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i24NEWS DESK | Less than two weeks before the contentious upcoming election, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis slammed the head of the Labour party, saying “Jeremy Corbyn [is] not fit for high office.”

In an opinion piece written for British daily The Times, Rabbi Mirvis wrote that “the overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety” at the possibility of a Labour victory on December 12.


“A new poison -- sanctioned from the very top -- has taken root” under Corbyn’s helm, says Rabbi Mirvis. 


“The way in which the leadership of the Labour Party has dealt with anti-Jewish racism is incompatible with the British values of which we are so proud -- of dignity and respect for all people,” the spiritual leader of the United Synagogue added.
“It has left many decent Labour members and parliamentarians, both Jewish and non-Jewish, ashamed of what has transpired.”
Principal leader of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, backed the chief rabbi in a tweet, saying "as a Church, we are very conscious of our own history of anti-Semitism. None of us can afford to be complacent."


The leader of the Labour party has come under fire for purportedly failing to stem anti-Semitism and a harsh stance toward Israel, having previously compared it to the Islamic State (IS) terror group and Nazi Germany.


Corbyn has consistently expressed favor for boycotting Israel, and has also met with Hezbollah and Hamas activists. Hebrew-language broadcaster Channel 12 reported that in 2016 he was invited by then-head of Israel's Labor party Isaac Herzog to visit Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, but turned the offer down.
Meanwhile, the Conservative Party in Britain, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, seemed to align itself with the Trump administration's pro-Israel stance, vowing to prohibit local councils from boycotting products from foreign states, including Israel.

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