A new report by Mainstream – a campaign group led by Labour defector Ian Austin – claims to have highlighted ten candidates standing for the Labour Party who have displayed blatant anti-Semitism. These range from the candidates allegedly accusing politicians of having “Zionist slave masters agendas” to saying Israel were “acting like the Nazis”.

Last week, Mr Corbyn claimed during ITV’s leadership debate that: “Anti-Semitism is an absolute evil and scourge within our society.

“I have taken action in my party, where anyone who has committed any antisemitic acts or made any antisemitic statements, they are either suspended or expelled from the party and we’ve investigated every single case.

“We do take this very, very seriously indeed.”

Yet, the Labour leader has consistently been undermined by former members of his party.

Dame Louis Ellman, who resigned in October after serving as MP for Liverpool Riverside for over 20 years, said that despite Mr Cobyn’s rhetoric, “the facts show otherwise”.

She said: “A number of Labour parliamentary candidates have now been exposed for their hurtful remarks against Jewish people, or for spreading vile conspiracy theories.

“Jewish members like me have been driven out.

“If the party is to regain any credibility as an anti-racist party it must immediately suspend all candidates who have breached IHRA guidelines.

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“That is the least it can do to recognise the depths to which it has plunged.”

Mr Austin, chairman of Mainstream, who left Labour earlier this year, last month announced in a video that those who usually vote for Labour should this general election vote for the Conservatives and Boris Johnson.

He said: “Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell repeatedly say that anti-Jewish racism inside Labour has been exaggerated, and that everything possible is being done to remove it.

“These findings prove that this is a simple lie.

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“Corbyn and McDonnell have let Labour become a home for racists. When the Conservatives have identified people alleged to have made anti-Jewish statements, they have swiftly blocked them from standing.

“Labour must withdraw its support for these candidates immediately.”

Among the ten includes Alana Bates who is standing in St Ives, also member of a “radical alternative rock” group who recorded a song calling for the destruction of Israel.

Aspana Begum, who is standing in Poplar and Limehouse, accused the University of Tel Aviv of “offering scholarships to students for spreading Zionist propaganda” after the outfit awarded a prize to Tony Blair in 2014.

Standing in Peterborough, Lisa Forbes in 2018 signed a letter to the Labour NEC opposing the party adopting the international definition of anti-Semitism as it would prevent people from being able to say that Israel is a racist endeavour.

Rebecca Jenkins who is standing in Redditch defended an anti-Semitic mural which showed men with hooked noses sitting around a Monopoly board on the backs of the oppressed; superimposing the words “hear hear” and “All we gotta do is stand up and it’s game over” over the picture.

Manchester Gorton’s Labour candidate, Afzal Khan, shared a Facebook post referring to an “Israel-British-Swiss- Rothschilds crime syndicate” and “mass murdering Rothschilds Israeli mafia criminal liars”.

Kate Linnegar in North Swindon liked a post in 2016 linking to an article called “How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis.”

Ali Milani, who is hoping to push the Prime Minister out of his safe seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, has previously said that Israel has “no right to exist” and was “built on ethnic cleansing”.

In west Wales, Ceredigion, Dinah Mulholland also signed a letter objecting to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism.

Zarah Sultana who is standing in Coventry South has written about supporting “violent resistance” by Palestinians in their struggle against Israel – which has saw nearly 10,000 Palestinians die since 2011.

The final Labour candidate named, Louise Wibberley who is standing in Totnes, engaged in a Facebook post alleging that “the Israeli state is proven to be interfering in UK politics far beyond anything convenient scapegoat Russia is allegedly doing, but nobody wants to risk upsetting them because they are judged to be so powerful.”

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