(Jewish News) JNF UK has been censured by the Board of Deputies over its failure to “disavow” the “inflammatory and bigoted remarks” of its chair Samuel Hayek after a heated debate during Sunday’s plenary.
Two-thirds of deputies voted in favour of a resolution tabled by Joel Rosen in response to remarks made to Jewish News by Hayek, who claims Jews have no future in the UK as a result of Muslim immigration.
Board President Marie van der Zyl confirmed the result was 64 percent in favour and 36 percent against.
The resolution noted how, when the JNF chair was asked to clarify his [re]marks, he told Jewish News there were problems with Muslim immigrants because they “don’t speak English” and how in Islam there was “no term for peace.”
