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(JTA) — The head of the Jewish Labour Movement in Britain accused the Labour Party leadership of failing to deal with “a vast backlog” of complaints about anti-Semitism in the party ranks.

Jeremy Newmark, the national chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, on Saturday night also accused the party of letting a second investigation into former London Mayor Ken Livingstone to get “stuck in the system,” ahead of local elections in May. Livingstone’s two-year suspension from a previous investigation into his anti-Semitic comments, including that the Nazis were Zionists, ends in April.

“We will be closely monitoring the outcomes of a number of high-profile cases due to be determined by the national constitutional committee over the weeks ahead,” Newmark told the daily newspaper the Observer, in comments that were widely reported.

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His comments came as unnamed sources in the party told the newspaper that party activists were planning legal action against the party for failing to act on complaints about anti-Semitic incidents and behaviors. Some of the complaints are at least six months old.

Meanwhile, a member of the Labour Party’s national executive committee is under fire for a tweet claiming there is a “Jewish conspiracy” against party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Darren Williams, who ran Corbyn’s leadership campaigns in Wales, “liked” a tweet by Mike Hamblett, who describes himself as an eco-warrior. The tweet attacked the GnasherJew Twitter account, which calls out anti-Semitic social media activity by Labour Party leaders and members.

In a statement, Williams defended himself against accusations of anti-Semitism, and said he feared “certain individuals” misuse accusations of anti-Semitism to target “those who are merely voicing legitimate criticisms of the Israeli state,” the Jewish Chronicle reported.

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