A ‘pro-Israel’ UK Labour Party candidate and close ally of leader Kier Starmer has allegedly been the subject of an antisemitism complaint after footage resurfaced in which appears to criticise non-Zionist Jews in the UK. Luke Akehurst was appointed Labour’s candidate for North Durham in northern England and serves as a director of the We Believe in Israel campaign group, which pushes Zionism as a movement for the “self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland, the State of Israel”. Akehurst’s appointment caused a stir among some Labour members who have voiced…