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Luciana Berger among mass mutinbut Corbyn clings on

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Jewish community leads

tributes as Cameron quits

Fears over far-right resurgenceafter UK exits European Union

BREXIT: THE FALLOUT Pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 17 & 1GONE!


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BREXIT: THE FALLOUT

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LUCIANA BERGER joined the wave ofresignations from Jeremy Corbynsshadow cabinet this week, as pressuregrew on the leader to quit.

The first ever shadow mentalhealth minister was one of more than50 frontbenchers and parliamentaryprivate secretaries to step down, amidsuggestions Corbyn had not doneenough to campaign for a Remainvote last week and fears that DavidCamerons successor could call a snapelection.

A vote of no confidence in his lead-ership was overwhelmingly passed onTuesday.

Berger, Labours most senior Jewishfigure, said in her resignation letterthat Corbyn had shown her nothingbut kindness and that it had beena privilege to serve in the new post.

But she added: My conviction isthat we need a Labour leader who canunite our party, both in Parliament

and in the country. I have served the Labour Party aleader with loyalty. Having lclosely to local party membersto the party must come first.

Ruth Smeeth, who served asmentary private secretary shadow Northern Ireland anland teams, also stepped dow

The partys MEPs and formeEd Miliband have added theito those calling for the leader aside.

Cameron also questioned Cefforts during the campaign Prime Ministers Questions, For heavens sake man, go!

Corbyn has steadfastly refustand down, insisting that woto betray the thousands of mwho catapulted him to poweWatson and Angela Eagle are ered the most likely to launformal challenge.

Berger joins mass mutiny but Corbyn hangs

Resignation: Shadow minister Luciana Berger

JEWISH LEADERS have paid tribute tooutgoing Prime Minister David Cameron,after his resignation following Britains de-

cision to leave the EU.Sir Mick Davis, chairman of the Jewish

Leadership Council and former chairmanof the Holocaust Commission, said: DavidCameron has always been a loyal friend ofthe Jewish community and a visible andvocal supporter of Israel. He has workedconstructively with us, engaging on issuesof concern to British Jews. I wish to thankhim for his many years of service.

Karen Pollock, chief executive of theHolocaust Educational Trust, said Cameronhad always been a staunch friend of ourcause and our community and we thankhim for his years of support, not only for ourLessons from Auschwitz project, but alsohis establishment of the national HolocaustCommission and soon-to-be created Holo-caust memorial beside Parliament.

Board of Deputies chief executive GillianMerron said: We want to extend our

communitys heartfelt gratitude to DavidCameron for his service to the country andhis friendship to our community.

She added: His legacy will be as some-one who did not run away from difficultquestions, but put them to the Britishpeople to decide. We will continue tobuild on that strong relationship...

Conservative Friends of Israelthanked Cameron for his genuinefriendship and for strengtheningthe relationship between Israeland the UK. It said in astatement: The Jewishcommunity and Israelshould be very sadtoday. David Cameronhas been, and is, an

outstanding friend, resolute in the fightagainst anti-Semitism, and ensuring the UKwill have a national memorial to the Holo-

caust and a world-class learning centre.They said he had stood firmly by Israels

side and delivered record levels of UK-Israel trade, rejected the divisive boycott,divestment and sanctions movement,stopped politically-motivated councils boy-cotting Israel, amended universal jurisdic-tion legislation, and led the EU-wideproscription of Hezbollahs military wingremarkable achievements.

Israels Security Minister Gilad Erdan saidCameron was a true friend of the country,adding his decision to resign was sad andunfortunate but proves he was a responsi-ble leader and a fair and true gentleman.

Lord (Andrew) Feldman also stepsdown from his role as chairman of theConservative Party, but like Cameron, willremain in place to oversee a leader-ship transition.

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Boris JohnsonHis description of Israel boycotters as corduroy-wearing, snaggle-toothed, lefty academics lastyear will live long in the memory. A well-known friendof the Jewish community, Boris who spent time ona kibbutz as a youngster raised eyebrows in 2014,when he said Israels actions in Gaza were dispro-portionate and ugly. Overall, his long-standing support of Israel, andhis recent trade visit establishing links, will hold him in good stead.

Prime minister in waiting?

Theresa MayLike Boris, the Home Secretary has been very sup-portive of the Jewish community, lending strongsupport amid an increase in anti-Semitism duringthe Gaza conflict. Subsequently, many will remem-ber her at a Board of Deputies plenary, holding upa Je Suis Juif sign with ex-Communities Secretary Eric Pickles. Shehas shown a keen understanding of the concerns of the community.

Stephen Crabb (Joint ticket with Sajid Javid)The Scottish-born Secretary of State for Work andPensions is Conservative MP in Pembrokeshire, acommitted Christian and a member of Conserva-tives Friends for Israel. Last month, on Israels Re-membrance Day, he addressed more than 1,000people at the Finchley Synagogue service. He says he has a very closeaffinity with the Holy Land, which he visited for the first time in 2007.


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THE THREAT to shechita in post-BrexitBritain was spelled out in stark detail thisweek by one of the Jewish communitystop campaigners.

Shimon Cohen, director of Shechita

UK, said British Jewry had so far beenprotected by European Regulation 1099,which exempts religious slaughter andoverrides domestic law, but which will nolonger apply if Britain leaves the Euro-pean Union.

If that happens, the British governmentwould either have to ask Parliament toadopt 1099, with the exemption, or comeup with its own law, said Cohen. Eitherway, if it goes to a vote in the House of Par-liament, wed lose. Its a numbers game.

Cohen added that, alongside parking,animal welfare was one of the twobiggest issues MPs hear most about from

constituents, and said that right-wingopinion in the UK, predominantly aimedat the Muslim community, would meanMPs voting against non-stun slaughterexemptions.

Shechita is already banned in someEuropean states such as Sweden, whileother countries such as Poland havesought to do so, but seen efforts defeatedin domestic parliaments and courts.

Now, after years campaigning for theright to practice shechita on the conti-nent, Cohen says the next challenge willbe here in the UK, countering nationalistsobsession with Muslims, who also arguefor religious (i.e. non-stun) slaughter.

If it goes to the floor [of Parliament],the risks are very high. The battle is aroundpopulation control. The right-wing op-poses any concessions to the Muslim pop-

ulation. Thats where our problem lies. Itsnot about Jews. The MPs will argue thatits about cruelty to animals but its not.

In Brussels, Rabbi Menachem Margolin,head of the Rabbinal Centre of Europe,

which represents 800 rabbis, agreed thatBritains exit posed a headache.He said: The EU is today much weaker.

The UK in particular was a strong advo-cate for freedom of religion. We have lostan important voice here.

He argued that chaos in Europe histori-cally leads to nationalism and radicalism,adding: It brings attacks on the Jewishway of life, such as shechita and brit milah.Brexit sees a number of threats from theseparties, who are licking their lips at theprospect of increasing power. It appearsthat Brexit has given them hope. That isdeeply worrying for Jews across Europe.

No safeguards for shechita in post-Brexit Britain

Could shechita now be targeted in the UK?

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LAST WEEK Britain voted to leave theEuropean Union. This week the politicalfallout has been tumultuous.

Away from Westminster, we have seenugly scenes. Some people are intent onusing the outcome of the referendum todivide communities. Others have inferredfrom the result that voting Leave means

immigrants should now be forced out ofthe UK. Indeed, BBC News carried an

interview with a man with a swastika tat-too who said he now felt able to speakout against the presence of EU migrants.

There have been other troublingreports of racist abuse and this week weissued a statement deploring racist harass-ment and urging our community to standin solidarity with those suffering. We haveconfidence in the government, police andcivil society to take a firm stance andensure we all feel safe and secure. Therecan be no place for racism in Britain.

So far, the Jewish community doesnot seem to have suffered much from

these attacks. But it didnt take long forpeople to take to social media to claimthe current campaign against Labourleader Jeremy Corbyn has been orches-trated by the Zionists.

The referendum result has been cele-brated by the far-right in Europe. FrenchNational Front leader Marine Le Pencalled Brexit a victory for freedom andBeatrix von Storch of the right-wing pop-ulist Alternative for Germany party saidshe cried for joy at the result. As and

when we do leave the EU, British Jewsstill need to work closely with our Euro-

pean counterparts in the face of anypotential upsurge in anti-Semitism.

Ultimately, all of us Jews and non-Jews need to unite to ensure that what-ever path the UK takes, we never turnaway from the values of liberalism andtolerance, which have made Britain thecountry it is today and a place where theJewish community has thrived.

There may be hard bargaining aheadfor officials, but these are values onwhich we can never compromise.

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VERBER

Senior Vice President

Board of Deputies

We must never turn away from values of liberalism and tolerance


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WHEN I HEAR another cham-pagne socialist, usually a richbanker, corporate lawyer or mil-lionaire property developer, com-plain the world is coming to anend and they will have to takeone less holiday when the aver-age family in Britain can barelymake ends meet I wince. Itsvery clear the elite have not un-derstood what has been happen-ing in Britain in recent years andhas brought the situation onthemselves. And I am no socialist!

The British people voted lastThursday for a decision to comeout of the EU. It was a long-term

view about the future direction ofour country.Had the tragic death of Jo Cox

not happened a few days priorand had the government notscared everyone about the im-pact of leaving because it couldnot make a strong case for re-maining, I dare say the leave votewould have been higher still.

However, the City now, par-tially scared by all the falsegovernment warnings, partiallythrowing its toys out the prambecause it wasnt the result itwanted (or expected) and dam-aged markets prove it right, andpartially because its players allsheepishly follow one another, isbehaving totally irresponsibly.

It has itself to blame fomediate turmoil.

The EU is almost half of global GDP it was 25 yand shrinking. Everyone has a dysfunctional sinrency that is causing masployment across the con

This economic situbuilding resentment betwropean nations and, quently, we have more eparties in the EU reariheads at any time since

Meanwhile, the singleis not some magical woring untold benefits. Anycan trade with it withoutmember. The US expoto it than we do, withouall the disbenefits.

And even if there weof a few percent, this

amount to less than oucontribution to the EU. Opercent of British coexport to the EU, so the tariffs would be miniscupared with, say, the inc

VAT from 15 to 20 perceour goods, which has hain recent years. Our edid not fall off a cliff the

The long-term prospBritain is excellent outEU. We will join the vastof normal countries in ththat arent shackled to ing, increasingly undeEU. It is a great opportBritain and, with the recehem in the markets, a grto buy shares.

AS WE emerge from ShabbatBrexit, what is now at stakefor French Jews in London?And what could it mean interms of further emigrationfrom France to the UK?

In the past few days, I havebeen asked whether I wouldbe allowed back in were I totravel abroad. Well, I didtravel... and I was allowedback in, no questions asked.

My theory is that, for currentresidents, there will be nopanic, but many questionsalong the following lines: Will I have to apply for some

type of residency status two tothree years from now? Should I apply for dual citi-zenship? Will it be more difficult formy family members and friendsin France to join me if theyelect to do so?

That last question leads us toswitch perspective and look atthings from the vantage pointof Jews in France and whetherboth their chances and ap-petite to move to London havebeen affected by the leave vic-tory.

From a security standpoint,the waters are a bit muddled.On the one hand, France willnot be spared by the turmoil

created by this economic andpolitical weakening of Europe

and the reinforcement of ex-treme right nationalistic feel-ings. This is not good for theJews.

On the other hand, the firstnationalistic gambit in thereconfiguration of the mapbelongs well and truly to theUK, as proven by the results ofthe referendum. So: safer inthe UK than in France? Today,yes. Tomorrow: who knows?

I had the opportunity ofspending last Friday nightdinner in Brussels with FransTimmermans, the first vicepresident of the EuropeanCommission. He did worryabout the implied emergenceof nationalistic agendas (whenhas it resulted in better democ-

racy?) and of the dismissingof intellectual reasoning tothe benefit of identificationwith emotions and soundbites(again, when has this everresulted in betterment?).

From an economic stand-point, many French Jews workin or for the City and both theprospects of economic down-turn and its accompanying lay-offs and the possible relocationof European operations to thecontinent, cast a shadow ontheir perspectives.

Many, for whom the City wasthe next Eldorado, will nowhedge their bets and mostlikely delay any plans to movehere.

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BREXIT: THE FALLOUT

THE CHIEF Rabbi of France wasin London this week, insisting that

France is still safe for Jews butwarning of the consequences ofBrexit for minority groups, writesRebecca Pinnington.

Speaking at the French ambas-sadors residence on Tuesday,Ham Korsia said he was certainthe rise of the populist far rightwould not result in Frances Jewsfleeing in great numbers. He alsoemphatically disagreed withNatan Sharansky, head of theJewish Agency for Israel, whodeclared on Monday: There isno future for Jews in France.

Korsia told Jewish News: Thefact that [French prime minister]Manuel Valls said: France withoutJews is not France is more impor-

tant to me. It reminds us that weare loved and we have a place.

There may be difficulties, buton the whole Korsia felt it wassafe for Jews in France. In anycase, it was preferable to stayand fight against racism.

Asked about the rise of MarineLe Pens Front National, which hasbeen accused of anti-Semitism, hesaid it did not matter how popularthe party was, but it would bedangerous to give it support.

After Brexit, many FrenchJews expressed concerns overtheir future in Britain.

One man recounted beingshoved in the street near Pic-cadilly Circus while speakingFrench and being told: I dontwant people like you here.

JEWISH CHARITIES have voicedconcerns over how the uncer-tainty associated with Brexit mayimpact upon their work.

Simon Morris, chief executiveof Jewish Care said it was anuncertain time as the charityhad a significant number ofstaff working across the organi-sation who are EU nationals.

He said the charity was talkingto advisers and doing all wecan to reassure staff that we willsupport them as best we can.

Norwoods chief executive,Elaine Kerr, said: We will notsuffer a detrimental impact, as

long as the UK economy ishealthy, local authorities and theNHS continue to fund care andsupport for our services users atcurrent levels and our donors fi-nancial positions can be main-tained.

World Jewish Relief, whichworks mainly in the formerSoviet Union and EasternEurope, said it was primarilyconcerned with the value ofsterling as it received no fundingfrom the EU most vulnerableJews it supports are outsidethe union in Belarus, Georgia,Moldova and Ukraine.

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JEWISH SECURITY officials this weekurged the government to clampdown on racism after 87 incidents

were reported in the immediate after-math of the Brexit vote.Community Security Trust

spokesman Dave Rich said: In termsof bigger picture its worrying, andpart of a wider atmosphere of xeno-phobia which the authorities shouldclamp down on quickly.

He added that political leadersneed to make sure it doesnt spreadby not using divisive and xenophobiclanguage and by explicitly condemn-ing hate crime.

Police figures show a 57 percentspike in hate crime targeting immigrantcommunities in the three days after thereferendum, with officers saying thiswas no coincidence.

Among the examples reported wereinstances of racist graffiti daubed onPolish centres and other ethnic minori-ties being abused in the streets and onsocial media.

The CST said it works with differentethnic communities to share expertise.

While Rich confirmed there were noplans to extend this in the wake of thevote, he explained that if we receive

any requests of that nature, well dowhat we can.Echoing the sentiments was the

Jewish Council for Racial Equality(JCORE), which said it was ex-tremely concerned by the in-creasing number of incidents ofracist abuse taking place onBritish streets since the EU refer-endum on Thursday.

The UK is home to more than65 million people, the rights groupsaid. Over decades, we have allworked very hard to ensure that peo-ple feel safe in their communities.

It is important that we standtogether, regardless of race, religionor political opinion, to ensure every-one understands that the abuse expe-rienced by many in the last few days isunacceptable.

JCORE added that it was espe-cially incumbent on politicians, on allsides to reaffirm their own commit-ment to the safety and security of mi-norities in Britain, many of whom nowfeel forced to question whether theyhave a place here.

Gillian Merron, chief executiveof the Board of Deputies, said: TheJewish community knows all toowell these feelings of vulnerabilityand will not remain silent in the faceof a reported rise in racially-motivatedharassment.

Prime Minister David Cameron has

called the incidents despicablewhile London Mayor Sadiq Khanasked the capital to stand guardagainst divisive rhetoric.

Conservative Stamford Hill council-lor Simche Steinberger said: I repre-sent the Polish community in my area.

They are not here to cause any trou-ble, just to work and make Englandbetter.

The amount of work they doand the loyalty they show to the localarea is unbelievable.

Ive had many phone calls from

Polish people in the neighboand Ive had to calm themtelling them not to worry abourecent attacks and Brexit. Itgrace that people are targeting

Editorial comment, page 16

Above: English Defence League members in Newcastle at an anti-immigration rally on Saturday, two days after the refeInset above: A man advocates repatration on his T-shirt. Far left: A notice delivered to Polish people in Cambridgeshire

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UK NEWSNEWS

A JEWISH sociology lecturer carrying a bagwith the word schlep written on it has beentold to f*** off back to Israel with the other

Yids, in what may be the firs t instance of anti-Semitic abuse in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Natalie Pitimson,a senior lecturer at

the University ofBrighton, said Tues-days verbal assaultwas made on boarda busy commutertrain travellingthrough central Lon-don at rush-hour,but no one reacted,despite almost cer-tainly havingheard.

Of the bag, shesaid: I bought itfrom the Jewish Mu-seum in north London because I liked it. Theword schlep written on the side perfectly de-scribes my regular hour-long trek through cen-tral London.

On the train I noticed a lad and his girlfriendlooking at me and my bag, which was on mylap. When they spotted me looking back at

them, he told me to f*** off back to Israel withthe other Yids. Nobody else in the carriage re-acted.

Pitimson added: I got off at the next stop,not even noticing that I was several short of my

destination. I was shak-ing and very upset. I

thought about nothingelse for the rest of theday. I have never beentargeted in this waybefore but my experi-ence, it is quickly be-coming apparent, isnot an isolated one inpost-Brexit Britain.

She also describedfeeling that the abuseof ethnic minoritieshas arisen becausepoliticians for theleave campaign de-

humanised immigrants and mainstreamedtoxic views of outsiders.

She added: What were seeing is not reallyhate or fear. I dont think the lad on the train wasfrightened of me, nor do I think he hates me.That assumes that he saw a person when hemade his comment. And I dont think he did.

Teacher abused over Schlep bag

KEN LIVINGSTONE has pub-lished a statement on allegedanti-Semitism in the LabourParty, in support of his appear-ance earlier this month in frontof a Home Affairs Committee.

The former London mayor,who is suspended from the

party, continued to insist on thefactual accuracy of statementsmade earlier this year aboutAdolf Hitler's support forZion-ism, and denied rampant anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

In the online document, inwhich Livingstone mentions the

Nazi leaders name 11 times,he complained the committeeconducted an inquiry into hispast rather than anti-Semitism.

Livingstone claims commit-tee members were obsessedwith my views on the history ofGermany in the 1930s.

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NEWS

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby joined London

mayor Sadiq Khan this week to help break the Ramadan fast. They joined more than 100 y

leaders of many denominations at Lambeth Palace on Monday evening. Khan tweeted that

event had brought together young Londoners of all faiths, while Welby posted that it was

wonderful evening with youth leaders and friendships as Gods good gift.

SADIQ KHAN has expressed his con-cerns about the impact of the Brexitvote on community relations, as hebroke his Ramadan fast for the thirdconsecutive year at a London syna-gogue, writes Justin Cohen.

The mayor of London, who cam-paigned vigorously for the UK to remainin the European Union, has said he willfight for the best possible deal for thecapital, which voted overwhelmingly tostay inside the union.

Ahead of a Big Iftar event at FinchleyReform Synagogue, Khan told JewishNews: Im concerned that as a conse-

quence of the way the campaign wasconducted there has been agroundswell of people who feel vulner-able and frightened. Were hearing sto-ries of racial abuse and graffiti daubedon Polish buildings. We must be vigilantand show zero tolerance.

Weve got to remember that historytells us at times of economic uncertaintycommunity tension rises. Weve alreadyseen some of the stuff the far right aredoing on social media we cant allowthem to divide our communities.

Victims of racial abuse must report it,he said, acknowledging that he hadntdone so when targeted in the past.

The mayor who said efforts to in-crease social integration would be a cen-tral pillar of his term added: We mustheal the rifts. We are a country literally

split. Youve seen both sides expressingthings during the campaign they proba-bly wish they hadnt. I recognise and re-spect the verdict of the British public. Imnot going demonise or call those whovoted to leave xenophobes or racists they voted that way for, in their minds,legitimate reasons. Weve got to bringpeople together and its important wedo so sooner rather than later.

He pointed out that the area of Eng-land with the highest level of immigra-tion saw the most overwhelming remainvote. Let me say loud and clear to themillion or so Europeans in our city: you

are welcome. We recognise the hugecontribution you make to our societyand that wont change.

The iftar doubled as a celebration ofthe relationship between the SomaliBravenese Welfare Association and theshul, which began three years ago whenthe latter provided a base for the formerafter an arson attack on its centre. Forthe last three Ramadans, the shul hashosted prayers and well as an iftarevent, featuring Jewish songs and read-ings from the Koran.

Khan told the gathering on Sundaynight, attended by London Assemblymember Andrew Dismore and MuslimCouncil of Britain head Shuja Shafi, of hispride at the story of friendship. Peo-ple talk about Jo Coxs maiden speech when she spoke about the fact weve got

more in common than divides us thisexemplifies what she was talking about,he said. Its the story of hospitality thatthe Torah teaches. People who arent ofan organised faith sometimes say thoseof faith dont practise what they preach they certainly do here. I tell the storieswhenever I speak to mayors from othercountries who ask for advice about inter-faith relations.He added: Thank youfor making me a mayor who can boastabout my city. Thank you for being thelight in these dark, dark times.

Asma Mohamed Ali, a key memberof the Somali Bravanese community,

said she may never have visited a shulor learnt about the many similarities be-tween Islam and Judaism if not for thetragic backdrop.

We hope next year well get ournew centre and well open our doors tomembers of the Jewish community theway they have done for us, said themother of five, who said she is de-lighted her children also have the op-portunity to learn about another faith.

Among them is Sharifa, eight, whofired question after question at thecommunitys Rabbi Miriam Berger asshe showed her and other young Mus-lim visitors a Torah scroll. The youngsterdescribed the crash course as a high-light of her visit and said she would betelling her friends at school about meet-ing the rabbi and Sadiq Khan.

Asked if he sees the shul as the Wel-fare Associations second home, chair-man Abubakar Ali, said: I call this ourhome. Our children come here and theparents greet each other at school.Members of Finchley Reform teach ourchildren. The communities want to worktogether and we need to build moreopportunities to meet.

For Sahibzada Syed Lakhte Has-sanain, chairman of the charity MuslimHands which sponsored the ifar food it was the very first time in a syna-gogue. He said he was very happy to

be present. If Muslims and Jewtogether we can give a good mto the communities.

Rabbi Berger, who was descKhan as the coolest rabbi, event was part of a long journrelationship thats been buildinfew years. But after this past wseeing quite how fractured sothat the voice of hate and fear ivasive, its important this is not alationship but an embedded omeans we can heal each other that feel so devastating.

Chief and Archbishophelp Sadiq break fast

Mayor anxious over Brexit impact on communal tie

Rabbi Miriam Berger shows two Muslim children a synagogue Torah scroll


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UK NEWSUK NEWSNEWS

THE CO-OWNER of a childrens summercamp whose phone was found with nakedimages of girls aged three and four hasbeen handed down a 24-month jail sen-tence suspended for two years.

Ben Lewis, 26, co-owner of LL Campsin Bushey, Herts, had also videoed andphotographed up the skirt of a nine-year-old girl whom he was supposed to be tu-toring for her maths SATS, the courtheard. When he was investigated by thepolice, a pair of childs knickers werefound next to one of his laptops.

Lewis, who admitted three counts ofmaking (downloading) indecent imagesand one of taking indecent images, wassentenced on Tuesday at St AlbansCrown Court, and has spent the equiva-lent of 14 months in custody on remandand on a tagged curfew.

Prosecutor Ann Evans said Lewis, ofLullington Garth, Borehamwood, hadused the TOR Browser on a laptop, whichallowed him to access the internet anony-mously and for the viewing history to beautomatically deleted.

Lewis was arrested after giving hisiPhone and PIN to Sandra Vicente, a campstaff member, so she could play music ata childrens party on 1 August last year.

When the party finished, another col-league, Mohammed Ramli, asked to seephotographs Lewis had taken of him afew days previously on the phone. Afterlooking at those, Vicente clicked on thedeleted images folder.

Giving evidence at the trial of Lewisbusiness partner, Tal Landsman, 26, lastmonth, Vicente said: I was just nosey. I

looked at the deleted items. First I saw chil-dren on a beach. They were not wearinganything. Then I saw pictures that had beentaken in a changing room. I saw childrens[private parts]. I would say they were aged

three to four. I felt my brain was polluted.She said that the next day, Lewis, thecamps designated safeguarding officer,spoke to her at work. He said: There issomething disgusting on my phone. Idont know how it got there, she said.

Three days later, she reported him tothe police after he came to her with athree-year-old girl who he said he hadfound in the toilets and had wet herself.

At that point I put my foot down...I went home from work and called thepolice, she said.

Among the deleted files on the phonewas a self-recorded image of a nakedLewis in the woods, she said.

The prosecutor said: The police inter-rogated all of Ben Lewis many electronicdevices. Chat logs, indecent images andvideos have been recovered from severalof his devices going back a number ofyears and found in his room by one ofhis old laptops was a pair of childs knick-ers, which he tried to explain away asbeing his brothers, who was 22 at thetime of the search. Then he said it was hismothers who did the washing.

The iPhone images had been deletedbefore the phone was seized by the policeand it had been restored to its factorysettings. Once the phone had been re-stored, searches had been made, includ-ing: indecent images lawyer, deleteiCloud account and iPhone deleting

recently deleted photos.Searches had also been made on an

iPod touch, which included: Can a sexoffender go to the USA?, accidentaldownloading child porn and how do

police search computers?Chat logs found on an iPad next toLewis bed showed conversations be-tween 27 December 2013 and 16 Octo-ber 2014 involving sexual exploitation andabuse of children. On an Acer laptop,there was a bookmark linked to a websitecalled Lolita City. Two videos, which weregraded as indecent in Category A and B,were also found on the laptop. A pro-gramme called CCleaner had also beeninstalled on the laptop, allowing for thesecure deletion of sensitive files.

On a Nexus tablet found in a car therewere four indecent images and one inde-cent movie. Evans said: These were whatare called first generation images and hadbeen taken by the person holding thedevice.

The subject of this indecent movie wasa young girl whom Ben Lewis had beenprivately tutoring in maths at her homeaddress. This young girl would sit at thefar end of the kitchen with Ben Lewis whileher mother prepared dinner at the otherend of the room.

Her mother specifically recalls beingannoyed as she noticed that this defen-dant had his iPad and phone with him andwas constantly fiddling with one or theother. The film of the young girl that wasfound on this device concentrates on fo-cusing on her private parts.

Jeremy Dein QC, defending Lewis,

said: He has lost his employment andhas no savings and no income. Hewants to get married, have childrenand put all this behind him.

Having spent three months on

remand and a further eight monthson a qualifying curfew, means thatLewis has served the equivalent ofa 14-month sentence.

He has completed an onlinecourse by Stop It Now, a charityaimed at preventing child sexualabuse and must attend up to 100 dayson a Community Sex Offender Pro-gramme and attend up to 60 days of arehabilitation requirement.

The judge made a Sexual Harm Preven-tion Order banning him from working withchildren and having unsupervised con-tact with children, unless that isagreed by social serv-ices. He must alsoregister as a sex of-fender indefinitelyand pay 3,000prosecution costs.

Landsman, ofAdmiral Drive,Stevenage, wascleared of a childcruelty charge.

He had beenaccused of fail-ing to report thediscovery of theimages on Lewisphone.

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ART EXPERTShave accused Ger-man authorities of a cover-upafter research shows that they

gave Nazi-looted art to thedescendants of the high-rankingNazis who looted it, rather thanits rightful Jewish owners.

The London-based Commis-sion for Looted Art in Europe(CLAE), representing the family ofthe late Gottlieb and MathildeKraus of Vienna, said Old Masterspaintings were sold for "paltrysums" to close friends of Hitler inwhat they describe as a remark-able scandal.

The arts ultimate post-wardestination was discovered bythe Kraus family, who were tryingto recover 160 looted paintings,and who had thought two of theirfamilys paintings would be in thestate-owned museum in Munich,after records showed that theywere handed over to Bavaria bythe United States in 1952 for thepurpose of restitution.

However, they now know that10 years later, the state of Bavariainstead gave View of a DutchSquare by Jan van der Heyden toHenriette Hoffmann-von Schirach,the daughter of Hitlers closefriend and photographer, Hein-rich Hoffmann, and wife of thenotorious Gauleiter of Vienna,Baldur von Schirach, who was

found guilty at Nuremberg fordeporting 60,000 Austrian Jews.

In 1963, a year after being buy-ing the painting for what CLAEdescribe as the paltry sumof 300 Marks, Hoffmann-vonSchirach sold it to the statemuseum for 16,100 Marks.

It seems Bavaria thought resti-tution meant restitution to theNazis rather than to their victims,said CLAE co-chair Anne Webber.

Von Schirachs family wereamong several high-ranking Nazifamilies lobbying for the retrievalof the art, some of it looted, andoften negotiated directly with thedirector of the Bavarian StateMuseums and Bavarian ministers,

CLAE said.While their demands were

dealt with promptly and effi-ciently, with little requirement toprove their claims of ownership,the looted families had theirclaims thrown out, or impossiblehurdles created to prevent themrecovering their artworks, saidWebber.

There must be a full account-ing of these shameful transac-tions with high-ranking Nazis andthe way they have been hidden,said the CLAE. Without totaltransparency and accountability,the victims of the Nazi lootingwill continue to be denied longoverdue justice.

German soldiers pictured in Rome in 1944 with a stolen painting

A BREAST CANCER charitylaunched this week in memory ofa mum-of-three who succumbedto the disease, writes RebeccaPinnington.

Rosie Choueka died in Junelast year aged 38, after losing herbattle against breast cancer. In her

memory, around 200 friends andfamily together with celebritypatron Peter Capaldi launchedthe charity Second1st on Tuesdaynight at Bristows, the central Lon-don law firm where Rosie worked.

Trustee Craig Fisher, who is incharge of fundraising for Sec-ond1st, said he was pleased bythe encouraging response tothe charity so far. Weve had

some lovely feedback and I thinkthe medical patrons weve at-tracted can put us on the map asa credible, respectable charity.

The charity raised more than25,000 ahead of its officiallaunch, and is partnered withBreast Cancer Now to channel

money into research. This willfund Professor Andrew Tutt at theInstitute of Cancer Research, whois developing new drugs to pre-vent aggressive forms of cancerreturning and developing intosecondary breast cancer.

Fisher added: Currently notenough research is being doneinto secondary breast cancer, butwe can change that.

Rosie wrote about heences in a blog, Fighting

See www secondary st o

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING com-munity in the Israeli city of Ne-tanya has thanked a Jewishman from London, after histenth fundraising effort re-sulted in a tenth ambulance foremergency service Magen

David Adom.Norman Rosenbaum, with

whom Jewish News has previ-ously fundraised, helpedorganise support for the life-saving vehicle among his com-munity of Cockfosters andNorth Southgate Synagogue.

His daughter Eleanor said:I am exceptionally proud ofmy father who, over the past12 years, has single-handedly

raised money for 10 MDA am-bulances for Israel. He hasmade a monumental differ-ence.

Tributes were alsto the Wolfson Founwhich acted as a major utor of funding for thambulance.

The timing of the ption was poignant, com

days after two Netanyawere sent to Tel Aviv the wounded after the attack at a Sarona restaurant earlier this during which four peop

The ambulance wsented in memory of thson family of Lodz, PoAllen and Sheila Rowhose children MaMichelle represented t

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A CHALLENGE by a Jewishrights organisation over the le-gality of local council boycottson Israeli goods produced onthe West Bank has been dis-missed by the High Court.

Jewish Human Rights Watch(JHRW) asked for a ruling that

the councils, in passing theboycott resolutions, breachedequality law duties and failedto have regard to the need toeliminate discrimination andharassment of Jewish people,or the need to foster good re-lations between Jewish andnon-Jewish people.

Lawyers for Leicester CityCouncil, Swansea City Counciland Gwynedd Council said thecase was misconceived andhad been brought becauseJHRW wants to stop local au-thorities debating Israels ac-tions.

In London on Tuesday, LordJustice Simon and Mr JusticeFlaux dismissed the claims,

saying they failed in reeach of the councilsanalysis of the facts aapplicable legal princip

Lawyers for the threeities stressed the bwere in reality not affecprocurement of goo

services and were nthan symbolic expresconcern over Israeli including the blockadeand the illegal approprWest Bank land.

Andrew Sharland, reing the councils, addmembers were simply ing their right to freedopression.

But lawyers for JHRWby Jewish and non-Jewfessionals to combat antism in the UK, arguboycott resolutions sented unlawful policbreached the Local ment Act 1988 and the Act 2010.

A JEWISH STUDENT has re-ceived an apology and paymentof 1,000 from the University of

York Students Union after com-plaining of anti-Semitism.

Law student Zachary Confino,

21, was offered the four-figuresum after two years battling anti-Semitism from students whilestudying at the university.

It is understood Confino, whonarrowly missed out on a first-class degree and had sufferedwith stress, had been raciallyabused and bullied.

The university confirmed thatConfino had accepted the writ-ten apology from its studentsunion following the complaint.

A spokesperson for the Uni-

versity of York said it had actedas a mediator to resolve the mat-ter and that it welcomed stu-dents from all backgrounds,faiths and nationalities.

The statement said: The Uni-versity of York acted as mediatorto resolve a long-running com-plaint brought by a studentagainst the University of YorkStudents Union. This involved

an apology by the StudentsUnion to the student and atoken payment of 1,000.

The statement added that jointstatements had been signed withboth the Jewish Society and theIslamic Society on campus.

It continued: The university iscommitted to preserving theright to freedom of expressionwhile also combating anti-Semi-tism, Islamophobia and any otherform of race hate.

We welcome students from all

backgrounds, faiths and national-ities in our diverse community.

Jonathan Sacerdoti, directorof communications at the Cam-paign Against Antisemitism,praised Confinos incredible

strength and dedication butsaid the unions apology andpayment of compensation wasnot enough.

In the House of Lords on Mon-day, Lord Leigh of Hurley askedwhat steps the government wastaking to counter anti-Semitismon campus. He also asked for as-surance that it cannot be rightthat British Jewish students inuniversities should be intimi-dated by overaggressive anti-Is-rael activity on their campuses.

Student gets anti-Semitism apology

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JEWISH COMMUNITYgrandeeSir Trevor Chinn has becomethe new president of theMovement for Reform Ju-daism, while the finance chiefof a family-run costumier hasbecome its new chair.

The changes were madeduring MRJs annual generalmeeting, with Chinns appoint-ment unanimously approved.

He takesover from RabTony Bayfield, who after five years, and wscribed as instrumeMRJs development .

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A NEW WEBSITE called IsraelHate Watch has been launchedin the UK, for Israel campaignersto share experiences abouttheir encounters with boycottersand those who oppose Israel forpolitical reasons.

The initiative, launched lastweek, is led by grassroots groupWe Believe in Israel, which says itaims to provide opportunitiesfor people to engage in con-structive dialogue and conversa-tion about Israel.

We Believe in Israel directorLuke Akehurst said pro-Israel

campaigners faced a new real-ity, where the tone and tactics ofpeople who dislike Israel has be-come increasingly unpleasantand bullying.

He added that this goes be-yond campaigning and be-comes an attack on Israels rightto exist and the right of the Jew-ish people to self-determination.

Examples of activity that maybe shared on IHW include boy-cotters targeting supermarketproduce, disrupting Israeli per-formances or refusing to debateor host Israeli academics.

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ISRAEL HASa new and influentialally after a six-year severance ofties between Jerusalem andTurkey ended in an agreement toresume contact and cooperation.

Following extensive negotia-

tions, the two regional powersagreed terms, including a $20mil-lion compensation fund for vic-tims of the Israeli commando raidon Turkish aid workers sailing to-wards Gaza in 2010, which leftnine dead.

In turn, Turkeys rulers haveagreed to help convince Hamas

in Gaza to repatriatetwo Israeli nationalsand the bodies ofIsraeli soldiersOron Shaul and

H a d a r Goldin,w h ow e r eki l led

in the 2014 conflict.Officials in Ankara had origi-

nally demanded that any resump-tion in ties between Israeland Turkey would be dependenton Israel lifting its blockade ofGaza, but this condition appearsto have been dropped, with acompromise agreed.

Under the deal, finalised inRome last weekend, Turkey will

help rebuild key infrastructure inGaza, with material enteringthrough the port of Ashdod for a200-bed hospital, a power stationand a desalinisation plant, to helpease the Strips twin water and en-ergy crises.

Turkey will also be allowed tosupport major projects in theWest Bank, including the indus-trial zone in Jenin. Both the Pales-

tinian Authority and Hamas havereportedly welcomed the agree-ment.

Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu announced the newsafter meeting US Secretary of

State John Kerry, who first pushedthe two former allies towards rec-onciliation two years ago.

Both Israel and Turkey stand togain from resumed ties. Along-side all the diplomatic, securityand military benefits, Israel hopesAnkara will become an importantenergy client once its gas fields inthe Mediterranean are fully har-nessed.

Turkey could also prove to bea useful intelligence partner,in particular providing Israelwith a deeper understandingabout armed groups in Syria, andpotentially brokering a long-termceasefire in Gaza, by way of con-fidence-building measures.

POLITICIANS IN Vilnius havepassed a law making it easier for

the descendents of Litvak Jewsto become citizens. The legisla-tion ends a rule that precludedthose whose families left whenLithuania was independent,from 1919 to 1940. An esti-mated 95 percent of Litvak Jewswere killed in the Holocaust.

Lithuania

RIO DE JANEIROS Jewish fed-eration has sued a left-wingnews service for distributing anarticle blaming this years coupagainst president Dilma Rousseffon Zionists. The article inVermelho said Israeli proxieswere now in charge of defence,intelligence and the central bankafter Rousseffs suspension.

Brazil

A TORAH SCROLL found in anattic and mistaken for an oldSlavonic church record hasbeen donated to a museum inPoland. Curators identified thescroll after it was found in a pileof wallpaper rolls at the top ofthe home in the western city ofZielona Gora. It is not knownhow it came to be there.

Poland

ISRAELI AGENCIES thicontinued their support

small, land-locked Southican state of Paraguay, ding drip irrigation systehelp farmers. Paraguaydent fostered good reby refusing to condemnover Gaza in 2014, at odhis Latin American neigh

Paraguay

LEADERS OF the 9,000Jewish community of Venezuela have certifieauthenticity of a 200-ymikvah (ritual bath) foundrestoration work on a mthree years ago. Heritageers say they expect tmore artefacts unearthedcoming weeks.

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FOUR ORTHODOX businessmen have berested in a growing scandal in the US. Jeremyberg and associates are to have paid New York pfavours, including the cloa tunnel for visiting Russian billionaire Lev according to court docum

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AMERICAN AND European Jew-ish leaders have criticised Pales-tinian President Mahmoud Abbasafter he told the European Parlia-ment that worldwide terror wouldcome to an end once the Israelioccupation was over.

Once the occupation ends,terrorism will disappear, there willbe no more terrorism in the Mid-dle East, or anywhere else in the

world, he said, toapplause.

Advocates fromthe American Jew-ish Committee (AJC)in New York andheads of the Euro-pean Jewish Con-gress in Brusselswere quick to de-nounce the speech,

in which Abbas re-peated an allegedplan by rabbis to poi-son Palestinian wells.

AJC chief executiveDavid Harris said thePalestinian leadersmalicious attack con-tradicts any attempthe made to verballyoffer a hand for

peace, noting Abbas refusal tomeet Israeli president ReuvenRivlin during his visit.

EJC chief Moshe Kantor said:In one short speech, Abbas re-minded the world that he has nointerest in peace, continues to in-cite against Jews and Israel anduses the understandable fear ofterrorism to rail against Israel andscore political points.

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SPECIAL REPORT: 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENTEBBE RESCUE

After 40 years, Israels daring raid on En-tebbe, Uganda, and its rescue of almost100 hostages, has become the stuff of

myth and legend. And that is not least becausethe only IDF soldier who died was Yoni Ne-tanyahu, elder brother of the man who is todayIsraels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

But this years landmark anniversary has

brought back all kinds of memories, some stillvery painful, for those who were in Entebbe on4 July 1976. Among them is the former para-trooper Noam Tamir, today chief executive of aUK healthcare company, but then a 21-year-oldkibbutznik and the youngest officer to take partin the Entebbe operation.

Tamir, who was born and brought up on Kib-butz Kfar Ruppin in the north of Israel, had agood start to his army career: after a battery ofmental and physical tests he opted for one ofthe elite squads attached to the infantrybrigade. Men from these three squads Say-eret Golani (Tamirs unit), Sayeret Matkal andSayeret Tzanhanim with their superior train-ing (and, incidentally, better food than the restof the army) provided the 200-strong forcesent to Entebbe.

On 27 June 1976, an Air France plane with248 passengers was hijacked by two members

of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales-tine (PFLP) and two members of the GermanRevolutionary Cells. The flight was en route toParis from Tel Aviv, but was diverted first toAthens.

On board the flight was a young woman fromManchester, Patricia Martell, going home to sitshiva for her mother, Pearl Hyman. Desperate to

make the shiva Mrs Martell, who had been mar-ried for just six weeks, and was a nurse, fakedthe symptoms of a miscarriage and the hijackerslet her off the plane at Benghazi, in Libya, be-fore it continued to Uganda. Mrs Martells de-briefing by Mossad operatives in Benghazisaved many lives, says Noam Tamir, as she wasable to tell the Israelis much about the hijackers.

But there was still much that they did notknow. We heard, vaguely, on the radio thatthere had been a hijacking, recalled NoamTamir, but when on Thursday [1 July] we weretold there was a mission for which we wereneeded, we didnt know what we were going todo. Some buses came and took us to a base inthe middle of the country where no one couldget in or out, it was in lockdown.

For two frantic days, while the Israeli cabinetargued internally about what to do, Tamir andhis fellow soldiers did their best to simulate what

they hoped to do when they got to Entebbe,using as a model lines in the sand to repre-sent airport buildings. And the first dress re-hearsal, remembers Tamir wryly, didnt go wellat all.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was initiallyagainst a military option, visited the closed

base. Tamir, as an officer, was able to attplanning meetings. People ask, why wesquads sent to Entebbe, why not just oanswer is, the risk was so high, if we wcovered en route by, for example, the

tians, we ran the risk of having an entirwiped out. This way we balanced thingsAccording to Professor Saul David, w

year published an authoritative accounEntebbe operation, Rabin and his defenister, Shimon Peres, should have been together. But these fierce political rivathat week 27 June to 4 July 1976 ding on strategy. Rabin wanted to give iterrorists demands the exchange of hfor 40 Palestinian extremists if theremilitary option; Peres thought that wocourage more terror.

Rabin gave in, and authorised theafter the terrorists extension of their defrom 1-4 July gave Israeli militaryenough time to come up with a viable p

Noam Tamir paints a terrifying picturHercules plane in which he and the othesoldiers made their outward journey. Wobliged to fly so low that it was inbumpy and we all vomited, every one o

Every member of the team had beenspecific task. Tamirs team was a back-upIn case the first force [led by Yoni Netdid not manage to kill all the terrorists, wto be the second wave, kill the hijackthen evacuate the hostages into our placules 4.

To assist them, Tamir and Netanyaeach given a new secret communicativice. I was to land and make contact wto see if they needed us or not. But whetried to make contact, there was no ans

Yoni Netanyahu had a lready been shotjured by Ugandan troops.

At first Tamirs team did not know whathere was shooting all around them awere unsure whether to advance or not. went in and started pulling the hostaghelping them to walk and putting themplane. Also on the plane was thewounded Netanyahu, as doctors worke

cally to try to save him. There were othon the flight, too: three hostages, Jean-Mimouni, Pasco Cohen and Ida Borocwere killed in the cross-fire between theand Ugandan soldiers, Mimouni in particcause he stood up despite yells of getfrom Israeli rescuers.

After a nine-hour flight back to Israeand his crew were taken off the planes aitary airbase before the welcome arrivalGurion for the hostages. And for 20 ysays, they were prevented from talkinthe details of this astonishing rescue op

Instead, they went straight back to tas the echoes of the raid on Entebbe reated around the world. Noam Tamir, who is a governor of the University, will discuss the Entebbe oper13 July at a private event for the legacyof the British Friends of the Hebrew Uni

Israelis celebrate the safe return of all but four of the Air France passengers from Uganda in July 1976

The IDFs action plan for the daring airport rescue

Jenni Frazer speaks to former paratrooper Noam Tam

one of the heroes of Israels audacious raid on Entebb

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OPINION: RABBI MIRIAM BERGER AND MARK MAIERPINION PHIL ROSENBERG

WITH THE sensational events of the Brexit vote andturmoil in both the Conservative and Labour par-ties, you could have been forgiven for forgettingthat Shami Chakrabarti is set to publish her eagerlyanticipated anti-Semitism inquiry today. In advanceof the reports release, Ive highlighed five state-ments Labour must robustly challenge if it is to betaken seriously as an anti-racist party.

1. Hitler supported ZionismThis is the sort of history that has got Ken Living-stone into all sorts of trouble. And rightly so. First,it is nottrue. Writing in 1925 in Mein Kampf, Hitlersaid Zionism would not so much create a state asa central organisation for their [the Jews] interna-tional world cheating. This is hardly support. The1933 Transfer (or Haavara) Agreement is not proofof collusion. The agreement allowed Nazi Germany

to get around a global Jewish boycott, but it meantthat around 60,000 Jews were able to leave NaziGermany. To say that this is some evidence ofcommon cause would be like saying that payinga ransom to save a hostage is evidence that thehostage-taker supports the victims family. Ken Liv-ingstone seems hell-bent on giving pseudo-intel-lectual justification for anti-Semitism.

2. Anti-Semitism allegations are all just ways of at-tacking supporters of the Palestinians.There is all the difference in the world between sup-

porting the Palestinians and indulging in crude anti-Semitic stereotypes, talking about Jewish conspir-acies, celebrating the Holocaust or supportingterrorism against Jews. Luton councillor AysegulGurbuz called Hitler the greatest man in history.Kensington and Chelsea councillor BeinazirLasharie was suspended for saying Jews were be-hind 9/11 and Islamic State. There have been atleast two dozen suspensions from the Labour Partybecause of people doing things like the above, notfrom just supporting the Palestinians. It has to stop.

3. Anti-Semitism allegations are just Tories or em-bittered old Blairites attacking CorbynJeremy Corbyn cant be blamed for examplesbeing found which predated his leadership. Butfor an anti-racist party, the main problem cant bethat people are finding these examples, it should

be that they were there to find in the first place.If the party is to stop suspicions about the decayof its moral compass, nobody should be satisfiedwith just calling themselves anti-racist. Individ-uals have to act in an anti-racist way as well.

4. People reporting anti-Semitism should be pun-ished as traitors to Labours cause.A new website, calling itself Free Speech on Israel,is promoting motions at local Labour brancheswhich ask Labour to call to order people whoraise concerns about anti-Semitism. This is very

dangerous. In no civilised movement should peo-ple reporting abuse be subject to this kind of sus-picion or victimisation. This is true for domesticabuseand it is true for racist abuse. Labour needsto create a safe space for reports of abuse to comeforward. Of course, such allegations need to be in-vestigated fairly and transparently, but nobody canallow a culture which deters the reporting of abuse.

5. Anti-Semitism applies to all semitic peoples.Why should Jews have exclusive ownership?This is curious and pernicious. Curious because thephrase anti-Semitism was coined by Wilhelm Marrin 1879 to refer precisely to his hatred of Jews, soit is simply a fact that anti-Semitism does refer tohatred of Jews and not others. Pernicious becausethis is almost always brought up in response to al-legations of anti-Semitism in a way that seems de-

signed to bury the issue. Lets be clear: racismagainst Jews, Muslims, Arabs or anyone else isequally unacceptable, but they all take slightly dif-ferent forms. To tackle anti-Semitism is not to denyracism against others. We must not allow a culturewhich denies the problem, punishes victims orgives permission to prejudice. Only when Labourhas fought these sentiments, can it fully reclaim itsmantle as a proudly anti-racist party.

Phil Rosenberg is director of public affairs at theBoard of Deputies. He writes in a personal capacity.

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OPINION JUSTIN COHEN AND JEREMY HAVARDI

LAST WEEK the UK electorate voted by a slen-der majority to withdraw from the EuropeanUnion. Already, the recriminations have startedagainst those who dared to defy the Europeanelite and much of the British political class.

Despite some nasty elements of xenopho-bia in UKIPs campaign, Leave supporters havebeen collectively tarnished by association,with accusations of racism, intolerance andbigotry. Many are puzzled at how the EU, aNobel Prize-winning bastion of multicultural-ism and progressive values could suffer suchan irreversible body blow at the hands of theBritish people.

On the same day as the referendum,

the European Parliament hosted MahmoudAbbas. During his speech, the Palestinianleader blamed Israel for the recent upsurge ofterrorism that had killed dozens of civilians.The absence of a two-state solution, he said,gave a pretext to those who commit terrorismin the name of religion. He continued: Oncethis occupation ends, those pretexts will dis-appear and there will be no more terrorism inthe Middle East nor elsewhere in the world.

The idea that Israeli occupation breedsglobal terror is an egregious falsehood. World-wide Islamist terrorism has an ideology andrhythm all of its own. It is driven by a fanaticaldesire to re-establish a caliphate and imposeSharia law in every facet of social and eco-nomic life. Islamists believe that secular states,values and practices are inherently corrupt andun-Islamic and must therefore be destroyed to

bring on their dystopian future.Israel is but one of many barriers to the

caliphate and it will be hated, regardless ofwhether it occupies the West Bank. Moreover,Palestinian terrorism has often increased in theabsence of occupation, most noticeably in theupsurge of murderous violence from Gaza after2005 that has so blighted Israeli communities.In any case, Abbas rejected the chance to cre-ate a Palestinian state in 2008, just as his pred-ecessor, Yasser Arafat, had done in 2000-1.

Abbas falsehoods continued. The PA chiefaccused rabbis in Israel of telling their govern-ment to poison Palestinian water supplies inorder to murder the innocent. Isnt that clear

incitement, he said, to commit mass killingsagainst the Palestinian people? According toofficials in the PA, a Rabbi Mlma, chairman ofthe Council of Rabbis in the West Bank settle-ments, had issued the call. But no such rabbicould be found and there was no rabbinicorganisation by that name.

The PA leaders remarks, later retracted,were justly condemned as a blood libelreminiscent of those that have surfaced so reg-ularly throughout Jewish history.

But the damage was done, as various mediaoutlets led with the allegation.

So how did MEPs respond to these asser-tions? Did they stamp their feet in protestor stage a walk out? Did they threaten torescind funding for the PA if such hate speechwas repeated? No, these alleged bastionsof tolerance and anti-racism gave Abbas a

standing ovation.A man who had repeated one of the most

pernicious tropes of anti-Semitism, about howJews were poisoning their neighbours watersupplies, was feted as a hero rather thantreated like a racist pariah. But many of thosesame parliamentarians would have lamentedthe xenophobic Brexit vote only hours later.

Now, it is obviously true that Europes loveaffair with Palestinian radicalism is not themost relevant reason to quit the EU.

There were a host of more pertinent reasonsfor withdrawal: a desire for more democracy,sovereignty and self-government, long-termeconomic considerations and an aversion to

federalism. But this outrageous indulgence forAbbas, and the continued funding of his PA,shatters the illusion that European institutionshave some monopoly on virtue or progressivevalues.

After all, this is the same EU that carved outa sordid refugee deal with Turkeys RecepTayyip Erdogan despite, the Turkish presidentdeclaring that democracy, freedom and therule of law were of no value. It also paid offformer Libyan Prime Minister MuammarGaddafi to prevent Libyan migrants reachingEurope. In both cases, the Eurocats turned ablind eye to the abuses and excesses of thesedictators. But in the case of the PA, it openlyindulges an anti-Semitic dictatorship.

It may be worth remembering all of thisthe next time a Eurosceptic is accused ofpandering to bigotry.

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European Parliament exaltedAbbas on EU referendum day

AS DAVID Cameron said in his resignation speech,the EU referendum was far bigger than any onepolitician. As the markets plummeted amidquestions over Britains future relationship with itsbiggest trading partner, the decision to leave is thestart of a process, the result of which even the mostardent Brexiteer cannot guarantee. The first, sec-ond and third things in the new prime ministers intray will be to negotiate the best deal for Britainsexit of the EU and entry into uncharted territory.

But for Britains Jewish community, this is nev-ertheless a moment to reflect on a premiershipthat will be remembered alongside that of Mar-garet Thatcher and Tony Blair for its warmth to-wards Anglo-Jewry and Israel. While communalorganisations stayed clear of the Brexit debate,statements of appreciation for Cameron haventbeen hard to come by.

His time in Downing Street coincided with ter-ror attacks on Jews in Toulouse, Brussels andParis and unprecedented unease in the commu-nity here in the wake of the Gaza conflict. ButCameron repeatedly demonstrated he under-stood the threat faced by world Jewry and,moreover, that demonisation of Jews and theJewish state could often be seen as the first signof extremism that threatens wider society.

It was his government that funded guards atJewish schools as one of its first acts in officeand added an extra 11million of security fund-

ing last year. Gerald Ronson a man who knowsa thing or two about tackling hate said then:After a lifetime of fighting anti-Semitism, Ivenever seen such a level of support.

His admiration for survivors of the Holocaust andpersonal commitment to ensuring the horrors arenot forgotten were given practical expression in hisHolocaust Commission. The new national memorialand state-of-the-art learning centre in the heart ofWestminster will be, as the Holocaust EducationalTrust pointed out, his legacy, even if he will now notbe attending its opening as prime minister.

The outgoing PM has become one of Israelsgreatest international friends, perhaps the greatestafter Canadas Stephen Harper was given hismarching orders in that countrys election last year.But it was a rocky start as far as Israels supporterswere concerned when he described Gaza as a

prison camp, and failed to once mention Hamas,in a speech in Ankara during his first summer in thejob. However, he quickly did what his predecessorhad promised by changing the law of universal

jurisdiction to prevent it being exploited to arrestIsraeli officials and other foreign visitors.

But it was his stance during the conflict betweenIsrael and Hamas in 2014 a position criticised bythe opposition and some on his own side thatmeans he will be remembered as an all-weatherfriend. So, too, his position on boycotts includingon countering boycott, divestment and sanctions

movements from councils and public bodies, evenif this boiled down to reiterating existing guide-lines rather than banning boycotts.

With hours until last weeks vote, a buoyantsounding Cameron even kept a date to addressJewish Cares annual dinner. It now seems a fittingmeasure of the cross-party appreciation of his sup-port that it was Lord Levy, a Labour peer, who ledthe plaudits to the Conservative leader that night.The appreciation was mutual, with Cameron sayingJewish functions were among the most patriotic hehas attended and hailing the charity as the very def-inition of the Big Society he championed. Alsopresent was outgoing Tory chairman Lord Feldman,who has also played a role in ensuring the commu-nitys concerns are understood in government.

Many will now be questioning whetherCameron should ever have conceded this referen-

dum; whether a vote he believed could end insuch catastrophic consequences should it go thewrong way was worth the risk.

Even those who backed remain must nowhope the Brexiteers were right all along; that al-though the immediate signs were less than reas-suring, what was dubbed Project Fear was justthat and nothing more.

Its not easy to look beyond the seismic eventsof the past few days. But whatever your views onthe issue that will define his leadership, our com-munity has much to be thankful to Cameron for.

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the keys to the defence ministry will bestudied in future decades as the ultimateact of friendly fire in peacetime. AvigdorLieberman could scarcely believe his lucklast month when he became politicalmaster of the IDF. To him, the dream ofwar is never far away. A fourth operationin Gaza is inevitable, just as a thirdLebanon war is inevitable, he said lastyear. If it be willed, so will it be done.

He shows no signs of mellowing withage. On the subject of Gaza, where warcan most easily be made, he told ArmyRadio in 2013 that Israel needs to seri-ously consider conquering the Strip andcarry out a thorough cleansing. Whathe meant by thorough cleansing isunclear, and no less chilling for being so.

The same could be said of his 2009comments at Bar-Ilan University, whenhe appeared to advocate the use ofnuclear weapons. We must break thewill of Hamas to keep fighting Wemust fight Hamas just like the US didwith Japan in WWII. Cue the shudder.

In Lebanon, Lieberman says contain-ing Hezbollah is not enough, and lastyear called for a non-proportionalresponse to an isolated attack.

Dismissive of rules such as thosegoverning military conduct, he appearssimply to disregard them.

Sure, hell be constrained by the secu-

rity cabinet, and sure, this is a uniquecountry, which has had to fight to survive(calling someone a hawk in Israel is likecalling someone religious in the Vatican).

But Lieberman, who advocatesbeheading militant Palestinians with anaxe, is no mere hawk. He is to the regionwhat the velociraptor was to JurassicPark. Its an apt analogy: his law is thatof the jungle, which says that, ifattacked, you hit your enemy so hard henever again dreams of attacking you.

Unfortunately, thats been Israelsmodus operandi for decades, and isconsistently slammed by friends andfoes alike for the excessive suffering itinflicts on civilians. Now hes in the posi-tion to step it up a notch or three. ForAvigdor, hundreds of dead children inGaza wasnt enough. For those leftdefending Israel abroad, it may soon be.

BUT...WHAT IF hes right? What if Israels mili-tary operations to-date have been lessfinal than they need to be? Clearly, Israelspast actions left both Hamas andHezbollah intact. Didnt George Bush(Snr) do the same with Saddam Husseins

Baath Party in Iraq the first time round?Didnt he live to regret it? Likewise inAfghanistan, where the U.S. military haswithdrawn, and where the Talibanthrives? If you dont remove the wholetumour, whats left regrows.

Theres a famous scene in The WestWing when Martin Sheens President

Bartlett asks his military chiefs what is thevirtue of a proportional response. Theyrestumped. The chiefs ask what else isthere. A disproportional response, hesays. Let the word ring forth that if youkill even one American, we dont comeback with a proportional response. Wecome back with total disaster.

That's Lieberman's plan. Thwould go nuts, but Israels ewould be annihilated, and thowerent would shelve any plans faggression. The regions rulerespond only to power, would metake careful note as to who wnext door.

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NEWS IN BRIEFBNAI BRITHS NEW PRESIDENT

Bnai Brith announced its newnational president at its AGM heldat ORT House. Alan Miller willreplace the outgoing Eve Swabe,and becomes the first member ofthe Cheshire Unity Lodge tobecome national president and thefirst Mancunian to hold theprestigious position for 35 years.

BUSHEYS NEW RABBINIC DUOBushey & District United Synagogueappointed Rabbi Elchonon and

Rebbetzin Jacqueline Feldman asits new senior rabbinic couple. Theywill start their posts in November.Bushey US chairman, StephenRoston, said: Im delighted thecommunity has overwhelminglyendorsed rabbi and rebbetzenFeldman. Im sure they will enjoyas much success here as they havedone in their previous positionsand the community looks forwardto welcoming them later this year.

STEP BY STEPS SHABBATONMore than 30 children andteenagers at Step by Step

participated in an extendedShabbaton at the LincolnsfieldCentre in Bushey. The three-dayevent began with them enjoyinga trip to the ice r ink, a treasure huntand visit to a farm on Shabbat,before a carnival on Sunday, whichalso included Uncle Doovys ice-cream and a trip to Oxygentrampolining centre.

JGSGBS NEW APPOINTMENTSDr Anthony Joseph has beenelected as president emeritus ofthe Jewish Genealogical Society ofGreat Britain. The appointment was

made following its AGM, duringwhich David Jacobs was named aspresident, Doreen Berger and AnneWebber as vice-presidents, withLeigh Dworkin as chairman. Thesociety also announced that ithas received a copy of TheGabbai Book of the Bristol HebrewCongregation from an anonymousdonor, dating from the early half ofthe 19th century.

Gefiltefest, Europes biggest Jewish food festival, returned to JW3 last weekend. A star-studdedline-up included guest sous chef Emma Spitzer from MasterChef 2015 and Israels MasterChefwinner of 2014, Dr Nof Atamna Ismaeel. The festival consisted of more than 40 interactive sessand demonstrations, workshops and debates, plus Europes biggest kosher pop-up food marke

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Watford United Synagogues Rabbi Levinepresided at the official opening of the newAll Aboard charity shops head office toaffix a mezuzah. The charity recentlyrelocated to the town.

World Jewish Reliefs Paul Anticonicelebrated 10 years at the helm of theJewish communitys humanitarian agency

Nearly 200 women, includingRebbetzin Valerie Mirvis, attended theUS Womens annual dinner at EdgwareUnited Synagogue.

Camp Simcha provided respite for 54mothers when it held its annual spa day.The charity supports families copingwith serious childhood illnesses.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, RabbiMendel Lew, Gena Turgel MBE and DStephanie Shirley were among more330 people who attended a gala dinto mark the 70th anniversary of Stanmand Canons Park Synagogue.

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US Chesed held its first Care for USconference for current and newvolunteers. The event included a keynoteaddress from mayor of Barnet, councillorDavid Longstaff. US president StephenPack said: This conference has been allabout helping our volunteers increasetheir skills so they can best help ourmembers when times get tough.

Young Jewish Care ensured 60 young people received tips on the latest bigtrends in exercise and nutrition

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