British Labour MP Alex Sobel has known as on Samuel Hayek, the chairman the Jewish Nationwide Fund (JNF UK), to resign or be faraway from workplace for offensive anti-Muslim remarks.
Chatting with the Jerusalem Post in early December, Hayek stated Jews ought to begin planning to depart Britain as a result of “Jews who’re unable to guard their belongings, Jews being discriminated in opposition to badly is one thing that might fairly simply occur – that’s occurring.”
Hayek claimed one of many causes for the rise of anti-Semitism within the UK is shifting demographic patterns and that Muslim immigration threatens the way forward for Jews within the UK and Europe as complete.
“I’m not in opposition to any minority or in opposition to Muslims within the UK or Europe, however in opposition to anybody who spreads hatred that harms Jews,” Hayek stated; including, “That’s how I see the close to future evolving.”
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The JNF official’s remarks have been extensively condemned throughout the non secular divide.
Alex Sobel, the MP for Leeds North West, has known as for Hayek’s instant resignation or elimination from workplace.
A Jewish News report quoted Sobel as saying: “If this does not occur then the Charity Fee should examine.”
In a associated matter Hayek additionally instructed the Jerusalem Submit that “Jews really feel extra comfy that [former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn] didn’t win. However the underlying points haven’t gone away.”
“Let’s assume that Corbyn would have change into prime minister,” Hayek stated. “Everyone knows our lives would have modified with out recognition.”
Though some Jewish officers from the Board of Deputies and Union of Jewish College students have distanced themselves from Hayek’s remarks, it stays to be seen what measures the JNF will take in opposition to Hayek. Its patrons embrace former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
