be driven out of the movement. (Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)

Jeremy Corbyn says he’ll step down as Britain’s Labour Party leader after resounding defeat

Many British Jews breathed a sigh of relief after the party suffered its worst loss since 1935.

Labour Party opponents arrive at Jeremy Corbyn's final rally in Hoxton, London on December 11, 2019. (Beata Zawrzel/Getty Images)

For some British Jews, elections feel like the walls are closing in

Caught between a party they believe is anti-Semitic and another they fear will spell financial ruin, Britain’s Jews are feeling marginalized and powerless.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn giving an election campaign speech in Battersea, England on October 31, 2019.(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Yiddish fliers call London rabbi ‘a threat’ for speaking out about Labour anti-Semitism

Avraham Pinter has come under attack before by an ally of the beleaguered Labour Party in the heavily haredi Orthodox area of Stamford Hill.

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How Britain’s huge upcoming election affects Jews

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British newspaper publishes op-ed calling settlements ‘the trouble with Jews’

U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at the SOAS University of London, July 14, 2019. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire/Getty Images)

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Jeremy Corbyn says he is ‘very sorry’ for anti-Semitism incidents in Labour Party

Hugh Grant, left, canvassing in Finchley, London, with Liberal Democratic parliament candidate Luciana Berger, right, Dec. 1, 2019. (David Mirzoeff/PA Images via Getty Images)

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Hugh Grant campaigns with Luciana Berger in London’s most Jewish borough

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, shown making a speech during a visit to Pen Green Children's Centre in Corby, England, Aug. 19, 2019, has been accused of allowing anti-Semitism in his party. (Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)

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Jeremy Corbyn mispronounces Jeffrey Epstein’s name, and critics have a field day

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UK Tory candidate says rabbis turn Jews visiting Israel into ‘brainwashed extremists’

Brexit Party's Islington North candidate Yosef David. (Courtesy)

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An Orthodox Jew is running for Jeremy Corbyn’s Parliament seat. He’ll need a miracle.

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