Marie van der Zil appeared on the Today program with the curious accusation that a committee of the Labour Party was "political" whereas the self-appointed Board of Deputies of British Jews is not at all political with its support for Israel. And I'm the Queen of Sheba.
Whom does the BoD represent?
In a response to the BoD’s recent demands that the Labour leadership candidates must agree to sign up to their 10 ‘pledges’, Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) have responded by advising the candidates that the BoD have no right to claim to speak for the British “Jewish Community”, especially given that Charedi Jews (approx 20% of the British Jewish population) do not recognise their authority. They also point out that they can’t claim to represent the 50% of all British Jews who happen to be secular either.
The full article is well-worth reading.
It is all a pretext to attack Jeremy Corbyn and Marie van der Zil attacks all Socialists when she attacks him.
Obviously there are some Jews the so-called Board of Deputies does not represent.
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