Labour is facing a fresh storm over allegations of anti-Semitism at the top of the party after former chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks compared Jeremy Corbyn’s comments on Zionists with Enoch Powell’s inflammatory “rivers of blood” speech. “One is they don’t want to study history, and secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all of their lives, they don’t understand English irony either.”
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Lord Sacks told the New Statesman: “The recently disclosed remarks by Jeremy Corbyn are the most offensive statement made by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 ‘rivers of blood’ speech. “Now, within living memory of the Holocaust, and while Jews are being murdered elsewhere in Europe for being Jews, we have an anti-Semite as the leader of the Labour Party and Her Majesty’s Opposition. “Some of us are being made to feel unwelcome and uncomfortable.”

While one party source said they were not aware of the complaint, a Labour spokesperson said: “The Labour party’s complaints procedure operates confidentially in the interests of fairness to all concerned. • READ MORE: Ex-chief rabbi says Corbyn comment as bad as Powell Rivers of Blood speech

“Jeremy Corbyn is determined to tackle anti-Semitism both within the Labour Party and in wider society and the Labour Party is committed to rebuilding trust with the Jewish community.”

The Labour leader has previously said that his remarks had been defending the ambassador from “what I thought were deliberate misrepresentations” by people “for whom English was a first language, when it isn’t for the ambassador”.
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