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3 June 2010updated 12 Oct 2023 10:22am

Jewish leaders condemn the English Defence League

They accuse the far-right group of “bigotry” and “Islamophobia”.

By Daniel Trilling

The Jewish Chronicle reports that the English Defence League has established a Jewish division. The far right, anti-Islam protest group, whose violent nature was exposed by the Guardian last week (and covered by the NS here), has professed support for Israel in the past and is now urging British Jews to “lead the counter-jihad fight in England”.

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