“Over recent years, we have seen repeatedly that when rhetoric towards Israel escalates, hostility towards Jews is never far behind,” he said. Shadow ministers and Labour MPs have urged the government to heed the Chief Rabbi’s advice and are calling on Andy Burnham not to push ahead with new anti-Israel measures. The timing of the move has also come under fire, with concerns it could coincide with Rosh Hashanah, precede the Israeli Knesset elections and fall around the yahrzeit of the Yom Kippur terror attack on Heaton Park synagogue. The shul’s Rabbi Daniel Walker said this week that British Jews...