Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Emma Barnett on Wednesday, Most Rev Justin Welby was first asked about his response to the Chief Rabbi’s comments, where Ephraim Mirvis said many Jews are scared of a Labour Government.
The Archbishop repeated the support he gave the Chief Rabbi online, saying: “Obviously I know him quite well and when you look at his article, he talks about it being one of the most painful decisions he’s ever had to take and I know that’s true. His instincts, like mine and others, are that during an election you keep schtum, you say nothing. And a lot of people in the Jewish community were saying ‘you’ve got to speak’ and he felt that there was no choice.”
When asked if Jeremy Corbyn should say sorry over anti-Semitism, the Archbishop replied: “I can’t comment on him and we’re in an election period, I’m not going to comment on individuals. I think one of the things we’ve learned in the Church of England is that repentance, which is a sort of technical churchy kind of word, means both acknowledging where things have gone wrong but also changing course and action. All parties and all parts of our society have this profound history of anti-Semitism going back hundreds and hundreds of years, in which the church has also been caught up scandalously, appallingly.
“What we published last week was about saying ‘we have to acknowledge our own guilt’ and…
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