Miliband says 'we must do more' to call out antisemitism

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Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says he disagrees with chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis who said sanctions on the West Bank could bolster extremists to attack the UK's Jewish community, saying "there are many British Jews who will support what we did". Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I don't agree with the chief rabbi. I have great respect for the chief rabbi, but I speak as a

00:05British Jew myself.

00:06I think there are many British Jews who will support what we did yesterday, and I said very clearly in

00:13my statement

00:13something which I think all of us must have at the front of our minds, which is holding British Jews

00:19or Jews anywhere

00:20responsible for the actions of the Israeli government is anti-Semitism, pure and simple.

00:25We must all call it out, and we must all do more as a society and a government on anti

00:30-Semitism.

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