The foreign editor at the Jewish News is understood to have taken personal leave from the newspaper after describing its coverage of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party as “repulsive” in an interview.

The Jewish News, together with Jewish Chronicle and Jewish Telegraph, warned last month that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn represented an “existential threat to Jewish life” in the UK if he came to power in a joint front-page editorial that ran across all three titles.

The papers’ have criticised Corbyn’s failure to address allegations of anti-Semitism within his party, although Labour has said it “poses no threat of any kind whatsoever to Jewish people”.