As British rabbis, it is with great regret that we find it necessary to write, yet antisemitism within sections of the Labour party has become so severe and widespread that we must speak out with one Jewish voice.

The Labour party’s leadership has chosen to ignore those who understand antisemitism the best, the Jewish community. By claiming to know what’s good for our community, the Labour party’s leadership have chosen to act in the most insulting and arrogant way.

It is not the Labour party’s place to rewrite a definition of antisemitism accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service, College of Policing, the Scottish parliament, the Welsh assembly, the National Union of Students, and 124 local authorities, including scores of Labour-held councils, including Haringey and Greater Manchester – but above all else, accepted by the vast majority of Jewish people in Britain and globally.

On behalf of our communities, members and congregants, we urge the Labour party to listen to the Jewish community, adopt the full and unamended International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism including its examples, and like the organisations listed above, use the IHRA definition alone as their working definition of antisemitism.

Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski Senior rabbi, Golders Green Synagogue, and vice-chair, Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue

Rabbi Joseph Dweck Senior rabbi, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi Community of the UK

Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner Senior rabbi to Reform Judaism

Rabbi Nicky Liss Highgate Synagogue, and chair, Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue

Rabbi Avrohom Pinter Principal of the Yesodey Hatorah schools

Rabbi Danny Rich Senior rabbi and chief executive of Liberal Judaism

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Senior Rabbi to Masorti Judaism

Dayan Ivan Binstock Dayan (judge) of the London Beth Din, and senior rabbi, St John’s Wood Synagogue

Rabbi Stuart Altshuler Belsize Square Synagogue

Rabbi Larry Becker Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue

Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum Hadley Wood Jewish Community, and executive, Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue

Rabbi Yehuda Black Kenton United Synagogue

Rabbi Janet Burden Ealing Liberal Synagogue

Rabbi Baruch Davis Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue and past chair, Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue

Rabbi Hadassah Davis Member of the Liberal Rabbinic Conference

Rabbi Colin Eimer Emeritus rabbi, Sha’arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue

Rabbi Daniel Epstein Cockfosters & North Southgate Synagogue

Rabbi Elchonon Feldman Senior rabbi, Bushey and District United Synagogue

Rabbi Yisroel Fine St Johns Wood Synagogue

Rabbi Paul Freedman Senior rabbi, Radlett Reform Synagogue

Rabbi Dr Moshe Freedman New West End Synagogue

Rabbi Ariel J Friedlander

Rabbi Yoni Golker Assistant rabbi, St John’s Wood Synagogue

Rabbi Michael Harris Hampstead Synagogue

Rabbi Simon Harris Wembley Synagogue

Rabbi Frank Hellner Emeritus rabbi, Finchley Progressive Synagogue

Rabbi Jonny Hughes Radlett United Synagogue

Rabbi Geoffrey Hyman Rabbi, Ilford United Synagogue

Rabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi Birmingham Progressive Synagogue

Rabbi Richard Jacobi East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue

Cantor Zoe Jacobs Finchley Reform Synagogue

Rabbi Oliver Spike Joseph Elstree & Borehamwood Masorti Community

Rabbi Chaim Kanterovitz Senior Rabbi Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue & Chair Vaad Harabonim Mizrachi UK

Rabbi Dov Kaplan Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue

Rabbi Yuval Keren Southgate Progressive Synagogue

Rabbi Michael Laitner Senior rabbi of United Synagogue Jewish Living, and assistant rabbi, Finchley Synagogue

Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence Senior rabbi, Finchley United Synagogue

Rabbi Barry Lerer Barnet Synagogue

Rabbi Judith Levitt

Rabbi Mendel Lew Stanmore & Canons Park Synagogue

Rabbi Shlomo Odze Associate rabbi, South Hampstead United Synagogue and vice-chair, Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue

Rabbi Alan Mann

Rabbi Rodney Mariner Former rabbi, Belsize Square Synagogue

Rabbi David Mason Rabbi at Muswell Hill Synagogue and executive member, Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue

Rabbi David Mitchell West London Synagogue

Rabbi Lea Mühlstein Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue

Rabbi Rene Pfertzel Kingston Liberal Synagogue

Rabbi Hershel Rader Brighton and Hove Hebrew Congregation

Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain Maidenhead Synagogue

Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler Jewish chaplain, University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes

Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild Past chair of the Rabbinic Assembly of Reform Judaism

Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue

Rabbi Dr J Shindler Executive director, Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet Mill Hill Synagogue

Rabbi Irit Shillor Harlow Jewish Community

Rabbi Yitzchok Sufrin Enfield & Winchmore Hill United Synagogue

Rabbi Lee M Sunderland Romford & District Synagogue

Rabbi Dr Jackie Tabick Convener of the Beit Din, the Movement for Reform Judaism

Rabbi Roni Tabick New Stoke Newington Synagogue

Rabbi Sam Taylor Community rabbi, Western Marble Arch Synagogue

Rabbi Pete Tobias The Liberal Synagogue Elstree

Rabbi Alexander Tsykin Jewish chaplain, Bristol and Western Region

Rabbi Dr Martin van den Bergh Childwall Hebrew Congregation

Dayan Elimelech Vanzetta Rabbi, Ahavas Yisrael

Rabbi Charles Wallach Bournemouth Reform Synagogue

Rabbi Chaim Weiner Director of Masorti Europe and European Masorti Bet Din

Rabbi Roderick Young Former principal rabbi, Finchley Reform Synagogue

Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue

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