British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt defended on Thursday his country’s decision to ban the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah in its entirety, calling the distinction between the group’s political and military wing an “illusion.” “The British Government will not entertain the illusion that Hizballah can be cleanly divided into political and...

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The British and Danish governments announced Thursday that they will oppose every United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) measure on alleged Israeli violation of Palestinian human rights in the West Bank and Gaza under discriminatory Agenda Item 7. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in an op-ed published in the Jewish Chronicle that, “Two years...

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A veteran British lawmaker has blasted the Palestinian Authority (PA) in an op-ed published in The Times of Israel on Wednesday for teaching a curriculum in internationally funded, PA-operated schools “which incites hatred, glorifies violence and promotes terror.” Dame Louise Ellman, a Labour MP and vice-chair of the Labour Friends...

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The British government has confirmed it will undertake a substantial review of Palestinian school textbooks amid concerns that aid money is funding a curriculum that is inciting violence against Jews and Israelis, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The Department for International Development (DFID) said it had “successfully pushed” for the...

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As the effects of Western sanctions take effect, the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah, has reached out to its supporters for financial assistance, Reuters reported Friday. “I announce today that the resistance is in need of its (popular base),” Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech last week. The...

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A leading anti-Israel activist in Britain, Asa Winstanley, has been suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation, in part for describing the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) as an “Israel Embassy proxy.” Winstanley, a member of the Brent North Constituency Labour Party, writes for the notoriously anti-Semitic Electronic Intifada and...

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In an explosive development, Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced Thursday that it had begun proceedings against the Labour Party over its failure to stamp out anti-Semitism in its ranks. The equality watchdog said it has reason to believe that Labour has “unlawfully discriminated against people because of...

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The storm engulfing the British Labour Party intensified after new remarks emerged from Chris Williamson – the MP suspended from the party last week for saying Labour had been “too apologetic” on anti-Semitism — claiming that “dark forces” are using their “power” and “contacts in the media” to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s...

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If there is one lesson the world should have learned from Hezbollah’s 34 years of existence, it is this: Hezbollah has no distinct military and political wings. Now, that false wall has begun to crumble. On February 25, the British government announced its decision to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Britain on Monday for designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety and thanked his British counterpart Theresa May for her country’s leadership in the fight against anti-Semitism, JNS reported. A statement from Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister told May in a...

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