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Jeremy Corbyn spoke in front of the supporters of the Labor Party this Tuesday, November 26, 2019. REUTERS / Henry Nicholls

In the midst of the legislative campaign, the UK's chief rabbi blamed Jeremy Corbyn for his inability to eliminate the " poison " of anti-Semitism.

With our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix

This Tuesday, November 26 was to allow the launch with fanfare of the special program of Labor against racial and religious discrimination if he won the vote on December 12. Instead, Jeremy Corbyn spent the day defending his own management of a problem that has undermined the party since the leader's arrival.

In a column published by The Times , the chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis accused the Labor leadership of " letting a new poison take root in the party that leaves the British Jews in deep anxiety ." And the religious leader concludes that Jeremy Corbyn is " unfit to govern ."

Johnson brocaded by the Council of British Muslims

The Labor leader has for years been accused of complacency over the anti-Semitic remarks of some Labor members. He was forced to defend himself by assuring his activists that " anti-Semitism is despicable and unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any form by a Labor government ". Several MPs and sympathizers Labor of Jewish confession, victims of insults and threats, reproach him thus to let the problem continue while hundreds of cases of abuse were reported to the leadership of the party.

For its part the conservative Boris Johnson has tried to recover this attack to his advantage by condemning the lack of leadership of his opponent Labor on this problem. But the Prime Minister also quickly found himself in the sights of the Council of British Muslims who, for its part, denounced the creeping Islamophobia in the Conservative party.