Board of Deputies member quits in protest over Gaza ‘genocidal assault’
A member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews has resigned over what he described as the failure of its leaders to explicitly criticise “the Israeli government’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza”.
Speaking at a board meeting on Sunday, Daniel Grossman said he had lost confidence in the leadership of the board, a representative body made up of elected members from synagogues and Jewish organisations that describes itself as “the voice of the British Jewish Community”.
He said recent meetings between board leaders and Israeli ministers and officials, including foreign minister Gideon Saar, were “both untenable and morally bankrupt”.
Grossman, a deputy for the Union of Jewish Students who is studying at the University of Bristol, said board leaders had “both failed to act ethically and also to represent the increasing diversity of opinion” over Gaza within Jewish communities.
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