Jewish Groups Raise Anti-Semitism Concerns Ahead of NDP MP’s Chat With Corbyn

Then-Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives at an event at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London on April 23, 2018. AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file

OTTAWA—Two prominent Jewish advocacy groups are voicing concerns about anti-Semitism ahead of a public conversation between NDP MP Niki Ashton and former U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The planned livestream talk risks pulling New Democrats in a direction “antithetical” to Canadian values, said Shimon Fogel, head of the Toronto-based Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, in a joint statement with the Board of Deputies of British Jews.