Hackney Green council meeting where Jews were told they must condemn the ‘genocide’ to fight antisemitism

Apart from a brief period without overall control from 1998-2002, Hackney has always been a Labour council. The Green councillors filed in giddy with excitement. There was another roar of approval, from the public gallery, while downstairs her fellow Green councillors were on their feet applauding. Now it will go through the performance of an official report, a request for a response from Haifa’s mayor, before a majority Green committee have the final say, surely to wave it through. But for most Jews in the room – except perhaps Schechter – it heralded an unwelcome landmark for British Jews.