Writing in The Jewish Chronicle in November 2018 about antisemitism in the Labour Party, Marie van der Zyl said, “Over the summer, we showed how we could keep this issue of antisemitism on the front pages day after day, week after week, exacting a severe political and reputational cost for continued failure.”[27] In 2019, following Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to resign as leader of the Labour Party, the Board asked candidates for the leadership to sign up to ten pledges in order to “end the antisemitism crisis”. The pledges included a resolution of outstanding disciplinary cases, lifetime membership bans for some individuals, an independent disciplinary process, full and unconditional adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, and engagement with the mainstream Jewish community. Most of the candidates for leader or deputy leader signed up unconditionally.[28][29]
He doesn’t want to get Corbyn’d