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In Brief: British public strongly backs Israel’s right to self-defence

Posted 4 June, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism
Tel Aviv city hall as Union Jack (Oren Rozen, CC BY-SA 4.0). A poll commissioned by the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) has found that the British public strongly backs Israel’s right to defend itself and feels deep sympathy for British Jews in the recent wave of antisemitic incidents. Some 55 percent of respondents said they believed Israel…

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Analysis: Israel-Gaza conflict drags on as ceasefire looms

Posted 21 May, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
 Iron Dome intercepts rockets from Gaza. Credit: Nehemia Gershuni, www.NGPhoto.biz, CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza has continued over the past week, with more than 3,750 rockets fired into Israel by Hamas and other terrorist groups and some 2,000 strikes against terrorist targets in Gaza. What happened Conflict began with low-level violence in…

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LFI and CFI chairs: End the myth there’s no link between extreme anti-Zionism and Jew-hate

Posted 20 May, 2021 in Antisemitism, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, News, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0. Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP and Conservative Friends of Israel chair Stephen Crabb have written the below op-ed for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. LFI chair Steve McCabe and CFI chair Stephen Crabb put aside political difference to condemn rising antisemitism…

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David Evans holds first meeting with Eran Harmoni, Israeli Labor Secretary General

Posted 19 April, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
General Secretary of the UK Labour Party, David Evans, has met with his counterpart, Eran Harmoni, Secretary General of the Israeli Labor Party. LFI Chair Steve McCabe MP joined the meeting.    It was the first meeting between the two General Secretaries of the sister parties in over four years, and the first…

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In Brief: Keir Starmer holds call with Israeli Labor leader Merav Michaeli

Posted 26 March, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party
Merav Michaeli. Photo: Ron Kedmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons UK Labour leader Keir Starmer held a phone call with Merav Michaeli, leader of Israel’s Labor Party, last weekend. Days before Israelis went to the polls for the fourth time in two years, Starmer wished Michaeli – elected to lead Labour in January 2021 – luck…

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LFI officers speak in Holocaust Memorial Day Debate

Posted 3 February, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and LFI Parliamentary Officers took part in a debate marking Holocaust Memorial Day in the House of Commons on Thursday 28 January. This annual debate is an opportunity for Parliamentarians from across the House to unite in remembering the victims, honouring survivors, and remembering where antisemitism, racism and hate can…

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In Brief: Top Trump appointee accused of antisemitic remarks about Israel

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Antisemitism
Col. Douglas Macgregor. Photo: BMG-2048, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A newly appointed adviser to the US secretary of defence has been accused of making antisemitic remarks after suggesting that American politicians become “very very rich” by supporting Israel. Douglas Macgregor, a retired army colonel, has been given the post of adviser to Donald Trump’s acting…

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LFI Director Michael Rubin Participates in Podcast on the EHRC Report

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
LFI Director Michael Rubin was a guest on the Progressive Britain Podcast which discussed the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party. Michael joined in a discussion with North West Jewish Labour Movement chair, Dena Ryness, Progress director Nathan Yeowell and Progress Campaign Assistant Frankie Grant. For the last five years, Jewish Labour members had been…

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Analysis: After the EHRC: Labour must tackle anti-Zionist antisemitism

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party
Sir Keir Starmer. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Keir Starmer’s response to last week’s report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission represents an important and major step forward in the challenge of rooting out the scourge of antisemitism from the Labour party. The findings of the EHRC’s investigation were both clear and…

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In Brief: Report reveals Corbyn tried to save Livingstone

Posted 16 September, 2020 in Antisemitism, Labour Party
Photo by Annette Boutellier, CC BY-SA 2.0, Via Wikipedia Commons Jeremy Corbyn directed aides to get Ken Livingstone back into Labour, reports the Jewish Chronicle. In a special enquiry by Panama journalist John Ware, sources revealed two senior leaders’ staff were tasked with organising the former Mayor of London’s re-admittance into the party, coming after his…

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