"A veteran UK Labour Party Jewish lawmaker quit the party Wednesday, saying unacceptable anti-Semitism had been allowed to flourish under leader Jeremy Corbyn, who she denounced as being unfit to become prime minister.
Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman announced in a letter her resignation from the party she had been a member of for 55 years.
Ellman, 73, has been a prominent critic of the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations and of Corbyn.
'I believe that Jeremy Corbyn would be a danger to the country, a danger to the Jewish community as well, but a danger to the country too,' she told the Times newspaper.
In the resignation letter, Ellman wrote she is 'deeply troubled' by the increase in anti-Semitism and that she could no longer support voting Labour when it risks Corbyn being becoming prime minister.
'I believe that Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to serve as our prime minister,' wrote Ellman who has been member of parliament for the party since 1997.
'Corbyn, who spent three decades on the back-benches consorting with, and never confronting, anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and terrorists - has attracted the support of too many anti-Semites,' she wrote.
'Jewish members have been bullied, abused and driven out. Antisemites have felt comfortable and vile conspiracy theories have been propagated,' she wrote. 'A party that permits anti-Jewish racism to flourish cannot be called an anti-racist party.'..."