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Labour members call for inquiry into Israeli meddling
Israeli diplomat Shai Masot was exposed last year boasting to Joan Ryan (pictured) about having access to Israeli funding in order to take Labour MPs to Israel

LABOUR members and supporters have called on general secretary Jennie Formby to launch an urgent investigation into Israeli interference in the party.

In a letter seen by the Star, signatories accuse the Israeli government of undertaking a fierce propaganda campaign against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The letter says that an inquiry is even more urgent now that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has waded into the anti-semitism row, falsely accusing Mr Corbyn of comparing Israel to nazis and laying a wreath at a terrorist's grave.

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