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Maurice and Sir Ben Helfgott
My Dad, Ben, was one of “The Boys” – 732 survivors of the Holocaust who were brought to the UK after the Shoah in 1945. If it wasn’t for World Jewish Relief – the British Jewish organisation that conceived, funded and delivered that programme for child orphan refugees – he, me and my brothers and our children wouldn’t be here today. So, it’s particularly poignant for me to have been invited this week to succeed the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Dan Rosenfield, as Chairman of that very organisation which today, inspired by its incredible history, works to actively combat poverty and disadvantage in the Jewish community and far beyond.
At the end of November Joshua Leifer, an Associate Editor of
Jewish Currents [
JC], wrote an article about the “tragedy” of Jeremy Corbyn. He did not seek the opinions of any Jewish victims of the “antisemitism” witchhunt in the Labour Party. As the first Jewish member of the party to be expelled I submitted a response.
At first I was simply ignored and after a reminder, Arielle Angel, Editor-in-chief, explained that it was a lack of resources that prevented them publishing my reply.
JC “simply do not have the bandwidth to publish full response articles to articles we’ve published”. So I am publishing my response here.