Sir Keir met Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis and other members of the community at Kenton United Synagogue in north-west London on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Before the meeting, Saul Taylor, the president of the United Synagogue, an umbrella group which includes the one visited by the prime minister, said there was a lot of anger in the Jewish community with the government. <\/p>\n
“There’s been so much that’s been dragging,” he said, urging the government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).<\/p>\n
“I don’t know what they’re waiting for.”<\/p>\n
He said synagogues were spending enormous amounts of money on security guards, saying one spends \u00a320,000 a month. <\/p>\n
He called it a “tax on being Jewish in Britain”.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir said “the use of proxies in this country is a growing concern and a real concern”, and the UK must “deal with malign state actors”.<\/p>\n
“It’s very important this particular context, because I’m increasingly concerned that a number of countries are using proxies for attacks in this country.”<\/p>\n
He said the government would bring forward legislation “as quickly as possible” to proscribe the IRGC. Other European countries have already done so.<\/p>\n
Before the 2024 general election Labour had promised to proscribe it and has faced criticism that it has not yet happened. Other groups like the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been proscribed. <\/p>\n
Last year, the government’s independent reviewer of terror legislation said new laws were needed to tackle state-run organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir met Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis and other members of the community at Kenton United Synagogue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-547319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}