Jews and non-Jews alike converged from across the UK for a national demonstration outside Labour Party Head Office organised by Campaign Against Antisemitism.

Stewards estimated the crowd size at over 2,000 people who braved relentless rain to fill the streets surrounding Labour Party Head Office. At one point, police had to turn protesters away due to lack of space. Groups came from Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, York and other parts of the UK.

In impassioned speeches, actress Maureen Lipman CBE, Holocaust-survivor Agnes Grunwald Spier MBE, and Rabbi Joseph Dweck demanded that the Labour Party accept and enforce Campaign Against Antisemitism’s disciplinary complaint against Jeremy Corbyn for bringing Labour into disrepute, warning that inaction was itself a form of action.

Campaign Against Antisemitism Chairman, Gideon Falter, Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman, and Head of Political and Government Investigations, Joseph Glasman, read a roll call of incidents shaming the Labour Party as hundreds of those attending signed forms backing Campaign Against Antisemitism’s disciplinary complaint against Mr Corbyn.

When we asked the crowd whether they wished to return if the Labour Party has not progressed the complaint within a month, we were answered with a chorus of “Yes” from the more than 2,000 Jews and non-Jews, many of them former Labour members. The date was set for May 13th.

The demonstration was widely covered in the media which reported that the demonstration marked an escalation of Labour’s antisemitism crisis.

CAA’s Director of Investigations and Enforcement @SSilvUK: “A period of economic hardship, the desire to lay the blame at someone else’s door, and a populist movement driven by a small band of thugs, have brought the oldest hatred out of the shadows and back into the light.” pic.twitter.com/hiiUdAWPOf

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) April 9, 2018

Maureen Lipman CBE tells yesterday’s CAA demonstration: “If @JeremyCorbyn is anti-racist, and I believe he thinks he is, he will have been given pause for thought when he heard the words of the Haggaddah: ‘In every generation there are those who rise up and seek to destroy us.’” pic.twitter.com/Jvi3JOLXtm

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) April 9, 2018

Powerful orator Rabbi @RJDweck inspired the crowd to overcome the odds and take our freedom: “It is time to speak. it is time to stand. It is time to fight for our freedom, for our strength and for our peace. Hatred no more.” pic.twitter.com/yDo94be07U

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) April 9, 2018

Source: Campaign Against Anti-Semitsm UK