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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Pro-Israel British Labour MP slams Corbyn over rift with Israeli counterpart
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA top pro-Israel British Labour Party lawmaker takes the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to task after Israel’s Labor Party severed ties with him earlier today.
Noting Corbyn’s “failure to deal with antisemitism in the Labour party and your hostility to the state of Israel,” Joan Ryan, an MP and chair of the Labour Friends of Israel, writes to Corbyn that she understands Israeli Labor’s decision.
“I fully understand why Mr. [Avi] Gabbay has taken this course of action and I am ashamed that one of our sister parties has no option but to take this unprecedented step.”
Our chair @joanryanEnfield has written to @jeremycorbyn over the Israeli Labor party's decision to suspend relations with him: pic.twitter.com/oh6kLEfGU2
— Labour Friends of Israel (@_LFI) April 10, 2018
Ryan notes that Corbyn never took up the offer from former Israeli Labor leader Isaac Herzog to visit Israel in 2016.
“I would now urge you to consider why it is that Israeli Labor feels it cannot have a relationship you.”
The Times of Israel Community.