Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments, made during an army radio podcast interview, where he referred to the UK as an “Islamic Republic” must be rejected by British Jewish communal leadership unequivocally.
We welcome the strong leadership shown by Progressive Judaism, and we echo their statement that Prime Minister Netanyahu “does not speak for British Jews”.
We can’t allow Netanyahu to spread hateful and divisive rhetoric against British Muslims nor to use Jewish communities in his cynical election campaign. We hope to see others in our community speaking out against these comments loudly and clearly.