Labour’s anti-Semitism scandal ‘is one of world’s worst anti-Jewish outbreaks this year’
JEREMY Corbyn's handling of the Labour anti-Semitism crisis has been ranked alongside a synagogue massacre as the fourth worst anti-Jewish incident of the year.
The Labour leader has been held "directly responsible" for the scandal in a list of 2018's top ten anti-Semitic events by a Jewish human rights organisation.
They also include the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre at number one, swastikas being daubed around US university campuses at three and Airbnb's refusal to list rooms in the West Bank in sixth.
The 2018 report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, renowned for its Holocaust research, said Mr Corbyn had allowed the "world's oldest hatred into the mainstream of society".
It stated that allegations of anti-Semitism by key Labour members and officials had "piled up in recent years".
The group's report criticised Mr Corbyn for being pictured embracing members of "Middle East terrorist groups" and for his initial refusal to accept the internationally-recognised definition of anti-Semitism.
The Labour chief spent months refusing to agree to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition before the party's ruling committee adopted it in full.
Mr Corbyn had also been slammed for a video which emerged of him saying Zionists had no sense of "English irony" - leading to him clarifying he meant Zionists in its "politically accurate" sense.
Labour MPs had also criticised their leader and the party for being slow to act on allegations of anti-Semitism by its members.
Other anti-Jewish incidents in the Wiesenthal report included Pink Floyd star Roger Waters for continually crossing "the line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism" in tenth.
Also listed at number two was America's Nation of Islam leader apparently comparing Jews to termites.
A Labour Party spokesman said: "Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party are fully committed to the support, defence and celebration of the Jewish community.
"We are taking action against antisemitism, standing in solidarity with Jewish communities and rebuilding trust."
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Tory chairman Brandon Lewis said: “This is an utterly shocking indictment of just how bad anti-Jewish racism has become in Labour under Corbyn’s leadership.
"It starts at the very top, and Corbyn’s promise of a ‘kindler gentler politics’ lies in tatters.
"His complete failure to deal with anti-Jewish racism in his party illustrates why he’d be unfit to govern the country.”
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