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You were never my Chief Rabbi, bruv
DAVID ROSENBERG takes issue with Jonathan Sacks’s attack on Jeremy Corbyn and the former’s position on human rights
Former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
THERE is a queue of people waiting patiently in line: long-forgotten Labour and Conservative figures, one-time respected journalists who have gone sour, barely repentant former racists and warmongers.
On Tuesday, former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks reached the front. It was his turn to put the boot in to Jeremy Corbyn, as the crude attempt to weaken and isolate Labour’s leader continues, and Theresa May is surely pondering a snap election.
In a New Statesman interview — well, platform, really: interviewers are supposed to probe and challenge — Rabbi Sacks thundered: “The recently disclosed remarks by Corbyn are the most offensive statement made by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 Rivers of Blood speech.”
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