THE co-chairwoman of left-wing group Jewish Voice for Labour, Jenny Manson, has resigned from the Labour Party after 60 years of membership.

Ms Manson, who first joined the party in 1965 and served as a Labour councillor in  Barnet from 1986 to 1990, issued a statement denouncing the party over its failure to recognise the genocide in Gaza or to take any action against the full scale of Israel’s war crimes. 

She said that it was impossible to support a party that had “abandoned all ethical standards and betrayed the vulnerable.”

“I am the daughter of a refugee. The Labour Cabinet demonises refugees and all other immigrants, and feeds xenophobia, racism and intolerance,” she added.

Ms Manson will appear at an event titled “The wrong sort of Jews…are right” hosted by Your Show, in Liverpool on September 30, during the Labour conference.