{"id":152735,"date":"2019-12-02T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=152735"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:39:50","slug":"jewish-people-and-the-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/02\/jewish-people-and-the-labour-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish people and the Labour party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Rosen writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1. I&#8217;ve met people who think that there are no Jews left in the Labour Party.<br \/>\n2. I&#8217;ve met people who think that the Chief Rabbi is in some way or another in charge of, or a representative of all Jews in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of these statements is true or anything like true.<\/p>\n<p>There are several Jewish candidates for the Labour Party. There are thousands of Labour Party members who are Jewish. Several times in the media people have said how it&#8217;s impossible or &#8216;not safe&#8217; for Jews to stay in the Labour Party. It&#8217;s not impossible. If the media had wanted to, they could have asked Jewish MPs, Jewish candidates in this election &#8216;Is it impossible or unsafe for you to be in the Labour Party?&#8217; It has been dishonest of them to have not done that.<\/p>\n<p>There are also Rabbis who have either said that they will vote Labour and\/or have expressed great concern over the way Jewish religious leaders (Rabbi Romain and the Chief Rabbi) have intervened in this election. You can read about these Rabbis in the Jewish Chronicle online: Rabbi Danny Rich and Rabbi Howard Cooper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmichael.rosen.5496%2Fposts%2F10157626523532225&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Rosen writes: &#8220;1. I&#8217;ve met people who think that there are no Jews left in the Labour Party. 2. I&#8217;ve met people who think that the Chief Rabbi is in some way or another in charge of, or a representative of all Jews in Britain. Neither of these statements is true or anything like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/02\/jewish-people-and-the-labour-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jewish people and the Labour party<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-DJt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9916,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/05\/12\/an-obituary-from-the-year-2025-for-a-labour-party-that-abandoned-its-roots\/","url_meta":{"origin":152735,"position":0},"title":"An obituary from the year 2025 for a Labour party that abandoned its roots","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The party could withstand election defeats. 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