Adam Langleben, at The Blogs

Sep 26, 2018, 6:19 PM

This conference confirmed Labour’s obsessive stand

Delegates wave Palestinian flags at the Labour Party's annual conference. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire via Jewish News)

The journey to Liverpool for the start of Labour Party conference marked the end of the worst year in the history of the Jewish community’s relationship with the party –one in which Jews took to the streets of Manchester and London to declare, Enough is...

Jul 18, 2018, 4:44 PM

Tackling Labour’s institutional anti-Semitism can’t be done by the Party

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (left) and his shadow cabinet at the Labour Party annual conference

Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

In May following the election I attended a meeting of the NEC Antisemitism Working Group at Labour HQ on behalf of the Jewish Labour Movement. The first time, I was left outside and refused entry to the meeting, giving me my first impression they weren’t...

May 2, 2018, 4:25 PM

Backing Labour in Barnet is vote for party’s health and soul

Over recent weeks I have struggled, really struggled, with questions from friends and neighbours about whether the Labour Party is the place for me and my political beliefs. Whether Labour is still true to its founding principles of equality, social justice and human rights. So...

Jun 17, 2017, 4:53 PM

Repairing our communities

The test of a good society is how you look after the elderly, the frail, the vulnerable, the poorest in our society – so said David Cameron in 2010. But the absolute tragedy that has hit the residents and the community of Grenfell Tower in...

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Adam Langleben is a former Labour Councillor in the London Borough of Barnet and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Jewish Labour Movement.

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