A Jewish Momentum official has quit his post after witnessing “more antisemitism in the last week” than during eight years as a party member.

Joshua Garfield, 23, a youth officer on the steering committee of Newham Momentum, in east London, resigned from the branch last night. He said that he had felt “unsafe” and “untrusted” as a Jewish member of the committee in recent days after the row erupted over antisemitism in Labour.

The Labour council candidate said that he could not work alongside people who sought to “silence the legitimate concerns of Jewish Labour members” or who remained “silent in the face of blatant racism”.

While he felt training on antisemitism could help some Momentum members, he added: “I don’t believe it would