UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (File photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
"Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party has 'radicalised' some members so they are now publicly attacking Israel and Jews, according to a report.
A dossier submitted to an official inquiry reveals how a series of Labour members became 'obsessed' with Israel after Mr Corbyn's election.
In one case a party member who made no public Facebook comments about Israel before the leadership campaign is now posting more than 300 times per year on the issue, including a claim that 'Zionists ... bankrolled Hitler ... all for one goal [,] Israel.'
One user who has since shared a post referring to Dame Margaret Hodge, the Jewish Labour MP, as a 'Rothschild Zionist millionaire', said that she had been posting content relating to Israel 'since I heard Jeremy Corbyn speak of the atrocities [in Gaza]'.
The 200-page dossier also shows how 'hard-core anti-Semites' joined Labour as a result of Mr Corbyn's election in September 2015 and that since Mr Corbyn's leadership there has been a sharp spike in the use of 'Zionist' - often used as a term of anti-Semitic abuse - on online Labour discussion groups.
It was compiled by David Collier, the investigator who revealed Mr Corbyn's posts in Palestine Live, a Facebook group containing anti-Semitic messages. The report, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, was submitted to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is investigating allegations of anti-Semitism within Labour..."