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Joan Ryan MP urges Labour leader to take ‘immediate and urgent’ action to tackle antisemitism in party

Posted 26 April, 2016 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
The Chair of LFI, Joan Ryan MP, has today written to Jeremy Corbyn following comments by Labour MP Naz Shah: Dear Jeremy, I was extremely disturbed to read this morning the reported comments by Naz Shah. They highlight once again a highly offensive and totally unacceptable discourse which is currently apparent in the party.…

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Labour Party’s antisemitism allegations inquiry

Posted 3 March, 2016 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
Labour inquiry attacked over cover-up concerns - by Marcus Dysch for the Jewish Chronicle, March 3, 2016 - This article is available here. Probe by students into hate claims goes unpublished as party calls in senior peer A new investigation ordered by the Labour Party will attempt to resolve claims against left-leaning students at Oxford University. But Jewish groups…

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Joan Ryan MP writes to Labour General Secretary over antisemitism allegations inquiry

Posted 2 March, 2016 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
Today Joan Ryan MP, Chair of LFI, wrote to Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol over concerns about the party's inquiry into antisemitism allegations at Oxford University Labour Club: Dear Iain Further to our conversation on Monday evening, I write to express again my deep concern about the nature of the inquiry that has been set up into the allegation of…

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Is UK funding Palestinian incitement? Joan Ryan MP challenges PM David Cameron

Posted 18 February, 2016 in Antisemitism, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Click here for the original letter to Cameron on PA funding. Article by Sandy Rashty for the Jewish Chronicle. Article available here British taxpayers’ money cannot be used to provide a “blank cheque” to the Palestinian Authority, a Labour MP has said. Joan Ryan, Labour Friends of Israel chair, said she was “disturbed” that the PA…

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Decision by university’s Labour society to support Israeli Apartheid Week prompts MPs to call for party to sever ties with club

Posted 17 February, 2016 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Read the original article from the Guardian here. Labour opens inquiry into antisemitism allegations at Oxford student club, by Mark Tran for the Guardian, 17 February 2016 The Labour party’s national student organisation has launched an inquiry into allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at Oxford University Labour Club. Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, who was…

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Joan Ryan MP writes to Grahame Morris MP, Chair of LFPME about an event in parliament with controversial speaker Abdel Bari Atwan

Posted 29 January, 2016 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
Click here to read the original letter Read the JC's article here Dear Grahame, I believe that you are planning to host an event in parliament next Tuesday, which Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East are promoting, at which Abdel Bari Atwan will be the moderator. I am not sure if you are aware,…

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Labour parliamentarians write to Corbyn, call for NEC to reverse G4S boycott

Posted 3 December, 2015 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour parliamentarians have written to Jeremy Corbyn this week urging him to join them in persuading the NEC to overturn its decision to boycott G4S. Following an unscheduled intervention by UNITE political director Jennie Formby, the party’s governing body last month voted to bar G4S from providing security at Labour’s annual conference because of the company’s…

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