Tens of thousands of people marched through London on Sunday at a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism group amid rising antisemitism levels in the country.

Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) thanked the participants, but noted that the ruling Labour party had not sent an official representative as other parties had, calling it a “scandalous absence.”

Labour had not replied to an invitation to do so for weeks, until it offered on Thursday to send “a backbench peer,” said the CAA. “As this came at the last minute and did not fulfil our requirement for a representative of the Government—let alone a high-ranking official with a relevant portfolio—we could not accommodate this suggestion,” the group added.

Labour claimed to the CAA that “it is not the government’s p

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