The Board of Guardians of British Jews is to issue an edict to withdraw all support for the Labour Party following Wednesday’s anti-Semitic attack by Labour’s self-styled suited and booted brigade on an 82-year-old Jewish man at its annual conference.

“We were shocked by the scene when Walter Wolfgang said ‘nonsense’ during Jack Straw’s speech and was hurled out. What the Labour Party failed to realise was that Mr Wolfgang was speaking in Yiddish and ‘nonsense’ actually means, ’speak up’,” said Board president Harry Greenberg. “Mr Wolfgang is a senior citizen who could not hear what was being said and only commented in Yiddish, his first language to ask Mr Straw to talk a bit louder.”

Until the Board gets a personal apology from the Labour Party attack on the whole Jewish community, it will issue a rabbinical edict which will be led by joint chief Rabbis Sir Jonathan Sacks of the Unity Movement and Rabbi Beryl Cohen of the Independent Synagogue Society.

“Our first withdrawal will be Lord Levy who will refuse to offer any help in fundraising for the Labour Party,” Mr Greenberg said. “We have also called on Peter Mandelson to work part-time and go on a work slow protest.”

The Board of Guardians is also calling on the Labour Party to be committed to equal understanding of languages and to treat Yiddish like it treats other languages.

“Had Mr Wolfgang said it in French or Italian, I doubt very much if he would have been thrown out, but just because he said it in Yiddish, everyone took it as meaning something else,” Mr Greenberg. “We call on the Labour Party to now include Yiddish in all its forms of communication.”