BOURNEMOUTH council plans to "reiterate" its hostility to anti-Semitism at a meeting this week.

According to the agenda for the full council meeting on Wednesday, Councillor Pat Oakley will move that "in view of the recent publicity directed at the Labour Party regarding anti-Semitism, this council confirms and reiterates its zero tolerance of any and all such discrimination toward any and all ethnic and religious minorities".

A year ago the borough voted to adopt a 'definition' of anti-Semitism laid out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance –which could enable the authority to ban certain anti-Israel events

At that time, Rabbi Maurice Michaels of Bournemouth Reform Synagogue told the Echo the town was a welcoming place for Jews, although nevertheless there had been some instances of abuse.

"There are always going to be some people around who just don't like the 'other', but that is a situation we have to live with," he said.

Last month former Labour councillor Ben Grower, an honourary alderman of the council, said he had encountered anti-Semitism in his party throughout his 46 year membership, although Dorset Labour Party chairman Damien Stone later wrote to members describing attacks against the party and current leader Jeremy Corbyn on this basis were "unfounded slurs".