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British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been warned by his own MPs that the ongoing failure to tackle high-profile cases of Jew-hate could leave the party seeming “institutionally antisemitic,” The Jewish Chronicle reported on Monday. Corbyn was asked to reveal details of Labour’s disciplinary process that deals with allegations...

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The British Labour Party has been slammed for readmitting an official a day before Holocaust Remembrance Day, who was suspended last year for writing on social media that he no longer had “respect and empathy for the Jewish community,” The Jewish Chronicle reported on Sunday. Jim Sheridan, who represented the constituency...

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Game of Thrones star Laura Pradelska has disabled comments on her Instagram account after receiving a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse, for which her “skin wasn’t thick enough,” Jewish News reported on Monday. Pradelska told BBC Radio 5 Live that most of the abuse relates to the Nazi Holocaust and her...

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Last week, people gathered across the country to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who joined 200 Holocaust survivors at a service in Westminster, shared a photo of himself on social media signing the Holocaust Educational Trust’s book of commitment, saying: “Let us never allow antisemitism or any other...

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The United States Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on two private airline companies for allegedly aiding Iran, including transferring weapons and troops from Tehran into Syria, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Action was also taken against two Syria-based, Iran-backed militias consisting mostly of foreign nationals from Afghan and Pakistani...

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Israel has warned Ireland that the advancement of “hypocritical and anti-Semitic” pro-boycott legislation will have serious repercussions for the relationship between the two countries, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Irish Ambassador to Israel Alison Kelly was given an “angry rebuke” over what Israel’s Foreign Ministry described as a “scandalous”...

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